Regina Vater (Rio de Janeiro RJ 1943)
Intermedia artist, illustrator, draftswoman, painter and photographer.
Regina Maria da Motta Vater studied drawing and painting at the studio of Frank Schaeffer (1917 - 2008) from 1958 to 1962, and with Iberê Camargo (1914 - 1994) from 1962 to 1965, in Rio de Janeiro. In the early 1960s, she entered the Faculdade Nacional de Arquitetura, now the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - FAU/UFRJ, where she remained until 1964, when she interrupted her studies. That year, she held her first solo exhibition, at Galeria Alpendre, in Rio de Janeiro. In the early 1970s, she moved to São Paulo and worked as assistant art director at the advertising agencies DPZ and MPM. In 1972, she won the foreign travel prize awarded by the União Nacional de Arte Moderna and went to New York for the first time, where she was in contact and worked with Hélio Oiticica (1937 - 1980). She studied silkscreen at the Pratt Institute. She lived in Paris from June 1974 to February 1975. She held a solo exhibition in New York, at the Bleeker Cinema Gallery, in 1975 and, back in Brazil, took a Super-8 film course at Escola Griffe, in São Paulo. She is the author, among others, of the children's books Tungo Tungo and Uma Amizade Bem Temperada [A Well-Seasoned Friendship], published in the late 1970s. She organized the first exhibition of Brazilian contemporary and experimental art in New York: Contemporary Brazilian Works on Paper: 49 artists, at Nobé Gallery, in 1979. As a Guggenheim Foundation fellow, she returned to New York in 1980 to develop research on installations, begun in 1970. In 1983, she edited an issue of the magazine Flue, published by Franklin Furnace Archives, devoted to experimental art produced in Latin America. Three years later, she went to live in Austin, United States, with her husband, the artist Bill Lundberg (1942). In 1998, as part of the ArtPace Foundation artist-in-residence program in San Antonio, United States, she created five installations, which she exhibited there the following year. In 2000, she gave a lecture on the exhibition Blurring the Boundaries at the Blanton Museum, in Austin. She curated the exhibition Brazilian Visual Poetry, with 51 participating artists, at the Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, 2002.
Critical Commentary
Regina Vater initially devoted herself to painting and drawing, and in the 1970s began working in different media. In 1978, she began photographically documenting the presence of the plant Dieffenbachia picta Schott (Comigo-ninguém-pode, or dumb cane) at the entrances of homes and shops, a work arising from research on popular culture. Later, she acquired ID photos of people of widely varied ages and social backgrounds. The material collected led to the installation Comigo-Ninguém-Pode, 1988, the first of a series that lasted until 1995.
Her output includes videos, mail art, artist's books and visual poetry. One of her most constant themes is the reworking of elements of Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous culture, as in the installations Retrotempo and Orora, both from 1995, or Cosmologies, 1999. Camões' Feast [O Festim de Camões], 2002, is an installation based on the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões, in which Regina Vater establishes relationships between art and poetry, presenting a selection of poems by Brazilian authors.
Critiques
"One of the characteristics of Regina Vater's artistic adventure is the transmedia impulse of her creativity. Between nature and technology, drawing and texture, visual arts and poetry, craft and video, she evokes the lineage of transgressive artists such as Duchamp or Cage. Like them, Regina is always, healthily, 'out of place'. A genuine 'outsider', she is both inside and outside ART - a concept she re-cons/de/tructed in an exhibition at the end of the 70s, assembling and disassembling the word, from three-dimensional pregnance to handmade embroidery, from scribbling on the beach to video art, until arriving at the empty landscape that projects the word binocularly within the eye's reach, to eyegraph the world with free eyes. Thou Art... This strategy naturally led her to favor installation, an environment that favors movement between the static and the kinetic, looking and walking, the artificial and the natural. Poetry has always inspired her, suggesting 'imaginary landscapes' drawn from the visionary Brazilian poet Souzândrade (1832 - 1902), who, in New York, a century ago, pre-Poundianly caught the cries of usury in the stanzas of 'Inferno de Wall Street' [The Wall Street Inferno]. Ezra Pound saw in Arnaut Daniel the prototype of the artist-inventor. That is precisely why the Brazilian concrete poets, of the generation before Regina's, chose them - Pound and Arnaut, fused in the Provençal riddle-word 'noigandres' - as paradigms of the countercurrent of visual poetics in this century. But in its list of 'impossibilia' (I knead the air, I hunt the hare with an ox, I swim against the tide), the troubadour verses Regina chose as one of her 'mottos', linked to the Poundian theme of usury, seem to define not only the obstinacy of the artist-inventor with her non-commercial art. They also hint at another utopian reason that nourishes artists like her, whose creative provocations bet on the generous idea that in some placeless place it will still be possible, against the tide of predatory egology, to reconcile ecology and technology, the animal and the soul, video and life."
