Marcos Coelho Benjamim (Nanuque MG 1952)
Sculptor, painter, cartoonist, graphic designer, illustrator, draftsman and set designer.
In 1969, he moved to Belo Horizonte. At school, he began drawing comics on his own and, in 1971, started contributing cartoons and illustrations to newspapers in Minas Gerais. Between 1971 and 1972, through Manfredo de Souzanetto (1947), he met the artists Lotus Lobo (1943) and Noviello (1929) and the collector Gilberto Chateaubriand, who acquired some of his drawings. He took part in the 12th São Paulo International Biennial in 1973. In 1974, he won the travel prize to Mexico at the 2nd Salão Global de Inverno [Global Winter Salon] in Belo Horizonte and, in 1977, the grand prize of the International Cartoon Exhibition in Athens. Also in 1977, he returned to his hometown and stayed there for a year, during which he had the opportunity to make a series of toys from recycled and organic materials for his children. In 1979, he joined a caravan of artists organized by Paulo Laender (1945) to the Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, where he came into contact with various local craftsmen and began to devote himself to creating three-dimensional objects and installations. In 1988, he created the set design for the shows Uakti and Mulheres [Women] by Grupo Corpo, from Belo Horizonte. In 1989, with the invitation to exhibit at the 20th São Paulo International Biennial, he began a phase of producing works on a large scale and in large dimensions.
Critical Commentary
Self-taught, Marcos Coelho Benjamim moved in 1969 from his hometown, Nanuque, Minas Gerais, to Belo Horizonte, where he began producing comics and humorous drawings, which he contributed to various publications. In 1976, he began making watercolors populated by fantastic figures, in which he shows affinities with the work of Marcelo Grassmann (1925 - 2013).
The repetition of rhythms and graphic gestures and a taste for geometry characterize his production. The artist uses discarded materials with rough, worn surfaces, such as old oil cans, wood from construction or demolition leftovers and oxidized metal cones, often framed in wooden boxes. In the early 1990s, he began making large-scale works, such as the delicate pieces with circular, rectangular and trapezoidal forms, which he composes by fixing thin strips of zinc onto wooden supports. Benjamim also creates mosaic pieces with stones taken from the region of São Tomé das Letras, Minas Gerais, sometimes colored with ultramarine blue chalk-line powder pigment. The natural irregularity of the stones adds a tactile value to the work.
For art historian Aracy Amaral, Marcos Coelho Benjamim's work reveals a strong connection with the popular culture of Minas Gerais, in its tradition of handcraft and in the reuse of materials.
Critiques
"(...) the artist particularly values the worn and abandoned object. He makes use of it and, in doing so, breathes life into it again. He adds his work to the work of the craftsman who once took pains to give shape to raw matter with a view to incorporating it into the order of men. Like craftsmen, Benjamim enjoys contact with hardness, with rough surfaces, with the discreet yet immense quality that the textures of things go on whispering to the hands. He knows that the power of the eye runs up against the inability to perceive that things are secret dwellings that can harbor weight as well as lightness, heat as well as cold; they can inspire care or suggest that they will pass unscathed through the flow of time. (...)
Sculpture or painting, the poetic force of these objects by Marcos Benjamim, which waver undecided between these two frontiers, is concentrated in the way he makes matter awaken from its lethargy, in the way he animates it, making it, whether through form or through the treatment given to its surface, refer to the viewer's body while at the same time renewing his imagination."
Agnaldo Farias
FARIAS, Agnaldo. Marcos Coelho Benjamim. In: BENJAMIM, Marcos Coelho. Marcos Coelho Benjamim. Texto Agnaldo Farias; tradução Heloisa Prieto. São Paulo: Galeria São Paulo, 1993. p. 10.
"(...) In his permanent insistence on demystifying the 'aura' of the work of art, of the artistic object, in his constant denial of the presence of theory at the foundation of his creation, lies the root of his authenticity. When he says: I don't make sculpture, I make objects, no, I don't make objects, I make things, he actually wishes to keep his making stripped of the snobbery of uniqueness, conventionally accepted, surrounding contemporary art, even if precarious, as it is today, with ephemeral materials, installations or electronic media. Or he wishes to safeguard the playful making he has practiced since boyhood as a territory free of behavioral rules, keeping it as a compulsive, pleasurable leisure activity. Like his backyard installations, with elements of urban electrical installations, or with the dozens of irregular mold-forms that he transfigures as they are plunged, full of water, onto the earth. Creation/toy, art for Benjamim is invention that gives him back a gratifying joy and meaning in life."
