Mario Cravo Neto (Salvador BA 1947 - idem 2009)
Mario Cravo Neto was a photographer, sculptor and draftsman. He received his first instruction in drawing and sculpture from his father, Mario Cravo Júnior. In 1964, he traveled to Berlin with his father, who was taking part in the Artists in Residence program sponsored by the Ford Foundation. There, he came into contact with the Italian artist Emilio Vedova and the photographer Max Jakob. In 1968, he moved to New York and studied at the Art Students League under Jack Krueger, one of the forerunners of conceptual art in the city. During this period, he made the color photo series On the Subway and produced his first acrylic sculptures. He returned to Brazil in 1970. In 1975, he was in a car accident and had to stop working for a year. Afterwards, he devoted himself to studio photography, created installations and developed photographic works on themes related to Candomblé and Catholic religiosity.
His books include Ex-Votos (1986), Salvador (1999), Laróyè (2000), Na Terra sob Meus Pés [On the Earth beneath My Feet] (2003) and O Tigre do Dahomey - A Serpente de Whydah [The Tiger of Dahomey - The Serpent of Whydah] (2004). He received the National Photography Award from the Fundação Nacional de Arte – Funarte in 1996; the Price Waterhouse prize at the Panorama da Arte Brasileira of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo – MAM/SP in 1997; and the award for best photographer of the year from the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte – APCA in 1980, 1995 and 2005.
Critical Commentary
Mario Cravo Neto works most often with black-and-white photography. As the scholar Rubens Fernandes Júnior points out, his photographs show precision in photographic description, recalling the legacy of his earlier work in sculpture. In his works, he uses low light, tight framing and selective focus which, by giving dimension to volumes and exploring different textures, emphasizes the primary aim of each photo. The tactile sensation is another interesting aspect of his work, heightened by the play of light and shadow.
His photography moves through religious and mystical imagery, above all that of Catholicism and Candomblé. For Fernandes Júnior, there is a direct relationship between Cravo Neto's work and that of the photographer and ethnographer Pierre Verger, especially in addressing the spiritual possession of the body. For the Ex-Voto series, the photographer used votive sculptures in carved wood, now held at the Fundação Gregório de Mattos in Salvador. The photographs in the series reveal great sensitivity in the use of light, enhancing the planes, carvings and reliefs of the pieces.
He frequently focuses on fragments of the human body and at times associates them with objects, such as balls or stones, or with animals, giving the image a sense of strangeness and, at times, a ritualistic character. His work, as the critic Casimiro Xavier de Mendonça emphasizes, is neither narrative, nor documentary, nor anthropological. It is the support for a visual investment that seeks to heighten man's relationship with the unknown through unexpected associations, above all the opposition between objects and bodies.
Critiques
"Even though Mario Cravo Neto uses a centered figure against an infinite background, and even though he has worked with unusual angles of the human body - as other artists have also done - his signature has managed to be unmistakable and individual. First, there is a respect for the human being, who gains a sacred space and is not seen merely as an object of seduction. He also recovers a collective memory, by giving simple, everyday people their lost dignity and the pleasure of self-representation. And even in photos of human types he recorded in Salvador, which could have been marked by tropical exoticism, the result deserves closer attention for the rigor with which he chooses his images and the way he measures light and shadow. (...)"
Casimiro Xavier de Mendonça
CRAVO NETO, Mário. Mário Cravo Neto. Salvador: Ada Galeria de Arte, 1991. p. 36.
"Each image, carefully and consciously produced, comes from a complex game played out between the mimesis of the body that experiences and represents, and the explicit legacy of cultural experiences. Mario Cravo Neto prefers to make his portraits according to an avowed aesthetic concept, in which what matters is the tension and restlessness perceived in the constitutive paradigms of his photography. He believes that all creative work has a mystical background, that is, a relationship between man and the unknown, the imponderable, the unforeseeable. The photographs show the diversity of an artist who defined himself in the face of multiple influences. The experience of time can be shown in a variety of ways: at times he is the formalist photographer in search of organicity, at times the photographer who records figuration drawn directly from religious imagery, at times the memorialist photographer trying to preserve the sense of mystical revelation through the allegories of rituals. (...)"
