Vik Muniz (b. 1961). Vik Muniz was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He lives and works in New York and Rio de Janeiro. A comprehensive retrospective of Vik’s work traveled through Brazil in 2009/2010 after making rounds through the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The venues for the show included the Miami Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, P.S.1 MoMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Museum of Art São Paulo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, with an audience of over 500,000 people. In December 2008 Vik was the guest artist at the Museum of Modern Art exhibition series Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz-Rebus. Other international solo exhibitions in recent years are: Vik Muniz at the House of Photography, The Beautiful Earth at Paço das Artes e Galeria Fortes Vilaça in São Paulo, Pictures of People at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in the UK: Vik Muniz at the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art in Dublin; Vik Muniz at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea in Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Vik Muniz at Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro and Museum of Modern Art ,São Paulo. In the US major solo exhibitions are: The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dirt at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Vik Muniz at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in New York; Clayton Days at The Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh and Seeing is Believing at the International Center of Photography in New York. Read more…
amani olu (b. 1980) is an independent curator, writer, and the co-founder and executive director of Humble Arts Foundation, a New York based not-for-profit organization committed to supporting and promoting new art photography. He is the producer, co-curator, and designer of The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography, published by Humble Arts Foundation. In 2009 he curated After Color at Bose Pacia in Chelsea, New York, which travels during 2010 and 2011 to galleries at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). He is the organizer of the annual exhibition, Young Curators, New Ideas, which is in its fourth year and has featured presentations by Jose Ruiz, Lumi Tan, and Cleopatra’s. He is the first guest curator to organize an exhibition (Tuesday) at Mixed Greens, which opened in January 2011. His projects have been reviewed in The New York Times, Art News, AM New York, The New Yorker, and Time Out NY, and online at Art in America, Art Fag City, Blackbook, Bomblog, Cool Hunting, Daily Serving, and Flavorwire. olu is also a regular contributor to Whitewall Magazine where he has interviewed William Eggleston and Gottfried Helnwein, and profiled K8 Hardy, Elad Lassry, and David Benjamin Sherry. He lives and works in New York and is a proud member of New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).
Eugenie Tsai joined the Brooklyn Museum in the fall of 2007 as John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art. With Patrick Amsellem, she organized 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum, a long-term installation that opened on September 19, 2008. Previously she was Director of Curatorial Affairs at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, New York. Prior to Joining P.S.1 in 2005, she was an independent curator with projects for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Berkeley Museum; and the Princeton University Art Museum. She held several positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art prior to becoming Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs. Among the exhibitions and installations she has organized are the mid-career survey Threshold: Byron Kim, 1990-2004; Robert Smithson, which received the International Association of Art Critics’ first place award for the best monographic exhibition of 2005; and for Princeton University, Shuffling the Deck: The Collection Reconsidered. Dr. Tsai received a B.A. from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
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Vik was a guest artist at the 49th Venice Biennial, the 2000 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo and The 46th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition, Media/Metaphor at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A catalogue raisonne of Vik’s entire oeuvre (1987 to 2009) was published by Capivara Ed., Rio de Janeiro in December 2009. Some other major publications about Vik’s work are Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer, Portuguese version published by Cosac Naify, SP, Brasil in 2007 and English (original version) by Aperture, NY, 2005; Incomplete Work, published by the National Library Foundation, Brazil, 2004; Vik Muniz, Natura Pictrix: Essays and Interviews on Photography, published by Edgewise Press (NY, Turin, Paris), 2004.
His work is included in the collections of the major international museums such as: the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among others. Besides making art, Vik is involved in social projects that use art making as a force for change. One of these projects can be seen in Waste Land, a 2010 documentary about his work with Brazilian garbage pickers, which was nominated for the Oscar, won the Sundance Audience Award for Best Film, among other prizes. He has also developed education programs for Brazilian youth in partnership with non-governmental and non profit agencies such as Stimulu and Observatorio de Favelas.
Vik has also been a guest speaker in major University and Museums such as, Harvard, Yale, the Ted Conference, New York University, the International Center of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and most recently at MIT in Boston.
This year Vik has been nominated Good Will Ambassador by UNESCO.
Works in Progress Curatorial Team
Vik Muniz continued:
Vik was a guest artist at the 49th Venice Biennial, the 2000 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo and The 46th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition, Media/Metaphor at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A catalogue raisonne of Vik’s entire oeuvre (1987 to 2009) was published by Capivara Ed., Rio de Janeiro in December 2009. Some other major publications about Vik’s work are Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer, Portuguese version published by Cosac Naify, SP, Brasil in 2007 and English (original version) by Aperture, NY, 2005; Incomplete Work, published by the National Library Foundation, Brazil, 2004; Vik Muniz, Natura Pictrix: Essays and Interviews on Photography, published by Edgewise Press (NY, Turin, Paris), 2004.
His work is included in the collections of the major international museums such as: the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among others. Besides making art, Vik is involved in social projects that use art making as a force for change. One of these projects can be seen in Waste Land, a 2010 documentary about his work with Brazilian garbage pickers, which was nominated for the Oscar, won the Sundance Audience Award for Best Film, among other prizes. He has also developed education programs for Brazilian youth in partnership with non-governmental and non profit agencies such as Stimulu and Observatorio de Favelas.
Vik has also been a guest speaker in major University and Museums such as, Harvard, Yale, the Ted Conference, New York University, the International Center of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and most recently at MIT in Boston.
This year Vik has been nominated Good Will Ambassador by UNESCO.