Born
1960, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
Education
1980-82
School of Visual Arts, Parque Lage, Brazil
1978-81
Curso de Comunicacao Social - Facha, Brazil
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
2008
James Cohan Gallery, New York
Retrospective, Pinacoteca do Estacao, Sao Paolo
2007
Galerie Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paolo
New Prints, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2006
Los Usos de la Pintura II, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Beatriz Milhazes, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
2005
Peace and Love, commissioned by Platform for Art, Gloucester Road Tube
Station (District and Circle line platform) (through May 22, 2006)
Joa, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (through January 14, 2006)
2004
Summertime, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Meu Prazer, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Brazilian Pavilion
2003
Galerie Max Hertzler, Berlin, Germany
2002
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro and toured Artist's Book Project,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2001
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Traveled to: Birmingham Museum of Art,
Birmingham, USA; Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain; Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
1998
Gravuras, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1996
Centro de Artes Calouste Gulbenkian, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1995
Projecto Finep, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
When lives become form, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Prospect .1 New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, curated by Dan Cameron
Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
The Tropics. Views from the Middle of the Globe, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2006
Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Art Museum
2005
POPulence, curated by David Pagel, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the
University of Houston, TX; traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (September 15-December 20, 2005), and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (January 21-April 2, 2006) (catalogue)
Flower Myth. Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel,
Switzerland
2004
Polyphony: Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa, Japan (through March 21, 2005)
Território Livre, 26th Sao Paolo Biennial, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, Fundação
Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
The Flower as Image, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art From the Collection of The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2003
Dreams and Conflicts - The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy
2002
Urgent painting, Musee d'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris, France
2001
Hybrids, Tate Liverpool, UK
Viva a Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Operativo,
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
2000
Projects 70, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
F®icciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1999
Transvanguarda Latino Americana, Culturguest, Lisbon, Portugal
1998
XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
1997
Decorative Strategies, Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Group Show, Kunstmuseum, Heidenheim, Germany
Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
1996
Theories of the Decorative, Baumgarther Galleries Inc., Washington DC, USA; travelling to
Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
1995
Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
1989
Bienal International de Cuencas, Cuencas, Equador
Exhibitions Catalogues
2005
POPulence, exhibition catalogue, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX, 2005. Texts by David Pagel and Terrie Sultan.
Works on Paper, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany, 2005. Text by Kristy Bell.
lower Myth. Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2005. Texts by Ernst Beyeler Christoph Vitali, Robert Kopp, Philippe Büttner and Ulf Küster.
2004
Bencard, Ernst Jonas and Poul Erik Tøjner, The Flower as Image, exhibition catalogue, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2004.
2002
Falguières, Patricia, Vues du monde in 'Urgent Painting', Musée D'Art De La Ville de Paris, Paris Farias, Aguinaldo, 50 Anos da Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
2001
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Ryam, David, Hydrids, in Hydrids, Tate Liverpool
1998
Friis-Hansen, Dana, Where do you come from? Where are you going?, Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Museum of Art, Houston; Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City
XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Arte Contemporanea Brasileira: Um e/entre outro(s)
XI Biennale of Sydney
1996
Pedrosa, Adriano. Beatriz Milhazes.
1995
Carnegie International, 1995. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA.
Introduction by Richard Armstrong and essay by Stella Teixeira de Barros, pp. 126-129
Articles and Reviews
2005
Nichols, Matthew Guy, "Beatriz Milhazes at James Cohan," Art in America, March 2005
Sheets, Hilarie M., "Beatriz Milhazes: James Cohan," ARTNews, February 2005
2004
Villasmil, Alejandra, "Beatriz Milhazes: James Cohan Gallery, New York", review, Arte al
día International, December 04 – January 05
Ribas, João, "Flower Power", Art Review, October 2004
Ribeiro, José Augusto, "In the Sway of the Bossas: "Waves"", ArtNexus, No. 54, Vol. 3, 2004
Willis, Simon. "Beatriz Milhazes", Contemporary Magazine, 2003 Issue 58
2003
Wallis, Simon. "Beatriz Milhazes," Contemporary, 2003 Issue 58
2002
Pedrosa, Adriano. "Beatriz Milhazes", BOMB, Winter 2001/2002, pp. 002-0
2001
Auslander, Philip. "Beatriz Milhazes", Artforum, November 2001, pp. 149-150
Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Banco Itaú, S.A., São Paulo, Brazil
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid, Spain
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer, Fund for Contemporary Art in honor of Madeleine Grynsztejn, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York , NY
La Sacen Neuilly-Sur Seibe, France
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