Rubens Fernandes Junior
FERNANDES JUNIOR, Rubens. A fotografia de Mario Cravo Neto é a força pura. In: CRAVO NETO, MARIO. Mário Cravo Neto. Salvador: Aries, 1995. p. 5.
Collections
Museet for Fotokunst - Odense (Dinamarca)
Museum of Fine Arts, The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection - Houston (Estados Unidos)
Museum of Photographic Arts - San Diego (Estados Unidos)
Princeton Art Museum - Princeton (Estados Unidos)
Masp - São Paulo SP
Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdã (Holanda)
Suomen Valokuvataiteen Museo - Helsinki (Finlândia)
Museum of Modern Art - Nova York (Estados Unidos)
Hasselblad Collection - Gotemburgo (Suécia)
Brooklyn Museum - Nova York (Estados Unidos)
Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Center of Photography - Tóquio (Japão)
DG Bank - Frankfurt (Alemanha)
Patricia Philips de Cisneros Collection - Caracas (Venezuela)
MAC/USP - São Paulo SP
MAM/RJ - Rio de Janeiro RJ
MAM/BA - Salvador BA
Museum voor Fotografie - Antuérpia (Bélgica)
MAM/SP - São Paulo SP
Solo Exhibitions
1965 - Salvador BA - Solo, at Galeria Convivium
1971 - Salvador BA - Solo, at MAM/BA
1971 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Documenta
1972 - Paris (France) - Solo, at L'Espace Pierre Cardin
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Grupo B
1972 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Documenta
1973 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Documenta
1974 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at A Galeria
1976 - Munich (Germany) - Solo, at Modern Art Galerie
1977 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Múltipla Galeria de Arte
1980 - Milan (Italy) - Solo, at Galleria Il Diaframma/Canon
1980 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Foto Galeria
1981 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Monica Filgueiras
1981 - São Paulo SP - O Fundo Neutro e Meus Personagens [The Neutral Background and My Characters], at Galeria Fotoptica
1981 - Turin (Italy) - Solo, at Galleria La Parisina
1982 - Washington (United States) - Solo, at Brazilian American Cultural Institute
1983 - Brasília DF - Solo, at ECT Galeria de Arte
1983 - Estoril (Portugal) - Solo, at Casino Estoril
1983 - Milan (Italy) - Solo, at Galleria Il Diaframma/Canon
1983 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Arco Arte Contemporânea
1983 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Masp
1984 - Chiasso (Switzerland) - Solo, at Galerie Fotografia Oltre
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at MAM/RJ
1985 - Milan (Italy) - IF, at Immagine Fotografica
1985 - Seattle (United States) - Solo, at Yuen Lui Gallery
1986 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Arco Arte Contemporânea
1987 - Copenhagen (Denmark) - Solo, at Billedhusets Galleri
1987 - San Francisco (United States) - Solo, at Vision Gallery
1988 - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Het Portret [The Portrait], at Canon Image Center
1988 - Helsinki (Finland) - Solo, at Suomen Valokuvataiteen Museo
1988 - Venice (Italy) - Solo, at Palazzo Fortuny
1989 - Coronel (Mexico) - Solo, at La Galeria Kahlo
1989 - Salvador BA - Solo, at Galeria O Cavalete
1989 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Arco Arte Contemporânea
1990 - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Solo, at Canon Image Center
1990 - Berlin (Germany) - Solo, at Galerie Springer
1991 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Solo, at Galeria del Teatro General San Martín
1991 - New York (United States) - 13 Photographers, at Witkin Gallery
1991 - Salvador BA - Solo, at Ada Galeria
1992 - Houston (United States) - Solo, at Houston FotoFest
1992 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Solo, at Galeria Módulo
1992 - Los Angeles (United States) - Solo, at Fahey/Klein Gallery
1993 - Los Angeles (United States) - Solo, at Fisher Gallery
1993 - San Francisco (United States) - Solo, at Vision Gallery
1993 - Washington (United States) - Solo, at Kathleen Ewing Gallery
1994 - Costa Mesa (United States) - Solo, at Susan Spiritus Gallery
1994 - Frankfurt (Germany) - Solo, at Frankfurter Kunstverein
1994 - Madrid (Spain) - Canto a la Realidad [Song to Reality], at Casa de América
