Maria Bonomi (Meina, Itália 1935)
Maria Bonomi is an artist who works as a printmaker, sculptor, painter, muralist, curator, costume designer, set designer and teacher. A naturalized Brazilian after arriving in the country in 1946, she settled in São Paulo, where she began her art studies. In 1951, Bonomi studied painting and drawing with Yolanda Mohalyi, and two years later, in 1953, she continued her training with the painter Karl Plattner. The following year, she began to delve into printmaking with the renowned Lívio Abramo. Her artistic career gained prominence with her first solo exhibition in São Paulo in 1956 and with a scholarship from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, which took her to study at the Pratt Institute Graphics Center in New York. During that period, she also studied printmaking with Hans Müller and art theory with Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University.
On returning to Brazil, Maria Bonomi continued her artistic development, attending Johnny Friedlaender's metal engraving workshop at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ) in 1959. The following year, she founded Estúdio Gravura in São Paulo together with Lívio Abramo, where she worked as his assistant until 1964. During the 1970s, she broadened her artistic horizons by also devoting herself to sculpture, creating important large-scale panels for public spaces. Drawing on her experience as an artist and teacher, Bonomi also made a significant contribution to the academic field, defending in 1999 her doctoral thesis entitled "Arte Pública. Sistema Expressivo/Anterioridade" [Public Art. Expressive System/Anteriority] at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo (ECA/USP).
Her work spans a wide range of expressions, always with a keen eye on Brazil's social and cultural issues. Maria Bonomi has stood out not only as a creator but also as an important educator and curator, with a legacy that runs through both the visual arts and theoretical reflection on public art and its place in society.
Critical Commentary
For Maria Bonomi, working with woodcut is an experience that offers unlimited possibilities for artistic creation. When exhibiting at the 5th Paris Biennial in 1967, where she received the first prize, she fought for prints to be displayed on walls rather than in display cases or vitrines, like pages of books, as was usual at the time. This changed the public's relationship with printmaking, as well as the artist's in the practice of engraving.
The printmaker always deals with issues related to the matrix and the printed image: when working wood or metal, the mark is different from the one obtained on paper. The matrices bear the marks of the artist's relationship with the material, of the impulse and gestures that create the work. For the printmaker Renina Katz (1926), Maria Bonomi reveals in her works some of these fascinating games of the universe of printmaking. In 1972, she presented the Solombras, transparent and colored, molded in polyester from wooden matrices. In 1976, she made the Epigramas [Epigrams], works cast in metal from clay pieces in which she produces lines and grooves, exploring solids and voids and revealing the essence of the printmaker's gesture.
Throughout her career, the artist has insisted on large print runs, which allow the works to reach as many people as possible; to this end she also uses lithography. She innovated by producing in large formats (some works more than two meters wide), showing a desire to give prints greater vigor and aesthetic impact. Another important aspect of her work is the use of color in varied and unexpected tones.
In addition to prints, the artist continues to produce reliefs in concrete or metal, placed in various public spaces in São Paulo, such as the Igreja Mãe do Salvador, the Palácio dos Bandeirantes and the Jardim São Paulo metro station. In these murals, Maria Bonomi draws on her experience as a printmaker, exploring the graphic quality of woodcut grooves. Textures and gesture are transferred to concrete or metal. Questioning the myth of the unique piece, the artist also develops clothing projects (T-shirts, ties, scarves).
Maria Bonomi is an important presence on the Brazilian printmaking scene. In the words of Lívio Abramo: "Vitality, vehemence, passion and formal boldness are the characteristics of the graphic work of this artist, who has been able to convey to her prints the passion of her feelings and the dense expressiveness of formal synthesis".1
Notes
1 Lívio Abramo, texto do catálogo Maria Bonomi Xilograbados Litografia, Centro de Estudos Brasileiros (Asunción, Paraguay), citado em BONOMI, Maria. Xilografias de Maria Bonomi. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1994.
