1964 Born in Rio de Janeiro Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro Awards 1990 Prêmio Brasília de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasília, Brasil 2000 CENTRAL Art Prize, Cologne, Germany 2009 Best Show in a Public Space, AICA/USA, The United States Section of the AICA, The International Art Critics Association Solo Exhibitions 2015 Ernesto Neto, Kunsthalle Krems 2014 Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Ernesto Neto: the body that carries me, Guggenheim, Bilbao 2013 Notes, Stones and dots, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Linha da vida, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo Olhando o Cèu, Palazzo Pamphili, Rome Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil 2012 La lengua de ernesto: retrospectiva 1987-2011 Colegio Ildefonso, Ciudad de México, México Slow iis goood, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Cuddle on the Tightrope, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas Não tenha medo do seu corpo, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, SP O Bicho SusPenso na PaisaGen, Estação Leopoldina Fecundation, Loucura é parte da vida, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo 2011 Hiper Cultura Loucura na vertigem do Mundo, Los Molinos, Faena district, Buenos Aires La lengua de ernesto: retrospectiva 1987-2011, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, MARCO, Mexico 2010 Quando a gente para, o mundo roda Casa de cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro Ernesto Neto: Intimacy, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo Ernesto Neto: Dengo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World, Hayward Gallery, London Dancing Allowed, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Navedenga, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2009 Anthropodino, Park Avenue Armory, New York A Culpa Civilizada, Musée des Beaux-arts, Nantes, France Mitodengo, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo 2008 A sculpture can be anything that can stand upright, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid Mentre niente accade/while nothing happens, Museu d Arte Contemporanea Roma Ernesto Neto, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik; Fondazione Volume!, Rome; Ai ai, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 1
Solo Exhibitions Continued 2007 Ernesto Neto, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego É a vida, o espaço interior, Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro From Sebastian to Olivia, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Um beijo de joguinho, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, The MIMOCA Foundation, Kagawa, Japan 2006 The Malmö Experience, Malmö Konsthall How to Put It Up, Dulcieneia!, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Ernesto Neto, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo Léviathan Thot, 35th Festival d Automne, Panthéon, Paris From what are we made, made, of of, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York O abraço do tempo Jazz, with Carlos Bevilacqua, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo 2005 There Is Nothing Else to Be Seen but the World, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris agora Bolas..., Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo Tractatus & Deuses, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna Ernesto Neto, Domaine de Kerguéhennec Centre D art Contemporain, Paris Ernesto Neto, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA 2004 Ernesto Neto, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia Ernesto Neto, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; Centro Cultural São Paulo Citoplasma e Organóides, Projeto Respiração, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2003 The silent cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Ernesto Neto: Three Religions, No God and the Children, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles Ernesto Neto, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil 2002 Kunsthalle Basel; Genealogy of Life, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart Directions: Ernesto Neto, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC Contemporary Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Arte Futura e Companhia, Brasília Passing Time, Passing Space, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Denmark 2001 Matrix 190 - A Maximum Minimal Time Space Between Us and the Parsimonious Universe, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive A paisagem do corpo e o corpo da paisagem, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela Stella Nave, University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne Flying Gloup Nave, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle Only the amoebas are happy, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Horizonte de eventos, Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro 2
Solo Exhibitions Continued 2000 O Casamento: Lili, Neto. Lito e os loucos, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro Ernesto Neto, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland Sister Naves, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio Pensamentos Emocionais, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid Ernesto Neto/Andy Goldsworthy, SITE Santa Fé, New Mexico Acontece num fim de tarde, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo 1999 James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Nhó Nhó Nave, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas 1998 Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York Poff, Poff, Poff, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrilo Gil, Mexico City 1997 Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal, Brasília Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York Esculturas, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal 1996 Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid Espacio 204, Caracas, Venezuela Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica 1994 Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo 1993 Quase Desenhos, Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro 1992 Ernesto Neto Esculturas, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo 1991 Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo; Galeria de Arte do IBEU, Rio de Janeiro 1990 Galeria Millan, São Paulo; Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro 1989 Galeria Macunaíma, FUNARTE - Fundação Nacional de Arte, Rio de Janeiro 1988 Petit Galerie, Rio de Janeiro Group Exhibitions (from 2002 onwards) 2015 Belle Haleine - Der Duft der Kunst, Museum Tinguely Basel Es liegt was in der Luft - Duft in der Kunst, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot (DE) 2014 At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington The Unfettered Gaze. The Rasch Brothers and their Influences on Modern Architecture, Marta Herford, Herford (DE) Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea Simple Shapes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris do it Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia 3