1994 - New York (United States) - Solo, at The Witkin Gallery
1994 - San Diego (United States) - Solo, at Museum of Photographic Art
1995 - Chicago (United States) - Solo, at Catherine Edelman Gallery
1995 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at MAM/RJ
1995 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Masp
1995 - Steyr (Austria) - Solo, at Kunstverein Steyr
1996 - Borås (Sweden) - Solo, at Borås Kunstmuseet
1996 - Braunschweig (Germany) - Solo, at Museum für Photographie
1996 - Curitiba PR - Solo, at Solar do Barão
1996 - Uddevalla (Sweden) - Solo, at Bohusläns Museum
1997 - New York (United States) - Solo, at The Witkin Gallery
1997 - Oldenburg (Germany) - Solo, at Oldenburger Kunstverein
1997 - Scottsdale (United States) - Solo, at Bentley Gallery
1998 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Solo, at Centro Cultural Recoleta
1998 - Los Angeles (United States) - Solo, at Fahey/Klein Gallery
1998 - Madrid (Spain) - Solo, at Photo España 98
1998 - Paris (France) - Solo, at Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
1998 - Salvador BA - Solo, at Galeria Pierre Verger
1999 - Barcelona (Spain) - Solo, at Galeria S-292
1999 - Houston (United States) - Solo, at Sicardi Sanders Gallery
1999 - Salamanca (Spain) - Solo, at Centro de Fotografia da Universidad de Salamanca
1999 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Espaço Neogama
1999 - Valencia (Spain) - Solo, at Galeria Visor
2000 - Cartagena (Spain) - Solo, at Palacio de Aguirre
2000 - Hillerød (Denmark) - Solo, at Nationalhistoriske Museum på Frederiksborg
2000 - New York (United States) - Solo, at Yancey Richardson Gallery
2000 - Salvador BA - Solo, at MAM/BA
2000 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Pinacoteca do Estado
2000 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Múltipla de Arte
2001 - Madrid (Spain) - Solo, at Galeria Buades
2002 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo Venâncio
2002 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Millan - Rua Fradique Coutinho
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Centro Cultural Correios
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
2004 - Salvador BA - Solo, at Paulo Darzé Galeria de Arte
2005 - Salvador BA - O Tigre do Dahomey: A Serpente de Whydah [The Tiger of Dahomey: The Serpent of Whydah], at Paulo Darzé Galeria de Arte
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Arte 21 Galeria
2007 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Bolsa de Arte de Porto Alegre
2008 - Salvador BA - A Flecha em Repouso [The Arrow at Rest], at Paulo Darzé Galeria de Arte
Group Exhibitions
1966 - Salvador BA - 1st National Visual Arts Biennial
1970 - Washington (United States) - Fourteen Latin American Painters, at Andres Bello Auditorium
1971 - Campinas SP - 7th Campinas Contemporary Art Salon
1971 - São Paulo SP - 11th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal - State Governor Prize
1971 - São Paulo SP - 5th Young Contemporary Art Exhibition, at MAC/USP
1972 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Art Systems in Latin America, at Centro de Arte y Comunicación
1972 - Ferrara (Italy) - Art Systems in Latin America, at Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderna
1972 - London (England) - Art Systems in Latin America, at Institute of Contemporary Art
1972 - Paris (France) - Art Systems in Latin America, at L'Espace Pierre Cardin
1972 - São Paulo SP - Art/Brazil/Today: 50 Years Later, at Galeria Collectio
1972 - São Paulo SP - Independence Sesquicentennial Art Show and Brasil Plástica - 72, at Fundação Bienal
1972 - São Paulo SP - Múltiplos Brasileiros [Brazilian Multiples], at Galeria Múltipla de Arte
1972 - São Paulo SP - 4th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1973 - São Paulo SP - 12th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1973 - São Paulo SP - Expo-Projeção 73, at Espaço Grife
1975 - Salvador BA - Bahia Fair
1975 - São Paulo SP - 7th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1976 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Arte Agora I [Art Now I], at MAM/RJ
1976 - São Paulo SP - National Biennial 76, at Fundação Bienal