Critiques
"Ornament, a manifestation of composition as rhythm, exposes the artistic emotion in Maria Bonomi. In her research, monumental compositions are conceived, memorials of the groove, which becomes perennial. For it is not the figure that matters, but the rhythmic directions the grooves build. Retaining from Lívio Abramo the maxim that the mark left by each tool is a language, Maria Bonomi develops the rhythmic play of the line-groove, which is light, pulsating light, light that builds. Her very first prints show her interested in the groove, but also in use: at a Paris biennial in the 1960s, she insisted on exhibiting prints on the wall, the place of painting, thereby contradicting the practice of display on tables. Thinking about use, Maria Bonomi questions printmaking as to dimension; however, her rhythmic-geometric composition discusses scale rather than dimension, since, even in prints in small formats, the composition throws the gaze beyond the support.
The groove is the invasion of matter, made palpable by the resistance the printmaker encounters in it and overcomes. It is here that the emotion of printmaking is best grasped: in the grooves, Maria Bonomi declares her emotion of engraving, the matrix being the essence of the printmaker's work, and the print no more than a derivative of the primary action. The matrix can be built in wood as well as in clay or another material. In turn, the matrix can be transferred to the most diverse supports, such as paper, aluminum, polyester and concrete. Going from the table to the wall, and from the wall to the concrete panel, implies use, realized as the socialization of the work, aimed at the passerby. Like those of the woodcuts, the grooves of the matrices reproduced in concrete are intended for a hotel lobby. With slats and ropes, Maria Bonomi builds the grooves of Construção de São Paulo, a print-relief erected in one of the city's metro stations".
Leon Kossovitch e Mayra Laudanna
KOSSOVITCH, Leon; LAUDANNA, Mayra. Gravura no século XX. In: GRAVURA: arte brasileira do século XX. Ricardo Resende. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural: Cosac & Naify, 2000. p. 32.
Testimonials
"One day I walked into an exhibition by Lívio Abramo... It was a revelatory, magical event... I walked into his exhibition and was extremely impressed by it. It was a revelation of that light, that intimacy, those small planes... They were small surfaces of enormous importance... It was as if you were entering infinite landscapes... It was at once enormous and tiny, something of transformation, of magic... I went crazy and went to look for him, to ask to work with him. He said he wasn't giving lessons, that he didn't teach and... , anyway, I started insisting... In the end he told me to show up at his house once a week, and I began going there a lot. (...) Little by little I began these forms, making large boards with plants, with flowers... That was around 1956, when he invited me to an exhibition. (...) At that point things began to move, I was beginning to manage a bit on my own, ending up with a scholarship in New York, at the Pratt Institute, where I worked with a Chinese artist, Seong Moy, and at Columbia University, in a printmaking course with Professor Hans Müller (...) It was this Chinese artist who led me to color, to playing with the possibilities of printing and paper, giving them another value... My image began to grow larger and I managed to work with it as pure language... But it was still Lívio's teaching, his tools (...).
When I returned to Brazil in 1960, Lívio was setting up Estúdio Gravura and immediately called me to work as his assistant. That was six years after I had gone looking for him... In 1964 he left (...).
If you consider that the groove can go onto any support... , paper is not the end either. The print expresses only part of the emotion of printmaking, which is the matrix (...) The same matrix can be printed, it can be transferred to polyester, it can be transferred to concrete... It can be transferred to any support that reproduces the emotion... Because it's not only the white, it's the groove. (...)
Sculpture had come off the pedestal, painting had come off the easel... But prints had to stay on the table!... That was a big fight of mine. (...) And there's the problem of managing to keep the rigor, the spirit of printmaking, in the cut, in the incision, in the emotion... , because otherwise you just start making gigantism... That was my great concern: being able to create for the wall. (...) From the wall I went on to concrete panels because of the social meaning of distribution. Because if I can have a concrete wall on Avenida Paulista, or anywhere else, in a collective space... , I can make many more people sensitive to the groove than if I were simply making a little print..."