Aracy Amaral
AMARAL, Aracy (Org.). A pedra. In: BENJAMIM, Marcos Coelho. Marcos Coelho Benjamim. Belo Horizonte: C/Arte, 2000. p. 50.
"He brought back from Jequitinhonha old cans, worm-eaten wood, with remnants of layers of paint and varnish, nails, cracks, poverty stuck to the material, but also the beauty that the corrosion of time creates. In reworking this material, making use of what remained in it of human intervention, adding incisions, a drawing, a cut or cutout, Benjamim creates the true Brazilian 'arte povera', takes on our poverty, gives his version of Glauber Rocha's 'aesthetics of hunger'. This refuse collected in Jequitinhonha was his travel account, dramatic and poetic, which the people of Rio could see at the 1980 Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [National Visual Arts Salon], where he received the foreign travel prize."
Frederico Morais
MORAIS, Frederico. A casa do fazer de Marcos Benjamim. In: AMARAL, Aracy (Org.). Marcos Coelho Benjamim. Belo Horizonte: C/Arte, 2000. p. 112.
Testimonials
"An artist gives no solution
to the world
he only looks at it.
Looks and looks.
The artist is the Voyeur of the world."
Marcos Coelho Benjamim
Benjamim, Marcos. Marcos Benjamim: Desenhos, Pinturas e Objetos. Sala Corpo de Exposições. São Paulo, 1 de abril de 1986.
Solo Exhibitions
1976 - Ouro Preto MG - Solo, at Fundação de Arte de Ouro Preto
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG - Signo Plural [Plural Sign], at Galeria de Arte Editora Vega
1981 - Nanuque MG - Saudade 40 Graus [Longing 40 Degrees]
1982 - Curitiba PR - Solo, at Sala Miguel Bakun
1983 - Belo Horizonte MG - A Casa do Fazer [The House of Making], at Galeria IAB
1983 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Itaugaleria
1984 - Belo Horizonte MG - Cenário para a Crucificação do Branco [Setting for the Crucifixion of White], at Itaugaleria
1985 - Vitória ES - Marcos Coelho Benjamim: desenhos, pinturas e esculturas [Marcos Coelho Benjamim: Drawings, Paintings and Sculptures], at Galeria de Arte e Pesquisa da Ufes
1986 - Belo Horizonte MG - Marcos Benjamim: pinturas e objetos [Marcos Benjamim: Paintings and Objects], at Galeria e Escola de Arte Gesto Gráfico
1986 - Belo Horizonte MG - Marcos Coelho Benjamim: objetos [Marcos Coelho Benjamim: Objects], at Sala Corpo de Exposições
1987 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Galeria Manoel Macedo
1987 - Vitória ES - Marcos Coelho Benjamim, at Itaugaleria
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Anna Maria Niemeyer
1990 - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Solo, at Pulitzer Art Gallery
1990 - Goiânia GO - Benjamim: obras recentes [Benjamim: Recent Works], at Galeria Marina Potrich
1991 - Asunción (Paraguay) - Solo, at Centro de Estudos Brasileiros
1993 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Fernando Pedro Escritório de Arte
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Paço Imperial
1993 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria de Arte São Paulo
1994 - Albuquerque (United States) - Solo, at Kathleem Shields Gallery
1994 - Coral Gables (United States) - Solo, at Ambrosino Gallery
1994 - Florida (United States) - Solo, at Ambrosino Gallery
1996 - Nova Lima MG - Solo, at Centro Cultural Jambeiro
1997 - Freiburg (Germany) - Solo, at Galerie Ruta Correa
1997 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
1998 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria de Arte São Paulo
1999 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria de Arte São Paulo
2000 - Recife PE - Marcos Coelho Benjamim: objetos [Marcos Coelho Benjamim: Objects], at Observatório Cultural Malakoff
2001 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
Group Exhibitions
1971 - Belo Horizonte MG - 3º Salão do Artista Plástico Mineiro [3rd Minas Gerais Visual Artist Salon], at Fundação Palácio das Artes
1972 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4º Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea [4th National Contemporary Art Salon], at MAP - acquisition prize
1972 - Belo Horizonte MG - Histórias em Quadrinhos e Comunicação de Massas [Comics and Mass Communication], at MAP
1972 - Curitiba PR - 29º Salão Paranaense [29th Paraná Salon], at Fundação Teatro Guaíra
1973 - Belo Horizonte MG - 1º Salão Global de Inverno [1st Global Winter Salon], at Fundação Palácio das Artes - acquisition prize