Augusto de Campos
CAMPOS, Augusto de. [Texto de apresentação]. In: VOICES and visions. Austin: Mexic-Arte Museum, 1997. [Texto escrito em 1996].
"'Camões' Feast' celebrates a myth from the history of Portuguese literature and the special importance of poetry in Brazilian culture. Anyone who has been to Brazil must have noticed that poems are commonly published in major newspapers and that poetry has its place in popular culture through cordel booklets, with their woodcut covers - in a way never seen in other countries. Regina's installation - a symbolic tableau representing Camões's famous banquet, in which each plate, when turned face up, revealed one of his poems - evokes the enchantment of discovering the ordinary raised to the level of art. In Regina's version, each plate contains a poem by a contemporary Brazilian poet, feeding our thoughts as well as providing the visual content of the installation.
Regina Vater has been exploring the art of installation in very diverse forms, having produced more than 100 installations since 1970. She has also been a prodigious creator of visual poetry. It runs in the family. Her great-great-grandfather, Odorico Mendes, was the first translator of Homer into Brazilian Portuguese, as well as a highly respected poet. This work by Regina integrates the written word into her visual and physical structures. The installation's visual keys, the laurel leaves, the black plates, the roses, evoke levels of subjective meaning that go beyond literal references. And we are invited to feast on the thoughts of these famous Brazilian poets and travel the paths of our own associations."
Bill Lundberg
LUNDBERG, Bill. O espírito da festa. In: VATER, Regina. Camões' Feast. Austin, 2002. Disponível em: http://www.imediata.com/BVP/CAMOES/index.html. Acesso em: 15 de abr. 2003.
"It is interesting to note how Time and Space have always been a central and constant theme in the artist's work, in her personal investigations and in her art, leading her first to research and study the myths of the Amazon and then other Brazilian and world cosmologies. Through her work, the artist constantly reminds us how much the contemporary world needs the knowledge contained in these cosmologies. For the artist, cosmologies are the true repositories of ancient wisdom, a priceless source that broadens the horizon of our souls. The knowledge transmitted by these mythologies revealed to the artist the importance of a spiritual vision in which human beings are an integral part of nature, and not an external entity destined to subjugate it at will. As a result of her investigations into time and space, and her research on ancient mythologies and cosmologies, Regina Vater understood the importance of embracing ecology as one of her main concerns and artistic themes. Indeed, she is credited with being one of the first artists to deal with ecology, having taken part in the first and most important international event to address the subject: the 1976 Venice Biennale.
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In the artist's own words: 'My work has to do with ideas, with poetry and with a shamanic way of approaching art. For me, any kind of art, even unconsciously, is a process of contact with the creative and regenerative forces of the universe.'
As one among the many admirers of her work, I can only conclude by noting that, in the current context of so much terminal art and attitudes, Regina Vater has all my gratitude for sharing her provocative ideas and the talents she received, helping to create an Art that captivates us through its power of organic inclusion in the web of life."
Mario S. Mieli
MIELI, Mario S. "Cascavida" ou a arte como experiência da consciência. In: VATER, Regina. Shellife. Austin: Women & Their Work Gallery, 2003. [Texto escrito em Nova York, em 2003].