Maria Bonomi a Renato P. Dória 1995/1996
DÓRIA, Renato P. A xilogravura em Maria Bonomi e Renina Katz. Revista de História da Arte e Arqueologia. Unicamp, Campinas, n. 2, p. 306-307, 309, 1995.
Solo Exhibitions
1956 - São Paulo SP - Prints and Monographs, at MAM/SP
1958 - New York (United States) - Solo, at Galeria Roland de Aenlle
1971 - Munich (Germany) - Solo, at Galerie Buchholz
1971 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Maria Bonomi: Woodcuts, at MAM/RJ
1972 - São Paulo SP - Módulos Solombras M.S.2., at Galeria Cosme Velho
1975 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Woodcuts: Transamazônia-China, at Galeria Bonino
1975 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1975 - Brasília DF - Woodcuts: Transamazônica-China, at Oscar Seraphico Galeria de Arte
1975 - São Paulo SP - Woodcuts: Transamazônica-China, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1984 - São Paulo SP - Epigrams, at Galeria Múltipla de Arte
1986 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Múltipla de Arte
1990 - Curitiba PR - Excavated Space: Woodcuts by Maria Bonomi, at Centro Cultural Palacete Leão Junior
1994 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Maria Bonomi: Woodcut, at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
1999 - São Paulo SP - Maria Bonomi: Records
2000 - São Paulo SP - Maria Bonomi - Records, at Memorial da América Latina
2000 - Skopje (Iugoslávia) - Solo, at Museum of Contemporary Art
2004 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Centro Universitário Maria Antonia
Group Exhibitions
1952 - São Paulo SP - Group show of Yolanda Mohalyi's students, at Masp
1955 - Neuchâtel (Switzerland) - Arts Primitifs et Modernes Brésiliens, at Musée d'Ethnographie de Neuchâtel
1955 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Pavilhão das Nações - awarded as the youngest exhibitor
1955 - São Paulo SP - 4th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1956 - São Paulo SP - Prints and Monographs, at MAM/SP
1959 - Leverkusen (Germany) - First Group Exhibition of Brazilian Artists in Europe
1959 - Munich (Germany) - First Group Exhibition of Brazilian Artists in Europe, at Kunsthaus
1959 - Paris (France) - 1st Paris Biennale, at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1959 - São Paulo SP - 5th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at MAM/SP - acquisition prize
1959 - Vienna (Austria) - First Group Exhibition of Brazilian Artists in Europe
1959 - Washington (United States) - Pan American Union, at Smithsonian Institution
1960 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 1st Latin American Woodcut Competition
1960 - Mexico City (Mexico) - 2nd Inter-American Biennial of Mexico, at Palácio de Belas Artes
1960 - Hamburg (Germany) - First Group Exhibition of Brazilian Artists in Europe
1960 - Jerusalem (Israel) - 12 Brazilian Artists, at Bezalel Museum Jerusalem
1960 - Tel Aviv (Israel) - 12 Brazilian Artists
1960 - Lisbon (Portugal) - First Group Exhibition of Brazilian Artists in Europe
1960 - Madrid (Spain) - First Group Exhibition of Brazilian Artists in Europe
1960 - Mexico - 2nd Mexico Biennial
1960 - Paris (France) - First Group Exhibition of Brazilian Artists in Europe
1960 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 9th National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1960 - São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at Galeria Prestes Maia - silver medal
1960 - São Paulo SP - Women's Contribution to the Visual Arts in Brazil, at MAM/SP
1960 - Utrecht (Netherlands) - First Group Exhibition of Brazilian Artists in Europe
1960 - Washington (United States) - Pan American Union, at Smithsonian Institution
1961 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - 4th International Printmaking Biennial, at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana
1961 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st The Face and the Work, at Galeria Ibeu Copacabana
1961 - São Paulo SP - 6th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo Sobrinho - acquisition prize
1962 - Tokyo (Japan) - 3rd International Biennial Exhibition of Prints
1963 - São Paulo SP - 7th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal - acquisition prize