1973 - São Paulo SP - 12th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1973 - São Paulo SP - 1º Salão Mackenzie de Humor e Histórias em Quadrinhos [1st Mackenzie Humor and Comics Salon] - grand prize
1974 - Belo Horizonte MG - 2º Salão Global de Inverno [2nd Global Winter Salon], at Fundação Palácio das Artes - foreign travel prize
1974 - Campinas SP - 9º Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas [9th Campinas Contemporary Art Salon], at MACC
1975 - Belo Horizonte MG - 7º Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea [7th National Contemporary Art Salon], at MAP - acquisition prize
1975 - Berlin (Germany) - International Cartoon Exhibition
1975 - Piracicaba SP - 2º Salão Internacional de Humor de Piracicaba [2nd Piracicaba International Humor Salon]
1976 - Athens (Greece) - International Cartoon Exhibition
1976 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4º Salão Global de Inverno [4th Global Winter Salon], at Fundação Palácio das Artes - acquisition prize
1976 - Piracicaba SP - 3º Salão Internacional de Humor de Piracicaba [3rd Piracicaba International Humor Salon] - 3rd prize
1976 - Santos SP - Salão de Arte Jovem [Young Art Salon]
1977 - Athens (Greece) - International Cartoon Exhibition - grand prize
1977 - Belo Horizonte MG - Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand [Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection], at Fundação Palácio das Artes
1977 - Piracicaba SP - 4º Salão Internacional de Humor de Piracicaba [4th Piracicaba International Humor Salon] - acquisition prize
1977 - São Paulo SP - 9º Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira [9th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP
1978 - Belo Horizonte MG - 2º Salão do Futebol [2nd Football Salon]
1980 - Belo Horizonte MG - Artistas Premiados do 3º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [Prizewinners of the 3rd National Visual Arts Salon], at Fundação Palácio das Artes
1980 - Brasília DF - Artistas Premiados do 3º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [Prizewinners of the 3rd National Visual Arts Salon], at Galeria Oswaldo Goeldi
1980 - Curitiba PR - 37º Salão Paranaense [37th Paraná Salon], at Teatro Guaíra
1980 - Curitiba PR - Artistas Premiados do 3º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [Prizewinners of the 3rd National Visual Arts Salon], at Teatro Guaíra
1980 - Porto Alegre RS - Artistas Premiados do 3º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [Prizewinners of the 3rd National Visual Arts Salon], at Margs
1980 - Recife PE - Artistas Premiados do 3º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [Prizewinners of the 3rd National Visual Arts Salon], at Galeria Massangana
1980 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 3º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [3rd National Visual Arts Salon], at MNBA - foreign travel prize
1980 - Salvador BA - Artistas Premiados do 3º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [Prizewinners of the 3rd National Visual Arts Salon], at Solar do Unhão
1980 - São Paulo SP - Artistas Premiados do 3º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [Prizewinners of the 3rd National Visual Arts Salon], at Masp
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4º Salão de Arte do Conselho de Cultura [4th Culture Council Art Salon], at Fundação Palácio das Artes - acquisition prize
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG - Seis Artistas Jovens [Six Young Artists], at MAP
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG and São Paulo SP - 8º Salão Global de Inverno [8th Global Winter Salon], at Fundação Palácio das Artes and at Masp
1981 - Brasília DF - Seis Artistas Jovens [Six Young Artists], at Galeria A
1981 - Curitiba PR - 38º Salão Paranaense [38th Paraná Salon], at Teatro Guaíra
1981 - Recife PE - 34º Salão de Artes Plásticas de Pernambuco [34th Pernambuco Visual Arts Salon], at Museu do Estado de Pernambuco
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [4th National Visual Arts Salon], at Funarte
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8º Salão Global de Inverno [8th Global Winter Salon], at MAM/RJ
1981 - São Paulo SP - 8º Salão Global de Inverno [8th Global Winter Salon], at Masp
1982 - Belo Horizonte MG - 2º Salão do Futebol [2nd Football Salon]