Testimonials
"Art should be treated by the media more as a way of thinking than as mere entertainment. This hidden face of artistic discourse should be emphasized much more than the ineffability of formats and forms.
(...)
Art should arise more from the experimentation intrinsic to artistic making than from the tyranny of certain critics and galleries."
Regina Vater
VATER, Regina. Notes of Ambition. High Performance Magazine, n. 41-42, p. 71, Spring Summer 1988.
"When art is philosophical and poetic, it can play a significant role in helping to restore our lost connections with nature. I believe that an art devoted to ecology should be able to awaken in the viewer a sense of wonder at the sacredness of nature.
This is what I try to convey when I create. I feel that mythology, with all its metaphorical and poetic images of nature, is a fantastic source of inspiration because it has the gift of touching people on a very deep psychological level.
The fact that I was born, raised and culturally formed in Brazil, naturally surrounded by the influences of Indigenous and African traditions, has allowed me to see these traditions as some of the last powerful sources in the West that make possible a mythical and metaphysical approach to nature. The pristine quality of nature is the basis of all the rituals of both African and Indigenous culture, because for their followers it is in the bosom of nature that the sacred cosmic forces reside and interact.
My installations, photos, videos and works in other media are frequently connected with these veins of thought and poetry. This connection is a form of reverence for ancient wisdom, so arrogantly ignored and trampled under past and present Eurocentric domination."
Regina Vater
VATER, Regina. The poetic and mythological crossroads of ecological art. Art Journal, New York, v. 51, n. 2, p. 25, Summer 1992.
Collections
Austin Museum of Arts - Austin (United States)
Bibliothèque Nationale - Paris (France)
Blanton Museum of the University of Texas at Austin - Austin (United States)
Coleção de Vídeo da Biblioteca Municipal - Salvador BA
Coleção Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo - MAC/USP - São Paulo SP
Coleção Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo - MAM/SP - São Paulo SP
Coleção Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro - MAM/RJ - Rio de Janeiro RJ
Franklin Furnace Museum - New York (United States)
Mexic-Arte Museum - Austin (United States)
Museu da Imagem e do Som - MIS/RJ - Rio de Janeiro RJ
Museu da Imagem e do Som - MIS/SP - São Paulo SP
Museu de Arte Brasileira - MAB/Faap - São Paulo SP
Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina - Masc - Florianópolis SC
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes - MNBA - Rio de Janeiro RJ
Museum of Modern Art - New York (United States)
San Antonio Museum of Art - San Antonio (United States)
Southeast Museum of Photography - Daytona Beach (United States)
The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry - Miami Beach (United States)
Video Annex/Long Beach Museum of Art - California (United States)
Solo Exhibitions
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Alpendre
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Piccola Galeria, Instituto Italiano de Cultura
1968 - London (England) - Solo, at Damarco Gallery
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Petite Galerie
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Delaparra
1973 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Grupo-B
1973 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Ars Mobile
1974 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Solo, at Galeria Ar-Co
1975 - New Orleans (United States) - Solo, at Loyola University Gallery
1975 - New York (United States) - Tracks and Traces, at Bleeker Cinema Gallery
1975 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Solo, at Centro de Arte y Comunicación - CAYC
1976 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at MAM/RJ
1976 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Gabinete de Artes Gráficas
1976 - São Paulo SP - Restos da Paisagem [Remains of the Landscape], at MAB/Faap
1977 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Solo, at Centro de Arte y Comunicación - CAYC
1977 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Solo, at Galeria Arte Multiple