1964 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - International Printmaking Biennial
1964 - Tokyo (Japan) - 4th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints
1964 - Venice (Italy) - 32nd Venice Biennale
1965 - Geneva (Switzerland) - Xylon IV International
1965 - São Paulo SP - 8th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal - best national printmaker
1966 - Brasília DF - 3rd Federal District Salon of Modern Art - best national printmaker
1966 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 40 Brazilian and Foreign Prints from the MAC Collection, at Escola de Artes Plásticas de Ribeirão Preto
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Artist and the Machine, at MAM/RJ
1966 - Salvador BA - 1st National Biennial of Visual Arts
1966 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Exhibition of Young National Printmaking, at MAC/USP
1966 - São Paulo SP - 40 Brazilian and Foreign Prints from the MAC Collection, at MAC/USP
1966 - São Paulo SP - The Artist and the Machine, at Masp
1967 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - 7th International Printmaking Biennial, at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana - woodcut prize
1967 - Paris (France) - 5th Paris Biennial - Theodoran Printmaking Prize
1967 - São Paulo SP - 9th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1968 - Belo Horizonte MG - 23rd Belo Horizonte Fine Arts Salon, at MAP - grand prize
1968 - Kraków (Poland) - 2nd International Printmaking Biennial
1968 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - Ljubljana International Exhibition - printmaking prize
1968 - Piracicaba SP - 40 Brazilian and Foreign Prints from the MAC Collection, at Esalq
1968 - São Paulo SP - First São Paulo Opinion Fair, at Teatro Ruth Escobar
1969 - Geneva (Switzerland) - Xylon IV International
1969 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - 8th International Printmaking Biennial, at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana - Prix d'Achat acquisition prize, Xilo Mechanicus
1969 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 18th National Salon of Modern Art
1969 - São Paulo SP - 1st Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1970 - Geneva (Switzerland) - Xylon IV International
1970 - Nuremberg (Germany) - Colloquium über Visuelle Poesie, at Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
1970 - Olinda PE - 40 Brazilian and Foreign Prints from the MAC Collection, at MAC/Olinda
1970 - Penápolis SP - 40 Brazilian and Foreign Prints from the MAC Collection
1970 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Printmaking, at Paço das Artes
1971 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - 9th International Printmaking Biennial, at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana - acquisition prize in woodcut
1971 - Nuremberg (Germany) - Printmaking of the World: The Graphic Work of the Last 25 Years
1971 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP - best national printmaker prize
1972 - Fredrikstad (Norway) - 1st Fredrikstad Print Triennial
1972 - São Paulo SP - 4th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1972 - São Paulo SP - Art/Brazil/Today: 50 Years Later, at Galeria da Collectio
1972 - São Paulo SP - Módulos Solombras M. S. 2, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1972 - Tokyo (Japan) - 8th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints
1972 - Venice (Italy) - 36th Venice Biennale
1973 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - 10th International Printmaking Biennial, at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana
1973 - São Paulo SP - 12th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1974 - São Paulo SP - 6th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1974 - Tokyo (Japan) - International Biennial Exhibition of Prints
1977 - São Paulo SP - 14th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1977 - São Paulo SP - 9th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1978 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 18th Art and Ecological Thought, at Biblioteca Euclides da Cunha
1978 - São Paulo SP - The Biennials and Abstraction: The 1950s, at Museu Lasar Segall