1982 - Belo Horizonte MG - Iluminações [Illuminations], at Fundação Palácio das Artes
1982 - Belo Horizonte MG - Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Belo Horizonte [Belo Horizonte National Contemporary Art Salon], at MAP
1982 - Brasília DF - Três Aspectos da Arte Mineira Atual [Three Aspects of Current Minas Gerais Art]
1982 - Curitiba PR - 39º Salão Paranaense [39th Paraná Salon], at Fundação Teatro Guaíra
1982 - Curitiba PR - Três Aspectos da Arte Mineira Atual [Three Aspects of Current Minas Gerais Art], at Fundação Teatro Guaíra
1982 - Penápolis SP - Salão de Artes Plásticas da Noroeste [Noroeste Visual Arts Salon], at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1983 - Belo Horizonte MG - Precariedade e Criação [Precariousness and Creation], at MAP
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [6th National Visual Arts Salon], at MAM/RJ
1984 - Belo Horizonte MG - 1º Salão de Artes Visuais da Fundação Clóvis Salgado [1st Fundação Clóvis Salgado Visual Arts Salon] - grand prize
1984 - Belo Horizonte MG - Cenário para a Crucificação do Branco [Setting for the Crucifixion of White], at Itaugaleria
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Coletiva [Group Show], at Galeria Espaço Alternativo da Funarte
1984 - São Paulo SP - Dez Artistas Mineiros [Ten Minas Gerais Artists], at MAC/USP
1985 - Berlin (Germany) - Trienale der Zeichnung [Drawing Triennial]
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Velha Mania: desenho brasileiro [Old Habit: Brazilian Drawing], at EAV/Parque Lage
1985 - Vitória ES - Desenho em Minas [Drawing in Minas Gerais], at Ufes
1986 - Brasília DF - 4 Artistas Mineiros [4 Minas Gerais Artists], at Itaugaleria
1986 - São Paulo SP - Seleção Helena Rubinstein de Arte Jovem [Helena Rubinstein Young Art Selection], at Masp
1987 - Belo Horizonte MG - Esse Obscuro Objeto do Desejo [That Obscure Object of Desire], at Itaugaleria
1987 - Brasília DF - Casa de Gravura Largo do Ó: desenhos e gravuras [Casa de Gravura Largo do Ó: Drawings and Prints], at Embaixada da França
1987 - Paris (France) - Première Sélection de l'Art Jeune Brésilien [First Selection of Young Brazilian Art], at Maison de l'Amérique Latine
1987 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 12º Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto [12th Ribeirão Preto Art Salon] - sculpture prize
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Ao Colecionador: homenagem a Gilberto Chateaubriand [To the Collector: Tribute to Gilberto Chateaubriand], at MAM/RJ
1987 - São Paulo SP - Trabalhando com o Suporte: pintura, recorte e objeto [Working with the Support: Painting, Cutout and Object], at Documenta Galeria de Arte
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Projeto Macunaíma [Macunaíma Project], at Funarte
1989 - São Paulo SP - 20th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal - acquisition prize
1991 - Belo Horizonte MG - BR/80. Pintura Brasil Década 80 [BR/80: Brazilian Painting of the 1980s], at Itaugaleria
1991 - São Paulo SP - 21st São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1991 - São Paulo SP - 22º Panorama da Arte Atual Brasileira [22nd Panorama of Current Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP
1992 - Belo Horizonte MG - Ícones da Utopia [Icons of Utopia], at Fundação Palácio das Artes
1992 - Campinas SP - Premiados nos Salões de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas [Prizewinners of the Campinas Contemporary Art Salons], at MACC
1992 - Kassel (Germany) - Begegnung mit den Anderen [Encounter with the Others], at Kassel Universität
1992 - New York (United States) - Contemporary Art from Brazil, at Ledisflan Gallery
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Contemporary Art, at EAV/Parque Lage
1993 - Belém PA - 2º Salão Paraense de Arte Contemporânea [2nd Pará Contemporary Art Salon]
1993 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4 X Minas, at Palácio das Artes
1993 - Brasília DF - Um Olhar sobre Joseph Beuys [A Look at Joseph Beuys], at Fundação Athos Bulcão
1993 - Guadalajara (Mexico) - Diálogo del Siete Puntos [Seven-Point Dialogue]
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4 X Minas, at MAM/RJ
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Arte Erótica [Erotic Art], at MAM/RJ
1993 - Salvador BA - 4 X Minas, at MAM/BA