1977 - New York (United States) - Solo, at Galeria C-Space
1977 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at MAB/Faap
1978 - São Paulo SP - Veart, at Galeria Arte Global
1981 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Álbum
1981 - New York (United States) - Solo, at Eugenia Cucalon Gallery
1982 - New York (United States) - Solo, at Parallel Window, Chelsea
1985 - Austin (United States) - Black Installation for Silver Turtles, at The University of Texas at Austin. Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
1986 - Austin (United States) - Solo, at Blanton Museum
1986 - Chicago (United States) - Comigo Ninguém Pode [Dumb Cane], at Artist Book Works
1989 - Austin (United States) - Solo, at Women & Their Work Gallery
1989 - Rosendale (United States) - Solo, at Women Studio Workshop
1992 - New York (United States) - Green, at The Donnell Library Center
1992 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Paulo Figueiredo
1993 - Daytona Beach (United States) - Solo, at Southeast Museum of Photography
1993 - San Antonio (United States) - Solo, at Carrington/Gallagher, Ltd. Fine Art
1995 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Retrotempo [Retrotime], at Ibeu Copacabana
1995 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Retrotempo [Retrotime], at Ibeu Madureira
1995 - São Paulo SP - Comigo Ninguém Pode [Dumb Cane], at Galeria Sesc Paulista
1997 - Austin (United States) - Curandarte, at Women & Their Work Gallery
1999 - San Antonio (United States) - Solo, at ArtPace Foundation
2000 - Natal RN - Solo, at Centro de Cultura da UFRN
2003 - Austin (United States) - Sounds Good, at Book People
2003 - Austin (United States) - Shellife, at Women & Their Work Gallery
2003 - Fortaleza CE - A Arte como Processo Xamânico [Art as a Shamanic Process], at Museu de Arte Contemporânea
2007 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Cultivare, at Centro Cultural Oduvaldo Vianna Filho - Castelinho do Flamengo
Group Exhibitions
1961 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Salão dos Novos da Petite Galerie [Petite Galerie New Artists Salon], at Copacabana Palace
1961 - São Paulo SP - Mostra 11 do Rio [11 from Rio Show], at Masp
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 12th National Salon of Modern Art
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 14th National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Semana de Arte Contemporânea [Contemporary Art Week], at PUC/RJ
1966 - Belo Horizonte MG - 21st Belo Horizonte City Fine Arts Salon, at MAP
1966 - Brasília DF - 3rd Federal District Salon of Modern Art
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 15th National Salon of Modern Art
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st Salão de Abril [April Salon], at MAM/RJ
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Air France Salon, at MAM/RJ
1966 - Salvador BA - 1st National Visual Arts Biennial
1967 - Campinas SP - 3rd Campinas Contemporary Art Salon, at MACC - acquisition prize
1967 - Ouro Preto MG - 1st National Brazilian Drawing Salon - 1st prize
1967 - Paris (France) - 5th Biennale des Jeunes
1967 - Petrópolis RJ - 1st National Young Painting Salon, at Hotel Quitandinha - award winner
1967 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 16th National Salon of Modern Art
1967 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 3º O Rosto e a Obra [3rd The Face and the Work], at Galeria Ibeu Copacabana
1967 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Representantes do Brasil na Bienal dos Jovens de Paris [Brazil's Representatives at the Paris Biennale des Jeunes], at Galeria Bonino
1967 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Young Painting Salon, at Piccola Galeria - drawing prize
1967 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Salão das Caixas [Salon of Boxes], at Petite Galerie - acquisition prize
1967 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - National Young Painting Salon - 1st prize in drawing
1967 - São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1967 - São Paulo SP - 1st Young Contemporary Art, at MAC/USP
1968 - Campinas SP - 4th Campinas Contemporary Art Salon, at MACC
1968 - Lima (Peru) - Lima Biennial
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 17th National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1969 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 18th National Salon of Modern Art