1977 - São Paulo SP - 14th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1978 - Mexico City (Mexico) - Subterranean Art, Architecture and Objects, at Galeria Juan Martín and at Museo Carrillo Gil
1978 - São Paulo SP - 10th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1978 - São Paulo SP - 1st Show of Furniture and Unusual Objects, at Paço das Artes
1979 - São Paulo SP - Mario Cravo Neto e Pierre Verger [Mario Cravo Neto and Pierre Verger], at Masp
1979 - Salvador BA - Mario Cravo Neto e Pierre Verger [Mario Cravo Neto and Pierre Verger], at Maba
1979 - São Paulo SP - 15th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1980 - Milan (Italy) - Salone Internazionale della Cinematografia, Ottica e Fotografia [International Cinematography, Optics and Photography Show]
1981 - Berlin (Germany) and Zurich (Switzerland) - Fotografie Lateinamerika [Latin American Photography], at Akademie der Künste and at Kunsthaus Zürich
1981 - São Paulo SP - 13th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1982 - Caserta (Italy) - Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia [International Photography Biennial]
1982 - London (England) - Brazilian Photography, Six Contemporaries, at The Photographer's Gallery
1982 - Paris (France) - Brésil des Brésiliens, com Stefania Bril [Brazil of the Brazilians, with Stefania Bril], at Centre Georges Pompidou
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - O Tempo do Olhar - Panorama da Fotografia Brasileira Atual [The Time of the Gaze - Panorama of Current Brazilian Photography], at MNBA
1983 - São Paulo SP - 17th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1983 - São Paulo SP - O Tempo do Olhar - Panorama da Fotografia Brasileira Atual [The Time of the Gaze - Panorama of Current Brazilian Photography], at Masp
1984 - Genoa (Italy) - Fotoamerica/84, Objettivi sull'America Latina [Fotoamerica/84, Lenses on Latin America]
1984 - Paris (France) - Corpo e Alma, Espace Latino-Américain, Mois de la Photo [Body and Soul, Espace Latino-Américain, Mois de la Photo]
1984 - São Paulo SP - Tradition and Rupture: A Synthesis of Brazilian Art and Culture, at Fundação Bienal
1985 - Madrid (Spain) - 50 Years of Color, at Circulo de Bellas Artes
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - A Arte e Seus Materiais: Atitudes Contemporâneas [Art and Its Materials: Contemporary Attitudes], at Funarte. Galeria Sérgio Milliet
1985 - São Paulo SP - 16th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1985 - São Paulo SP - 1st Photography Quadrennial, at MAM/SP
1986 - Brasília DF - Bahians in Brasília, at Casa da Manchete
1986 - Portovenere (Italy) - Object Man
1987 - São Paulo SP - The Fabric of Taste: Another Look at Everyday Life, at Fundação Bienal
1988 - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Het Portret [The Portrait], at Canon Image Center
1988 - Fribourg (Switzerland) - Triennale Internationale de la Photographie - Mois de la Photo: Splendeurs et Misères du Corps [International Photography Triennial - Month of Photography: Splendors and Miseries of the Body], at Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Fribourg
1988 - Havana (Cuba) - 2nd Havana Biennial
1988 - Long Island (United States) - Brazil Projects, at The Institute for Art and Urban Resources
1988 - New York (United States) - Brazil Projects
1988 - Paris (France) - Triennale Internationale de la Photographie - Mois de la Photo: Splendeurs et Misères du Corps [International Photography Triennial - Month of Photography: Splendors and Miseries of the Body], at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1989 - Antwerp (Belgium) - Réalités Magiques, Photographie Latino-Américaine Contemporaine [Magical Realities, Contemporary Latin American Photography], at Museum voor Fotografie
1990 - Rotterdam (Netherlands) - 2nd Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam: Op Position
1990 - Vienna (Austria) - Von der Natur in der Kunst [On Nature in Art], at Messepalast
1991 - Arles (France) - Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie [International Photography Meetings]
1991 - New York (United States) - 13 Photographers, at The Witkin Gallery
1991 - São Paulo SP - 1st Coleção Pirelli/Masp de Fotografias [Pirelli/Masp Photography Collection], at Masp
1992 - Bogotá (Colombia) - Arte América [Art America], at Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango
1992 - Cali (Colombia) - Encuentro de los Mundos [Encounter of the Worlds], at Museu de Arte de Tertúlia
1992 - Curitiba PR - 10th Curitiba City Printmaking Show/America Show, at Museu da Gravura
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Arte Amazonas, at MAM/RJ
1992 - Vigo (Spain) - América Latina, 5ª FotoBienal de Vigo [Latin America, 5th Vigo Photo Biennial]
1992 - Zurich (Switzerland) - Brasilien: Entdeckung und Selbstentdeckung, at Kunsthaus Zürich
1993 - Los Angeles (United States) - Body to Earth, at Fischer Gallery
1994 - Belém PA - 13th Arte Pará Salon, at Fundação Romulo Maiorana
1994 - Brasília DF - Brasília Revisited, at Teatro Nacional. Galeria Athos Bulcão
1994 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Romper los Márgenes, Encuentro de Fotografía Latino-Americano [Breaking the Margins, Latin American Photography Meeting], at Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero
1994 - Curitiba PR - Brasília Revisited, at Museu Metropolitano de Arte
1994 - Houston (United States) - The Eyes Have It, at The Museum of Fine Arts
1994 - London (England) - A hidden view: images of Bahia, Brazil, at Concourse Gallery
1994 - Madrid (Spain) - Canto a la Realidad [Song to Reality], at Casa de América
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasília Revisited, at Palácio Gustavo Capanema
1994 - San Francisco (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Photography: A Selection of Photographs from the Collection of Joaquim Paiva, at Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século XX, at Fundação Bienal
1994 - São Paulo SP - 4th Coleção Pirelli/Masp de Fotografias [Pirelli/Masp Photography Collection], at Masp
1994 - São Paulo SP - Brasília Revisited, at MIS/SP
1995 - Lausanne (Switzerland) - Rio: Mistérios e Fronteiras [Rio: Mysteries and Frontiers], at Musée de Pully
1995 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Contemporary Brazilian Photography, at CCBB
1996 - Bogotá (Colombia) - Imágenes de Brasil. Coleção Pirelli/Masp de Fotografias [Images of Brazil. Pirelli/Masp Photography Collection], at Casa do Brasil
1996 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Imágenes de Brasil. Coleção Pirelli/Masp de Fotografias [Images of Brazil. Pirelli/Masp Photography Collection], at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
1996 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Imágenes de Brasil. Coleção Pirelli/Masp de Fotografias [Images of Brazil. Pirelli/Masp Photography Collection], at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio: Mistérios e Fronteiras [Rio: Mysteries and Frontiers], at MAM/RJ
1996 - Sweden and Austria - Coletivas [Group exhibitions], at Borås Kunstmuseet and at Bohusläns Museum
1997 - Berlin (Germany) - Die Anderen Modernen [The Other Moderns], at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
1997 - New York (United States) - Hope Photographs, at National Arts Club
1997 - São Paulo SP - 25th Panorama of Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1997 - São Paulo SP - Intervals, at Paço das Artes
1997 - São Paulo SP - United Artists: Light, at Casa das Rosas
1998 - Houston (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Photography from The Joaquim Paiva Collection, Pan American Cultural Exchange
1998 - Houston (United States) - Years Ending in Nine, at The Museum of Fine Arts
1998 - Innsbruck (Austria) - The Bird of Self-Knowledge, at Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum Innsbruck
1998 - Niterói RJ - 25th Panorama of Brazilian Art, at MAC/Niterói
1998 - New York (United States) - Male, Wessel + O'Connor Gallery
1998 - New York (United States) - Sur la Tête [On the Head], at The Witkin Gallery
1998 - Recife PE - 25th Panorama of Brazilian Art, at Mamam
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Image of Sound of Caetano Veloso, at Paço Imperial
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Art in the Collection of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo: Recent Donations 1996 - 1998, at CCBB
1998 - Salvador BA - 25th Panorama of Brazilian Art, at MAM/BA
1998 - São Paulo SP - Cohntemporânea, at Galeria Thomas Cohn
1998 - São Paulo SP - Multiples, at Valu Oria Galeria de Arte
