» Ana Maria Tavares

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Selected Biographical Information

Education / Training

1995-2000: PhD, Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
1984-1986: MFA, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
1978-1982: BFA, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.

Prizes / Fellowships

2013-2014: Humanities Research Center – Autrey Visiting Scholar. Rice University, Rice University, Houston, USA.
2002-2003: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, USA.
1991: Prêmio of the City of Ribeirão Preto 16º SARP , Casa da Cultura Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
1990: Prêmio Brasília de Artes Plásticas 1990, MAB Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
1987: Prêmio Artista Revelação 1987 – APCA , Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil.
1984-1986: MFA Scholarship, FULLBRIGHT/CAPES/LASPAU.
2007: Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA.
2007: Red de Residencias Artisticas Local Mestrado en Artes, Universidad Nacional de Bogotá – UNAL , Bogotá, Colombia.

Solo Exhibitions

2015: “Deviating Utopias from the Artifactual Series”, Galerie Stöckle Hauser, Stuttgart, Germany.
2015: “Cárceres a duas Vozes: Piranesi e Ana Maria Tavares”, Museu Lasar Segall, São Paulo, Brazil .
2015: “Deviating Utopias from the Artifactual Series”, Rools Royce Studio, Berlin, Germany.
2015: “Sinfonia Tropical para Loos”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014: “Euryales Amazonica”, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, USA.
2014: “Atlântica Moderna: Purus e Negros”, Museu Vale, Vila Velha, Brazil.
2013: “Deviating Utopias”, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, USA.
2013: “Natural-Natural: Paisagem e Artifício”, MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, Brazil.
2013: “Tautorama”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011: “Desviantes (da série Hieróglifos Sociais)”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008: “Ana Maria Tavares”, The Shusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia.
2008: “Crystal Waters”, Kröller Müller Museum, Arnhem, Holland.
2005: “Paisagem para Exit II”, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal.
2001: “Middelburg Airport Lounge with Parede Niemeyer”, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland.
1998: “Relax’o’visions”, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil.
1997: “Porto Pampulha”, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Group Exhibitions

2014: “Josephine Baker e Le Corbusier – Um Caso Transatlântico”, MAR Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009: “After Utopia”, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
2009: “Neo-Tropicália”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA.
2008: “Neo-Tropicália”, MOT – Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
2008: “Blooming Now: Brasil-Japão, o seu lugar”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan.
2008: “Grandeur. Sonsbeek_10”, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, Holland.
2006: “Belief”, Singapore Bienalle 2006, Singapore, Singapore.
2005: “Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art”, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA.
2004: “The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
2003: “Conceptualisms: Zeitgenossische Tendenzen in Musik”, Kunst und Film, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Gemany.
2003: “Auf Eigene Gefahr/At your Own Risk”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
2003: “The Straight or Croocked Way”, Royal College of Art, London, England.
2003: “Living Inside the Grid”, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA.
2002: “Arte Cidade Zona Leste”, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil.
2001: “Ego Fugal”, VII Istambul Biennial, Istambul, Turkey.
2000: “Septima Bienal de La Habana: Una más acerca del otro”, Habana, Cuba.
1997: “XXVI Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra: O Espaço como Projeto – O Espaço como Realidade”, Pazo da Cultura, Pontevedra, Spain.
1994: “Bienal Brasil Século XX“, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Publications

CHIARELLI, Tadeu, Arte Internacional Brasileira (São Paulo: Lemos Editorial), 311.
TILROE, Anna, The Thinking Matter: Looking for a New Utopian Vision (Amsterdam: Querido Publishers).
CREAM 3 – Contemporary Art in Culture. 10 Curators. 10 Contemporary Artists. 10 Source Artists (London: Phaidon Press Limited), 448.
LAGNADO, Lisette, Carriers (São Paulo: Museu Brasileiro da Escultura).
Fernando Pedro da Silva. Marília Andrés Ribeiro., Ana Maria Tavares (Belo Horizonte: C/arte), 96.
CARVALHO, Bernardo, “Escultora seduz e castiga o olhar com boas intenções e perversão”, Folha de São Paulo , November 27, 1990.
HERKENHOFF, Paulo , “Brazilian Contemporary Art: A Theorethical Construction”, Ultramodern: The Art of Contemporary Brazil. The National Museum for Women in The Arts , 1993.
HINCHBERGER, Bill, “Ana Maria Tavares: Impractical Practices”, Art News, 1993.
HIRSZMAN, Maria, “As Vertiginosas Esculturas de Ana Tavares no MuBe”, O Estado de São Paulo, October 17, 1998.
ZAYA, Octavio, “Potafolio de Ana Maria Tavares para Atlántica”, Atlántica Revista de Arte y Pensamiento, Verano, 2000, Pages 94-109.
GALLÁN, Fernando Martín , “Obras Referenciales”, Sublime. , March/April, 2002, Page 32-33.
GROSSMANN, Martin, “Seducción y Crítica, Arte y Arquitectura en Brasil”, Revista Sublime / arte + cultura contemporânea , November/ December, 2002, Page 19-23.
Andy Campbell, “Ana Maria Tavares”, Artforum, December 2005, .
Julia Buenaventura, “Ana Maria Tavares”, ArtNews, 2011, 133-134.

