Born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, where she lives and works, Adriana Varejão is one of Brazil’s leading contemporary artists. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hara Museum, Tokyo; the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona; and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, among others. Varejão has exhibited extensively internationally, with solo shows at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2005); Hara Museum, Japan (2007); Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2012); Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013) and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina (2013). Varejão’s work was included in the São Paulo Biennial (1994 and 1998), Sydney Biennial (2001), Site Santa Fé (2004), Mercosul Biennial in Visual Art, Brazil (1997 and 2005), Liverpool Biennial (1999 and 2006) and 12th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2011), among others. Most recently her work was featured prominently in Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH and in Imagine Brazil at the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway. She also has a permanent pavilion devoted to her work at the Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim in Brazil that opened in 2008.