1979 - São Paulo SP - 15th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1980 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Tribute to Mário Pedrosa, at Galeria Jean Boghici
1981 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Group Print Exhibition, at Itaugaleria
1982 - Penápolis SP - 5th Noroeste Visual Arts Salon, at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1983 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - 15th International Printmaking Biennial, at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana
1984 - Curitiba PR - 6th City of Curitiba Printmaking Exhibition. Woodcut in the History of Brazilian Art, at Casa Romário Martins
1984 - Ourinhos SP - Tribute to the Art of Printmaking in Brazil, at Itaugaleria
1984 - Porto Alegre RS - Prints: A Trajectory in Time, at Cambona Centro de Artes
1984 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Brazilian Printmakers of the 1950s/60s, at Galeria Campus-USP-Banespa
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Woodcut in the History of Brazilian Art, at Funarte. Galeria Sérgio Milliet
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Recent Donations 82 - 84, at MNBA
1984 - São Paulo SP - Art in the Street 2
1984 - São Paulo SP - Epigrams: Maria Bonomi, Screens: Haron Cohen, at Múltipla Galeria de Arte
1984 - São Paulo SP - Tradition and Rupture: A Synthesis of Brazilian Art and Culture, at Fundação Bienal
1985 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - 16th International Printmaking Biennial, at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana
1985 - São Paulo SP - 100 Itaú Works, at Masp
1985 - São Paulo SP - Highlights of Brazilian Contemporary Art, at MAM/SP
1986 - Curitiba PR - 7th Collection of the Museu Nacional da Gravura - Casa da Gravura, at Museu Guido Viaro
1986 - Fredrikstad (Norway) - Fredrikstad Print Triennial
1986 - Havana (Cuba) - 2nd Havana Biennial
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Seven Decades of Italian Presence in Brazilian Art, at Paço Imperial
1987 - Campinas SP - 1st International Printmaking Biennial, at MACC
1987 - São Paulo SP - 18th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP - woodcut prize
1988 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Pioneers and Disciples, at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd Geometric Abstraction, at Funarte. Centro de Artes
1988 - São Paulo SP - MAC 25 Years: Recent Acquisitions and Donations, at MAC/USP
1988 - São Paulo SP - Rhythms and Forms: Contemporary Brazilian Art, at Sesc Pompéia
1988 - Tokyo (Japan) - Tokyo Biennial, at Hakone Museum
1989 - Copenhagen (Denmark) - Rhythms and Forms: Contemporary Brazilian Art, at Museu Charlottenborg
1989 - Fredrikstad (Norway) - 9th Fredrikstad Print Triennial, at Municipal Library
1989 - Liubliana (Iugoslávia – atual Eslovênia) - 18th International Printmaking Biennial, at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Printmaking: 4 Themes, at EAV/Parque Lage
1989 - São Paulo SP - 20th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1990 - Curitiba PR - 9th Curitiba City Printmaking Show, at Museu da Gravura
1990 - Paris (France) - Voyage au Monde du Papier au Travers des Biennales Brésiliennes, at Grand Palais
1990 - São Paulo SP - The Multiple in the Vision of Baravelli, Marcello Nitsche, Maria Bonomi, Norberto Nicola, Peticov and Vlavianos, at Múltipla Galeria de Arte
1991 - São Paulo SP - Citizenship: 200 Years of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, at Sesc Pompéia
1991 - São Paulo SP - What Are You Doing Now, Generation 60?: Young Contemporary Art of the 1960s Revisited, at MAC/USP
1991 - São Paulo SP - Records and Impressions: Seminal Artists, at Casa das Rosas
1992 - Curitiba PR - 10th Curitiba City Printmaking Show/Mostra América, at Museu da Gravura
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Art Printmaking in Brazil: A Proposal for a Mapping, at CCBB
1993 - João Pessoa PB - Woodcut: From Cordel to the Gallery, at Funesc
1993 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Exhibition of Italian-Brazilian Artists in São Paulo, at Espaço Cultural Fiat
1993 - São Paulo SP - 3rd International Studio of Image Technologies, at Sesc Pompéia