1969 - São Paulo SP - 10th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1970 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 19th National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1970 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Group show, at Galeria do Ibeu
1970 - São Paulo SP - Jovem Desenho Contemporâneo [Young Contemporary Drawing], at MAC/USP
1971 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 20th National Salon of Modern Art - domestic travel prize
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 21st National Salon of Modern Art - foreign travel prize
1973 - Belo Horizonte MG - 5th National Contemporary Art Salon, at MAP
1973 - São Paulo SP - 5th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1974 - London (England) - Group show, at Artist Meeting Place
1974 - São Paulo SP - 8th Young Contemporary Art, at MAC/USP
1975 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Fourth International Open Encounter on Video, at Centro de Arte y Comunicación - CAYC
1975 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - The Last International Exhibition of Mail Art' 75
1975 - Lund (Sweden) - Graphicien du Rio de la Plata, at Galerie S. T. Petri - Institute of Art History of the University of Lund
1975 - New York (United States) - First Post Card Show, at New York University
1975 - Rockford (United States) - Conceptual Art Exhibition, at Burpee Art Museum
1976 - Antwerp (Belgium) - Fifth International Open Encounter on Video, at International Cultural Centrum
1976 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 20 Artistas Brasileños [20 Brazilian Artists] - Centro de Arte y Comunicación - CAYC
1976 - Kassel (Germany) - Group show, at Bickard Botinelli Gallery
1976 - Montecatini (Italy) - Group show, at Spazio Alternative 2
1976 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Multimedia, at MAC/USP
1976 - São Paulo SP - Aquisições e Doações Recentes [Recent Acquisitions and Donations], at MAC/USP
1976 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Nacional 76 [National Biennial 76], at Fundação Bienal
1976 - Venice (Italy) - 38th Venice Biennale
1977 - Austin (United States) - Recent Latin American Drawing in 1969-1976: Lines of Vision, at The University of Texas at Austin. Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
1977 - Barcelona (Spain) - Latin-America 76, at Fundació Joan Miró
1977 - Costa Rica - La Década de 70 [The 70s], at Universidad de Costa Rica
1977 - Little Rock (United States) - Recent Latin American Drawing in 1969-1976: Lines of Vision
1977 - Miami (United States) - Recent Latin American Drawing in 1969-1976: Lines of Vision
1977 - São Paulo SP - 14th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1977 - São Paulo SP - Poéticas Visuais [Visual Poetics], at MAC/USP
1978 - New York (United States) - Annual Group Show, at Nobé Gallery
1978 - New York (United States) - Eight Assemblies, at Pratt Institute
1978 - Providence (United States) - Pot Tv, at Amy Arts Center
1978 - São Paulo SP - 1st São Paulo International Video Art Meeting, at MIS/SP
1978 - São Paulo SP - O Objeto na Arte: Brasil anos 60 [The Object in Art: Brazil in the 1960s], at MAB/Faap
1978 - São Paulo SP - Poucos e Raros [Few and Rare], at Masp
1979 - Bialystok (Poland) - Other Child Books, at Znak Gallery
1979 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 1st Latin American Printmaking Triennial, at Salas Nacionales de Exposición
1979 - Mendoza (Argentina) - 1st Latin American Printmaking Triennial, at Museo de Arte Moderno
1979 - New York (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Works on Paper: 49 artists, at Nobé Gallery
1979 - São Paulo SP - Cooperativa dos Artistas Plásticos [Visual Artists' Cooperative], at Pinacoteca do Estado
1979 - São Paulo SP - Multimídia Internacional [International Multimedia], at ECA/USP
1980 - New York (United States) - On the Shelf, at 14 Sculptors Gallery
1981 - New York (United States) - Ikon Logos, at Alternative Museum
1981 - New York (United States) - Latin American Woman Artists, at Soho 20 Gallery
1981 - New York (United States) - Latin American Woman Artists, at Bronx Museum
1981 - New York (United States) - Schemes: a decade of installation drawings, at Elise Meyer Inc
