adriana varejão

born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964
lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

individual exhibitions

2010

_Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2009

_Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

_Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA

2008

_Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil [permanent exhibition]

2007

_Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2006

_Fotografia como pintura, Sesc Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2005

_Chambre d’échos / Câmara de ecos, Fondation Cartier pour l´art Contemporain, Paris, France; Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal; DA2, Salamanca, Spain

_Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

2004

_Saunas, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2003

_Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA

2002

_Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

_Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

_Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2001

_Azulejões, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

_Azulejões, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília, Brazil

_Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal

2000

_Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA

_Azulejões e Charques, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

_Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden

_Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden

1999

_Alegria, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

1998

_Imagens de troca / Trading images, Pavilhão Branco, Museu da Cidade — Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal

_Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

1997

_Galeria Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

1996

_The banquet, Galeria Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1995

_Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA

1993

_Proposta para uma catequese, Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1992

_Galeria Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands

_Terra incógnita, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil

1991

_Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1988

_Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

selected collective exhibitions

2009

_De Malangatana a Pedro Cabrita Reis. Obras da Colecção Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Centro Cultural e Congressos, Caldas da Rainha; Mosteiro São Martinho Tibães, Tibães; Centro de Artes de Sines, Sines, Portugal

_Desenhos [Drawings]: A – Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal

_Americas Latinas. Las fatigas del querer. Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy

_Nus [Nudes], Galeria Fortes Vilaça & Galeria Bergamin, São Paulo, Brazil

_Regreso. Arte Latinoamericano y Memoria, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain

2008

_III Bienal de Bucareste, Romania

_ Laços do olhar, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil

_Poética da percepção, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2007

_80-90: modernos, pós-modernos, etc, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil

_Guggenheim Collection, 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria,Melbourne, Australia

_Global feminism, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA

_Latin american art: myth & reality, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, USA

2006

_IV Liverpool Biennial, UK

_Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain at MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

_ARS 06, KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinque, Finland

_Manobras radicais, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

2005

_inSite_05: Farsites: urban crisis and domestic symptoms in recent contemporary art, San Diego, USA

_5ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

_Retratos: 2,000 years of latin american portraits, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; The National Portrait Smithsonian International Gallery at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; San Antonio Museum of Art, USA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA [2004]

_(Hi)story, Kunstmuseum Thun, Sweden

_EducaçãO, Olha!, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

_Barrocos y neobarrocos — el infierno de lo bello, DA2, Salamanca, Spain

_O corpo na arte contemporânea Brasileira, Itaú Cultural São Paulo, Brazil

2004

_V SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

_We come in peace… histories of the Americas — Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada

_Brazil: body nostalgia, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tóquio; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

_Novas aquisições 2003 — Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

_Estratégias barrocas — arte contemporânea Brasileira, Centro Cultural Metropolitano de Quito, Ecuador

2003

_I Bienal de Praga, 2003, Czech Republic

_Overview — highlihts from the collections of Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden

_Yanomami, l´esprit de la forêt, Foundation Cartier pour l´art Contemporain, Paris, France; Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

_Panorama da arte Brasileira 2003, MAM — Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; MAMAM Recife, Brazil [2004]

2002

_Tempo, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

_ArteFoto, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

_Caminhos do contemporâneo, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2001

_Brazil: body and soul, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

_New settlements, Nikolaj — Kopenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Kopenhagen, Denmark

_El final del eclipse, Fundación Telefônica, Madrid; MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain [2002]

_XII Sydney Biennial, Australia

_Ultra baroque, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA [2001]; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA [2002]

_Versiones del sur, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

_El enigma de lo cotidiano, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain

1999

_Trace, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK

1998

_XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

1997

_Lines from Brazil, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

_Asi esta la cosa, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico

1996

_New histories, ICA — The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

1995

_TransCulture, XLVI Bienal de Veneza, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice, Italy; Benesse Haouse Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama City, Japan

_Johannesburg, South Africa Bienalle, Johanesburgo, South Africa

1994

_Mapping, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

_XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil

_V Bienal de Havana, Cuba

1989

_U-ABC, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

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