1993 - São Paulo SP - Works for Illustration of the Suplemento Literário: 1956 - 1967, at MAM/SP
1993 - Washington (United States) - Ultramodern: The Art of Contemporary Brazil, at The National Museum of Women in the Arts
1994 - São José dos Campos SP - 1st São José dos Campos Print Biennial
1994 - São Paulo SP - Flags: 60 Artists Celebrate USP's 60 Years, at MAC/USP
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século XX, at Fundação Bienal
1994 - São Paulo SP - Prints: Subtleties and Mysteries, Printing Techniques, at Pinacoteca do Estado
1994 - São Paulo SP - The New Travelers, at Sesc Pompéia
1994 - São Paulo SP - Poetics of Resistance: Aspects of Brazilian Printmaking, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1994 - São Paulo SP - Woodcut: From Cordel to the Gallery, at Metrô
1995 - Curitiba PR - 11th Curitiba City Printmaking Show, at Fundação Cultural de Curitiba. Solar do Barão
1995 - Liubliana (Eslovênia) - 21st International Printmaking Biennial, at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana
1995 - São Paulo SP - Contact Project, at Galeria Sesc Paulista
1995 - Yokoyama (Japan) - The Hanga: Kanegawa international prints festival
1996 - Belgrado (Iugoslávia) - 4th Graphic Art Biennial, at The Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st Brahma Reciclarte, at Jardim Botânico
1996 - Santo André SP - 24th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal
1996 - São Paulo SP - 4th Studio Unesp Sesc Senai of Image Technologies, at Sesc Pompéia
1996 - São Paulo SP - Contemporary Brazilian Art: Recent Donations/96, at MAM/SP
1996 - São Paulo SP - Flags, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1996 - São Paulo SP - Ex Libris/Home Page, at Paço das Artes
1996 - São Paulo SP - Women Artists in the MAC Collection, at MAC/USP
1996 - São Paulo SP - 1st Off Bienal, at MuBE
1997 - Barra Mansa RJ - Contemporary Lines: Tribute to Brazilian Printmaking, at Centro Universitário de Barra Mansa
1997 - Cadaqués (Spain) - 17th International Mini Print, at Taller Galeria Fort
1997 - Curitiba PR - The Contemporary Art of Printmaking, at Museu Metropolitano de Arte de Curitiba
1997 - Curitiba PR - Curitiba City Printmaking Show
1997 - Ettore Le Donne (Italy) - Postal Art: art-green
1997 - Gabrovo (Bulgária) - 13th Biennial International of Humour and Satire in the Arts
1997 - Irving (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Prints, at University of Dallas. Haggar Art Gallery
1997 - Kagawa (Japan) - 12th International Graphic Art Exhibition, at Sakaide Museum of Art
1997 - Kharkiv (Ucrânia) - 4th Block International of Graphics and Poster
1997 - Liubliana (Eslovênia) - International Printmaking Biennial
1997 - Gabrovo (Bulgária) - Biennial of Humor and Satire
1997 - Cadaqués (Spain) - 17th International Mini Print
1997 - Poland - Triennale 1997 International Print Triennial Society
1997 - Odessa (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Prints, at Gallery at The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
1997 - Plano (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Prints, at Collin County Community College. Spring Creek Art Gallery
1997 - São Paulo SP - Eletromídia da Arte (virtual exhibition on electronic panels)
1997 - Toyama (Japan) - 5th International Poster Triennial
1997 - Wichita Falls (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Prints, at Midwestern State University Art Gallery
1998 - Abilene (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Prints, at Abilene Christian University Shore Art Gallery
1998 - Baton Rouge (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Prints, at Louisiana State University
1998 - Berlin (Germany) - 2nd Panorama of Brazilian Art, at Caco Zanchi Art Gallery
1998 - Campinas SP - The Great Art of Printmaking, at Galeria Croqui
1998 - Mexico City (Mexico) - 11th Ibero-American Art Biennial, at Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
1998 - Jacareí SP - Women Printmakers: A Tribute to Edith Behring, at Vila Cultural - Pátio dos Trilhos
1998 - Aalst (Belgium) - 2nd Panorama of Brazilian Art, at Caco Zanchi Art Gallery
1998 - Maracaibo (Venezuela) - 3rd Bienal Barro de América, at Centro de Arte de Maracaibo Lia Bermúdez