1981 - São Paulo SP - 16th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1982 - New York (United States) - Spirits of Brazil, at Janapa Photography Gallery
1982 - Penápolis SP - 5th Noroeste Visual Arts Salon. 1st National Meeting of Printmakers, at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1982 - Zwolle (Netherlands) - A White Sheet of Paper, at Zwolle Public Library
1983 - North Carolina (United States) - Traditions and Configurations, at Wake Forest University
1983 - New York (United States) - 5th Annual Artists as Filmmakers, at Air Gallery
1983 - New York (United States) - Artist's Books Show, at Franklin Furnace
1983 - New York (United States) - Film as Installation, at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Clock Tower Gallery
1983 - New York (United States) - Hispanic Achievement, at Equitable Gallery
1983 - New York (United States) - Multiples by Latin-American Artists, at Franklin Furnace
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1983 - São Paulo SP - A Sequência na Fotografia [Sequence in Photography], at Arco Arte Contemporânea
1984 - Los Angeles (United States) - Aqui, at University of Southern California. Fisher Gallery
1984 - New York (United States) - Carnival Knowledge, at Franklin Furnace
1984 - New York (United States) - Message and Metaphor, at Art Awareness Gallery
1985 - New York (United States) - Collaborations, at Alternative Museum
1985 - São Paulo SP - Artes Novos Meios/Multimeios - Brasil 1970-1980 [New Media/Multimedia Arts - Brazil 1970-1980], at MAB/Faap
1985 - São Paulo SP - Tendências do Livro de Artista no Brasil [Trends in the Artist's Book in Brazil], at CCSP
1987 - Austin (United States) - Latin American Artists Living in New York since 1970, at Blanton Museum
1987 - Cuiabá MT - Artistas pela Natureza [Artists for Nature], at Casa de Cultura
1987 - New York (United States) - Transmedia/Transculture, at Exit Art Gallery
1987 - São Paulo SP - Foto/Ideia [Photo/Idea], at MAC/USP
1987 - São Paulo SP - Palavra Imágica [Imagic Word], at MAC/USP
1988 - Austin (United States) - A Different Place, at Laguna Gloria Museum
1988 - Austin (United States) - Latin American Drawings from the Barbara Duncan Collection, at The University of Texas at Austin. Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
1988 - Houston (United States) - 1st Texas Triennial, at Contemporary Arts Museum
1988 - Kansas (United States) - Current Works, at Leedy-Voulkos Gallery
1988 - New Orleans (United States) - Latin American Artists of the Southeast Coastal Region, traveling exhibition organized by the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans
1988 - New York (United States) - The Debt, at Exit Art Gallery
1988 - Ohio (United States) - The Video Medium: an overview, at Geoffrey Taber Gallery
1988 - São Paulo SP - Civilidades da Selva: mitos e iconografias indígenas [Civilities of the Jungle: Indigenous Myths and Iconographies], at MAC/USP
1989 - New York (United States) - Here and There: travels part 2, at The Institute for Contemporary Art. The Clocktower Gallery
1990 - Birmingham (England) - Transcontinental, at Ikon Gallery
1990 - El Paso (United States) - 1st Texas Triennial Exhibition. Installation by Regina Vater and Bill Lundberg, at Bridge Center for Contemporary Art
1990 - Houston (United States) - The Revered Earth, at Contemporary Arts Museum
1990 - Manchester (England) - Transcontinental, at Corner House Gallery
1990 - Massachusetts (United States) - Poetics of Presence, at SMU Gallery, Southeastern Massachusetts University
1990 - New York (United States) - The Revered Earth, at Pratt Institute
1991 - Atlanta (United States) - The Revered Earth, at Nexus Contemporary Arts Center
1991 - San Antonio (United States) - The Revered Earth, at Blue Star Gallery
1991 - San Diego (United States) - Counter-Colonialism, at Centro Cultural de la Raza
1991 - San Diego (United States) - Latin American Drawings Today, at San Diego Museum of Art
1991 - Tucson (United States) - The Revered Earth, at Dinnerware Artists Cooperative
1992 - Antwerp (Belgium) - America, the Bride of the Sun, at Koninklijk National Royal Museum
1992 - Austin (United States) - Installation, at Mexic-Arte Museum
1992 - Minnesota (United States) - Completing the Circle - Artists Books on the Environment, at Center for Art Books
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Regina Vater and Bill Lundberg, at Solar Grandjean de Montigny