Collections

KMM – Kröller Müller Museum, Arnhem, Holland.
FRAC Haute Normandie. Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, France.
CULTURGEST – Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisboa, Portugal.
MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Brussels, Belgian.
Fundação Arco, Madrid, Spain.
Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Niterói, Brazil.
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Sobre a Pureza Visual YEF-D (from the Artifactual Series)”, 2012, Stainless Steel, UV Print on dibond and anodized aluminum, 122 x 305 x 6.3 cm. Artist. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Sobre a Pureza Visual (from the Artifactual Series)”, 2012, Stainless Steel, UV Print on dibond and anodized aluminum, 122 x 183 x 6.3 cm. Marc Tabourian. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Noturno III (from crosswords series)”, 2004, Colored and engraved stainless steel and anodized aluminum, 162 x 486 x 7 cm. Fábio Cimino. Photo credit: João Musa.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Sobre a Pureza Visual (from the Artifactual Series) // detail”, 2012, Stainless Steel, UV Print on dibond and anodized aluminum, 122 x 183 x 6.3 cm. Marc Tabourian. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Insane facades (Screens from the Condominiums Series)”, 2013, Wood, methacrylate, polystyrene, polyester, leather and chromed steel, 2.22 x 5.60 x 4.85 cm. Artist. Photo credit: Bruno Schultze.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Insane facades (Screens from the Condominium Series)”, 2013, Wood, methacrylate, polystyrene, polyester, leather and chromed steel, 2.22 x 5.60 x 4.85 cm. Artist. Photo credit: Bruno Schultze.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Night Mantra Hem Triptych I (from the Forbidden Mantras Series)”, 2007, Colored and engraved stainless steel and anodized aluminum , 160 x 500 x 8 cm. João Tavares Pini. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Sparta. Desviante Triple_Dia L (from Hieróglifos Sociais serie)”, 2011, Aluminum, colored and silver stainless steel, UV Print on dibond, electrostatic painting, 152 x 423 x 18 cm. MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Alguns Pássaros (Those in Flight) // Tapete I a XX [center]”, 1991, Galvanized steel, velvet, wood and polyurethan ink // Stainless Steel, Variable dimensions. Site-specific project. Location: XXI Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. various. Photo credit: Rômulo Fialdini.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “BB Universal Mantras Triptych I (from the BB Universal Mantras Series)”, 2007, Colored and engraved stainless steel tiles, aluminum frame, Lamb wool and silk rug, 160 x 500 x 8 cm. Artist. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Bico de Diamante”, 1990, carbon steel, galvanized steel, metallic pigment, polyurethane and columns, Variable dimensions. Site-specific project. Location: Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Photo credit: Rômulo Fialdini.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “On Contamination XD1 (from the Artifactual Series)”, 2012, Coloured Stainless Steel and anodized aluminum, 122 x 183 x 6.3 cm. Private Collection. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Royal. Desviante Double_Noite Solo L (from Hieróglifos Sociais serie)”, 2011, Aluminum, colored and silver stainless steel, UV Print on dibond, electrostatic painting, 152 x 283 x 18 cm. Genny and Selmo Nissenbaum. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “Eden. Desviante Double_Dia Solo L (from Hieróglifos Sociais serie)”, 2011, Aluminum, colored and silver stainless steel, UV Print on dibond, electrostatic painting, 152 x 283 x 18 cm. Reinaldo Lin. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

: Ana Maria Tavares, “On Contamination (from the Artifactual Series)”, 2012, Coloured Stainless Steel and anodized aluminum, 122 x 122 x 6.3 cm. Private Collection. Photo credit: Flavio Lamenha.

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June 1, 2016