1993 - Santos SP - 4ª Bienal Nacional de Santos [4th Santos National Biennial], at Centro Cultural Patrícia Galvão
1993 - São Paulo SP - 4 X Minas, at Masp
1993 - São Paulo SP - O Desenho Moderno no Brasil: Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand [Modern Drawing in Brazil: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection], at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1994 - Curitiba PR - 10ª Mostra do Desenho Brasileiro [10th Brazilian Drawing Exhibition], at MAC/PR
1994 - Juiz de Fora MG - América [America], at UFJF
1994 - Ouro Preto MG - A Identidade Virtual [The Virtual Identity], at Museu da Inconfidência
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - O Desenho Moderno no Brasil: Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand [Modern Drawing in Brazil: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection], at MAM/RJ
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século XX [20th-Century Brazil Biennial], at Fundação Bienal
1995 - Johannesburg (South Africa) - Bienal de Johannesburgo [Johannesburg Biennale]
1995 - Lausanne (Switzerland) - Mystères et Frontières [Mysteries and Frontiers], at Musée de Pully
1996 - Belo Horizonte MG - É um Menino: esses dias de Natal [It's a Boy: These Christmas Days], at Companhia de Energia de Minas Gerais. Espaço Cultural Galeria de Arte
1996 - Brasília DF - Arte e Espaço Urbano: quinze propostas [Art and Urban Space: Fifteen Proposals], at Ministério das Relações Exteriores. Itamaraty
1996 - London (England) - ELMS Lesters Painting Rooms
1996 - Madrid (Spain) - Cinco Artistas Mineiros [Five Minas Gerais Artists], at Casa de América
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio: mistérios e fronteiras [Rio: Mysteries and Frontiers], at MAM/RJ
1997 - Belo Horizonte MG - Cinco Artistas Mineiros [Five Minas Gerais Artists], at Espaço de Exposições Ponteio Lar Shopping
1997 - Berlin (Germany) - Die Anderen Modernen [The Other Moderns], at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
1997 - Ouro Preto MG - Experiências e Perspectivas: 12 visões contemporâneas [Experiences and Perspectives: 12 Contemporary Visions], at Museu Casa dos Contos
1997 - Porto Alegre RS - 1ª Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul [1st Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial], at Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana; DC Navegantes; Edel; Usina do Gasômetro; Instituto de Artes da UFRGS; Fundação Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul; Margs; Espaço Ulbra; Museu de Comunicação Social; Reitoria da UFRGS and Theatro São Pedro
1997 - Porto Alegre RS - Imaginário Objetual [Object Imaginary], at Oficinas do Deprec; Depósito da Marinha; Parque da Marinha do Brasil
1997 - São Paulo SP - Arte Cidade: a cidade e suas histórias [Arte Cidade: The City and Its Stories]
1997 - São Paulo SP - Diversidade da Escultura Contemporânea Brasileira [Diversity of Contemporary Brazilian Sculpture], on Avenida Paulista - organized by Ministério da Cultura/Itaú Cultural
1997 - São Paulo SP - Tridimensionalidade na Arte Brasileira do Século XX [Three-Dimensionality in 20th-Century Brazilian Art], at Itaú Cultural
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - Emmanuel Nassar, Leda Catunda, Marcos Benjamim, at Kolams Galeria de Arte
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - Tridimensionalidade na Arte Brasileira do Século XX [Three-Dimensionality in 20th-Century Brazilian Art], at Itaú Cultural
1998 - Brasília DF - Tridimensionalidade na Arte Brasileira do Século XX [Three-Dimensionality in 20th-Century Brazilian Art], at Itaugaleria
1998 - Goiânia GO - Os Anos 80 [The 1980s], at Galeria de Arte Marina Potrich
1998 - Niterói RJ - Espelho da Bienal [Mirror of the Biennial], at MAC/Niterói
1998 - Penápolis SP - Tridimensionalidade na Arte Brasileira do Século XX [Three-Dimensionality in 20th-Century Brazilian Art], at Galeria Itaú Cultural
1998 - São Paulo SP - O Moderno e o Contemporâneo na Arte Brasileira: Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand - MAM/RJ [The Modern and the Contemporary in Brazilian Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection - MAM/RJ], at Masp
1999 - Bogotá (Colombia) - De Brasil: alquimias y procesos [From Brazil: Alchemies and Processes], at Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango
1999 - São Paulo SP - Marcos Benjamim, Fernando Lucchesi, Marco Túlio Resende, at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
2000 - Belo Horizonte MG - Ars Brasilis, at Galeria de Arte do Minas Tênis Clube
2000 - Belo Horizonte MG - Belo Horizonte-Leiria: um encontro de culturas [Belo Horizonte-Leiria: An Encounter of Cultures], at Fundação Clóvis Salgado
2000 - Belo Horizonte MG - Bravas Gentes Brasileiras [Brave Brazilian Peoples], at Fundação Palácio das Artes
2000 - Belo Horizonte MG - Presente de Reis [Epiphany Gift], at Kolams Galeria de Arte
2000 - Leiria (Portugal) - Belo Horizonte-Leiria: um encontro de culturas [Belo Horizonte-Leiria: An Encounter of Cultures], at Galeria 57
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brasil + 500. Arte Contemporânea [Brazil + 500. Contemporary Art], at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Século 20: arte do Brasil [20th Century: Art of Brazil], at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasilidades [Brazilianities], at Centro Cultural Light
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brasil + 500 Mostra do Redescobrimento. Arte Contemporânea [Brazil + 500 Rediscovery Exhibition. Contemporary Art], at Fundação Bienal
2000 - São Paulo SP - Cá entre Nós [Just Between Us], at Paço das Artes
2000 - São Paulo SP - Cerâmica Brasileira: construção de uma linguagem [Brazilian Ceramics: Construction of a Language], at Centro Brasileiro Britânico
2000 - São Paulo SP - Marcos Coelho Benjamim, José Bento e Fernando Lucchesi [Marcos Coelho Benjamim, José Bento and Fernando Lucchesi], at MuBE
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - A Imagem do Som de Antônio Carlos Jobim [The Image of the Sound of Antônio Carlos Jobim], at Paço Imperial
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Espelho Cego: seleções de uma coleção contemporânea [Blind Mirror: Selections from a Contemporary Collection], at Paço Imperial
2001 - São Paulo SP - Espelho Cego: seleções de uma coleção contemporânea [Blind Mirror: Selections from a Contemporary Collection], at MAM/SP
2001 - São Paulo SP - Trajetória da Luz na Arte Brasileira [Trajectory of Light in Brazilian Art], at Itaú Cultural
2002 - Fortaleza CE - Ceará Redescobre o Brasil [Ceará Rediscovers Brazil], at Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura
2002 - Niterói RJ - Diálogo, Antagonismo e Replicação na Coleção Sattamini [Dialogue, Antagonism and Replication in the Sattamini Collection], at MAC/Niterói
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - A Imagem do Som do Rock Pop Brasil [The Image of the Sound of Brazilian Pop Rock], at Paço Imperial
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Caminhos do Contemporâneo 1952-2002 [Paths of the Contemporary 1952-2002], at Paço Imperial
2002 - São Paulo SP - 10 Anos Marília Razuk [10 Years of Marília Razuk], at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
2002 - São Paulo SP - Mapa do Agora: arte brasileira recente na Coleção João Sattamini do Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói [Map of Now: Recent Brazilian Art in the João Sattamini Collection of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói], at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
2002 - São Paulo SP - Pop Brasil: a arte popular e o popular na arte [Pop Brazil: Popular Art and the Popular in Art], at CCBB
2003 - Petrópolis RJ - Via BR 040 - longo trecho em aclive [Via BR 040 - Long Uphill Stretch], at Museu Imperial
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Desenho Anos 70 [Drawing in the 1970s], at MAM/SP
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Projeto Brazilianart [Brazilianart Project], at Almacén Galeria de Arte
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Tesouros da Caixa: arte moderna brasileira no acervo da Caixa [Caixa Treasures: Brazilian Modern Art in the Caixa Collection], at Conjunto Cultural da Caixa
2003 - São Paulo SP - Coletiva Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte [Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte Group Show], at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
2003 - São Paulo SP - MAC USP 40 Anos: interfaces contemporâneas [MAC USP 40 Years: Contemporary Interfaces], at MAC/USP
2003 - Vila Velha ES - O Sal da Terra [The Salt of the Earth], at Museu Vale do Rio Doce
Source: Itaú Cultural