2014 Fruits of Passion: Collection from the Musée national d art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Kobe The Five Senses, Scottdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottdale, USA 2013 Brasiliana. Installationen von 1960 bis heute.schirn, Frankfurt Station to station. A Doug Aitken Project, nine stops at train stations across the country from New York City to San Francisco The Insides Are on the Outside I O interior está no exterior, Casa de Vidro Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates Permission To Be Global: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals- Cisneros Collection, CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, traveled to MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston REMEMBER EVERYTHING, 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Encuentros / Tensiones. Arte latinoamericano contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2012 Food, Musée Ariana, Genève SuperBodies, 3rd Triennial of contemporary art, fashion and de sign, Hasselt, Belgium El Panal/The Hive Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico; 11 Oncena Bienal de la Habana, Cuba The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art, Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway SAMMEN/TOGETHER, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway Arte e sociedade no Brasil, MAR-Museu d Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London 2011 Biomorph! Hans Arp in dialogue with contemporary artist positions, Germany Arp museum Ordem e Progresso, MAM, São Paulo The new design of the ENEL Gallery, Museo d Arte Contemporanea Roma 2010 Passages. Travels in Hyperspace. Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Spain A Gentil Carioca, Ein Kunstraum in Rio de Janeiro, IFA Berlin 29th São Paulo Biennial, SP The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London Tropicália Die 60s in Brasilien/ Kunsthalle Wien 2009 History of Violence, Haifa Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Nudes, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo MEMORIAL revisitado, 20 anos, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo Desenhos [Drawings]: A Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon Silent Writings, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris; touring to Palazzo Dugnani, Milan 4
2009 Brazil Contemporary, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming, Ludwick Grohman Villa, Lodz, Poland After Utopia A View on Brazilian Contemporary Art, Centro per l arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art 1960-present, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Experiências Contemporâneas Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça no MAC USP, Espaço Cultural Marcantonio Vilaça, Brasília Don t Stare at the Sun / Nie patrz prosto w słonce Works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland 2008 Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria De Perto e de Longe Paralela 08, Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo Blooming Now! - Brazilian Contemporary Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan 19 desarranjos Panorama da Arte Brasileira 2003, Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica Bogotá, Colombia PARANGOLÉ. Fragmentos desde los 90 en Brasil, Portugal y España, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain N Múltiplos, Galeria Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Arte para Crianças - Uma exposição de arte contemporânea para o publico infantil, SESC Pompéia, SP Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary-Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz Psycho Buildings: Artists take on Architecture, Hayward Gallery, London Poética da Percepção, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro Sand: Memory, Meaning, and Metaphor, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York Order Desire Light: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin It is Not Neutral: Daros Latin American Collection, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Tabakalera, San Sebastián 2007 Poética da Percepção, Espaço Cultural Vivo, São Paulo Space for your Future: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Action in Utopia, Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria ICA 60 the Anniversary Edition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Por um fio, Espaço Cultural CPFL, Campinas, Brazil; Paço das Artes, São Paulo Material, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC Other animal in Views on Stage, Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part 1, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Drawing is a Verb, Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal 5