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Graphic Thinking: The Printmaking of Language, at Paço Imperial
1998 - Santo André SP - Reading Bonomi and Aldir Yesterday and Today, at Paço Municipal
1998 - São Paulo SP - The Art of Sculpture at Conjunto Nacional, at Conjunto Nacional
1998 - São Paulo SP - Impressions: The Art of Brazilian Printmaking, at Espaço Cultural Banespa-Paulista
1998 - São Paulo SP - The Collectors - Guita and José Mindlin: Matrices and Prints, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1998 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Bienal do Barro de América: On Essence, 7 Horizons of Man, at Memorial da América Latina
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio Printmaking Exhibition. Armando Sampaio Collection: Brazilian Printmaking, at Centro de Artes Calouste Gulbenkian
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio Printmaking Exhibition. Guita and José Mindlin Collection, at Espaço Cultural dos Correios
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio Printmaking Exhibition. Brazilian Modern Printmaking: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes Collection, at MNBA
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio Printmaking Exhibition. Maria Bonomi and Renina Katz: Recent Prints, at Museu Histórico Nacional
1999 - São Paulo SP - The Resacralization of Art, at Sesc Pompéia
1999 - São Paulo SP - Latin American Visual Arts Yearbook, at Memorial da América Latina
1999 - São Paulo SP - Everyday Life/Art. Consumption - Metamorphosis of Consumption, at Itaú Cultural
1999 - São Paulo SP - United Artists: Journeys of Identities, at Casa das Rosas
2000 - Mexico City (Mexico) - 12th Ibero-American Art Biennial, at Palácio de Bellas Artes de La Ciudad de México
2000 - Colchester (England) - Outros 500: highlights of brazilian contemporary art in UECLAA, at Art Gallery - University of Essex
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Artists' Bardi, at Espaço Cultural dos Correios
2000 - São Paulo SP - Audi Eletromídia de Arte (4th Virtual Exhibition on Electronic Screens)
2000 - São Paulo SP - Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking, at Itaú Cultural
2000 - São Paulo SP - Maria Bonomi, Renina Katz: Validity, at Galeria Múltipla de Arte
2000 - São Paulo SP - The Artists' Bardi, at Memorial da América Latina. Galeria Marta Traba
2000 - São Paulo SP - The Role of Art, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
2001 - Brasília DF - Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking, at Galeria Itaú Cultural
2001 - Penápolis SP - Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking, at Galeria Itaú Cultural
2001 - Porto Alegre RS - Liba and Rubem Knijnik Collection: Contemporary Brazilian Art, at Margs
2001 - Santo André SP - 1st Santo André Print Biennial
2001 - São Paulo SP - 7 APAP Artists, at Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade
2001 - São Paulo SP - Art Today, at Arvani Arte
2001 - São Paulo SP - 4th Bienal Barro de América, at Memorial da América Latina
2001 - São Paulo SP - 10 Poetics, at A Hebraica
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Paths of the Contemporary 1952-2002, at Paço Imperial
2002 - São Paulo SP - Metrópolis Contemporary Art Collection, at Pinacoteca do Estado
2002 - São Paulo SP - Open Opera: Celebration, at Casa das Rosas
2002 - São Paulo SP - Who Makes the Biennials, at Galeria Múltipla de Arte
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Projeto Brazilianart, at Almacén Galeria de Arte
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Caixa Treasures: Brazilian Modern Art in the Caixa Collection, at Conjunto Cultural da Caixa
2003 - São Paulo SP - Printmaking Is Doing Fine, Thank You: Historical and Contemporary Brazilian Printmaking, at Espaço Virgílio
2003 - São Paulo SP - The Woodcut, at Escritório de Arte Augusta 664
2003 - São Paulo SP - Israel and Palestine: Two States for Two Peoples, at Sesc Pompéia
2003 - São Paulo SP - MAC USP 40 Years: Contemporary Interfaces, at MAC/USP
2004 - Campinas SP - Metrópolis Contemporary Art Collection, at Espaço Cultural CPFL
2004 - São Paulo SP - Song of Every Day, at Memorial da América Latina
2004 - São Paulo SP - Grupo Guanabara, at Masp
Source: Itaú Cultural