1992 - São Paulo SP - Regina Vater and Bill Lundberg, at MAC/USP
1992 - São Paulo SP - Vozes da Diáspora [Voices of the Diaspora], at Pinacoteca do Estado
1992 - São Paulo SP - Vozes dos Minerais [Voices of the Minerals], at Galeria Miriam Mamber
1993 - San Francisco (United States) - Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art, at The Mexican Museum
1993 - Washington (United States) - Ultramodern: the art of contemporary Brazil, at The National Museum of Women in the Arts
1994 - Austin (United States) - Rethinking La Malinche, at Mexic-Arte Museum
1994 - Baltimore (United States) - Rejoining the Spiritual: The Land in Contemporary Latin American Art, at Maryland Institute, College of Art
1994 - Brasília DF - Arte Põe Gráfica, at Gibiteca Espaço Cultural, Fundação Cultural Ibac
1994 - Philadelphia (United States) - Outside from Within: paper as sculpture, at The University of the Arts. Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery
1994 - New Paltz (United States) - WSW XX Years - A Retrospective, at State University of New York at New Paltz
1994 - San Francisco (United States) - Brazil by Brazilians, at Center of the Arts
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século XX [20th-Century Brazil Biennial], at Fundação Bienal
1995 - Austin (United States) - Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art, at Laguna Gloria Museum
1995 - Brasília DF - Terra Brasília [Brasília Land], at Espaço Cultural 508 Sul
1995 - El Paso (United States) - Rethinking La Malinche, at Bridge Center for Contemporary Art
1995 - Natal RN - National Visual Poetry Show, at Galeria Conviv'Art/UFRN
1996 - Austin (United States) - Latin American Artists Books, at Mexic-Arte Museum
1996 - New York (United States) - Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art, at Harlem Studio Museum
1996 - São Paulo SP - Ex Libris/Home Page. Livros de Artistas [Artists' Books], at Paço das Artes
1996 - São Paulo SP - Mulheres Artistas no Acervo do MAC [Women Artists in the MAC Collection], at MAC/USP
1997 - Austin (United States) - Sniper's Nest: art that has lived with Lucy Lippard, at The University of Texas at Austin. Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
1997 - Austin (United States) - Voices and Visions, at Mexic-Arte Museum
1997 - Barra Mansa RJ - O Museu Visita a Galeria [The Museum Visits the Gallery], at Centro Universitário de Barra Mansa
1999 - San Antonio (United States) - ArtPace Foundation Artist-in-Residence Program Show
1999 - Wisconsin (United States) - Home Altars: sacred space in the domestic realm, at John Michael Kohler Arts Center
2000 - Austin (United States) - Small Format Exhibition, at Texas Fine Arts Association
2000 - New York (United States) - The End: an independent vision of contemporary culture, 1982-2000, at Exit Art
2000 - São Paulo SP - Arte Conceitual e Conceitualismos: anos 70 no acervo do MAC/USP [Conceptual Art and Conceptualisms: The 70s in the MAC/USP Collection], at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
2001 - São Paulo SP - Cultura Brasileira 1 [Brazilian Culture 1], at Casa das Rosas
2002 - Austin (United States) - Brazilian Visual Poetry, at Mexic-Arte Museum
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Artefoto, at CCBB
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Caminhos do Contemporâneo 1952-2002 [Paths of the Contemporary 1952-2002], at Paço Imperial
2002 - São Paulo SP - Fotografias no Acervo do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo [Photographs in the Collection of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo], at MAM/SP
2003 - Brasília DF - Artefoto, at CCBB
2003 - São Paulo SP - MAC USP 40 Anos: interfaces contemporâneas [MAC USP 40 Years: Contemporary Interfaces], at MAC/USP
2003 - São Paulo SP - Natureza Morta [Still Life], at Espaço Cultural BM&F
2004 - São Paulo SP - Still Life / Natureza Morta, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
2005 - Belém PA - 24th Arte Pará Salon 2005, at Fundação Rômulo Maiorana
2007 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Mais Precioso que Prata [More Precious than Silver], at Caixa Cultural
2007 - São Paulo SP - Arte-Antropologia [Art-Anthropology], at MAC/USP
2007 - São Paulo SP - Anos 70 - Arte como Questão [The 70s - Art as Question], at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
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