2007 Close to Me: Art from Brazil, Guenzani Via Melzo, Milan Arte para Crianças, Museu Vale do Rio doce Vitória, Rio de Janeiro Held Together with Water, MAK - Ausstellungshalle, Vienna; 80-90: Modernos, Pós Modernos, etc, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo Novel Readings, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Melting point, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo REtalhar, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro 2006 Choque Cultural na Fortes Vilaça - Fortes Vilaça na Choque Cultural, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo Reverence, Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York Brazil in Zurich: Seduced to art by art, Daros Exhibitions, Löwenbräu-Areal, Zurich Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario Seduções / Seductions, Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Tokyo; Gardens, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan Abrigo Poético: Diálogos com Lygia Clark, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Rio de Janerio Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin MAM na Oca, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo Paralela 2006, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo 2005 5th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil 150 Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 20 Desarreglos: Panorama del Arte Brasileira, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain A Imagem do Som de Dorival Caymmi, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro Bresil = Foot Art, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris Collecció Fundació La Caixa: 20 Years with Contemporary Art. New Acquisitions CaixaForum, Barcelona Contained, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Desenhos: A - Z (Drawings A - Z), Collecção Maderia Corporate Sevice, Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal Deseos Fluidos: Brazilian and Cubans Perspectives Between Reality and Fantasy, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art, Vienna Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York Educação, Olha!, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro Exchange Brazil, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Fairy Tales Forever - Homage to H.C. Andersen, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark 6
2005 J en rêve, Fondation Cartier, Paris O Corpo na Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo Razão e Sensibilidade, Casa Cor, São Paulo The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, trabalhos se lecionados da Coleção Latino Americana de Daros, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas Troca Brasil, The Feldman Gallery & Project Space, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago touring to Barbican Art Gallery, London Centro Cultural Belém, Lisbon The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro Le corps où il n est pas, Espace Topographie de l Art, Paris 2004 The Snow Show, Kemi and Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland Perception of Space, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Brasil: Body Nostalgia, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Everything is connected he, he, he, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo Invenção de Mundos, Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Brazil Lustwarande 04: Disorientation by Beauty, De Oude Warande De Pont - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville Casa - Poética do Espaço na Arte Brasileira, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Invenção de Mundos, Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Brazil Lustwarande 04: Disorientation by Beauty, De Oude Warande De Pont - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville Casa - Poética do Espaço na Arte Brasileira, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Brazil Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 4 Artists and I, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland The encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - emerging resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Múltiplos, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro Arte Contemporânea Brasileira nas Coleções do Rio, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are Reinvented in the Internet Age,The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado 7
2004 21st Anniversary Show, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica Vila Velha, Brazil Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 4 Artists and I, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland The encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - emerging resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Múltiplos, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro Arte Contemporânea Brasileira nas Coleções do Rio, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are Reinvented in the Internet Age,The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado 21st Anniversary Show, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica 2003 Imagination - Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria The Museum collections: new presentation of art works from 1960 to the present day, Centre Pompidou, Paris VIII Bienal de Havana, Cuba A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro; touring to Museu de Arte Moderna Aluísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil Via BR 040 - longo trecho em aclive, Museu Imperial - Plataforma Contemporânea, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro From Dust to Dusk - Art between light and dirt, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Marcantonio Vilaça - Passaporte Contemporâneo, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo A simple plan, James Cohan Gallery, New York Forever, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York The Real Royal Trip, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; touring to Museo Pátio Herreriano, Valladolid 2002 Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures, AXA Gallery, New York; touring to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, Texas Chicago Cultural Centre; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas Bedford Gallery - Regional Center for the Arts Walnut Creek, California Boise Art Museum, Indianapolis The Inside is the Outside, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Vivências: Dialogues between the works of Brazilian artists between 1960s and 2002, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK Sleeping, Dreaming, Awakening, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan 8
2002 Retalhar 2002, Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo Caminhos do Contemporâneo, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro pot, 2nd Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, UK Touring to Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo Insieme/Together, Museo Nazionale di Archittetura, Ferrara, Italy Archivo Pons Artxiboa, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia-San-Sebastian, Spain Matéria Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba, Brazil Shape, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Skin, Soul, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Fundación NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Cadiz 9