1998 - Tokyo (Japan) - The Promise of Photography: the DG Bank Collection, at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
1999 - Hannover (Germany) - The Promise of Photography: the DG Bank Collection, at Kestner-Gesellschaft
1999 - Paris (France) - The Promise of Photography: the DG Bank Collection, at Centre National de la Photographie
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Image of Sound of Chico Buarque, at Paço Imperial
1999 - São Paulo SP - Fotógrafos e Fotoartistas na Coleção do MAM/SP [Photographers and Photo-Artists in the MAM/SP Collection], at Espaço Porto Seguro de Fotografia
1999 - São Paulo SP - Fotógrafos e Fotoartistas na Coleção do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo: fotografia contemporânea brasileira [Photographers and Photo-Artists in the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Collection: Contemporary Brazilian Photography], at Espaço Porto Seguro de Fotografia
1999 - São Paulo SP - Photo99@thomascohn.br, at Galeria Thomas Cohn
1999 - Wolfsburg (Germany) - Brasilianische Fotografie 1946 bis 1998, at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2000 - Berlin (Germany) - The Promise of Photography: the DG Bank Collection, at Akademie der Künste
2000 - Curitiba PR - 12th Curitiba Printmaking Exhibition: Marcas do Corpo, Dobras da Alma [Body Marks, Soul Folds]
2000 - La Paz (Bolivia) - Fotografía Brasileña Contemporánea [Contemporary Brazilian Photography], at Museo Nacional de Arte
2000 - Lyon (France) - 5ème Biennale de Lyon: partage d'exotismes [5th Lyon Biennial: Sharing Exoticisms]
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilianities, at Centro Cultural Light
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Situations: Brazilian Art of the 1970s, at Fundação Casa França-Brasil
2000 - Salvador BA - The Quietness of the Earth: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and Projeto Axé, at MAM/BA
2000 - São Paulo SP - Ars Erótica: Sexo e Erotismo na Arte Brasileira [Ars Erotica: Sex and Eroticism in Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brasil + 500 Rediscovery Exhibition, at Fundação Bienal
2000 - São Paulo SP - Dialogue: Contemporary Art Brazil/Ecuador, at Galeria Marta Traba, Memorial da América Latina
2001 - Frankfurt (Germany) - The Promise of Photography: the DG Bank Collection, at Kunsthalle
2001 - São Paulo SP - Museu de Arte Brasileira: 40 Years, at MAB/Faap
2001 - São Paulo SP - Trajectory of Light in Brazilian Art, at Itaú Cultural
2002 - Brasília DF - Fragments to Their Magnet, at Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo Venâncio
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Andar com Fé... [Walking with Faith...], at Galeria Sesc Copacabana
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Artefoto, at CCBB
2002 - São Paulo SP - Photographs in the Collection of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, at MAM/SP
2002 - São Paulo SP - Os Gêneros da Arte: a natureza-morta na arte contemporânea [The Genres of Art: Still Life in Contemporary Art], at MAM/SP
2002 - São Paulo SP - Visions and Illuminations: Contemporary Brazilian Photography from the Joaquim Paiva Collection, at Oca
2003 - Barcelona (Spain) - Mapas abiertos. Fotografía Latinoamericana 1991-2002 [Open Maps. Latin American Photography 1991-2002], at Palau de la Virreina
2003 - Brasília DF - Artefoto, at CCBB
2003 - Madrid (Spain) - Mapas abiertos. Fotografía Latinoamericana 1991-2002 [Open Maps. Latin American Photography 1991-2002], at Fundación Telefónica
2003 - São Paulo SP - MAC USP 40 Years: Contemporary Interfaces, at MAC/USP
2003 - São Paulo SP - Natureza Morta [Still Life], at Espaço Cultural BM&F
2003 - São Paulo SP - Negras Memórias, Memórias de Negros: o imaginário luso-afro-brasileiro e a herança da escravidão [Black Memories, Memories of Black People: The Luso-Afro-Brazilian Imaginary and the Legacy of Slavery], at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
2003 - São Paulo SP - Tomie Ohtake in the Spiritual Fabric of Brazilian Art, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Tomie Ohtake in the Spiritual Fabric of Brazilian Art, at MNBA
2004 - São Paulo SP - The Price of Seduction: From Corset to Silicone, at Itaú Cultural
Source: Itaú Cultural
