Solo Exhibition
2006
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FLA
2005
Koyanagi Gallery. Tokyo, Japan
Sala Amós Salvaldor. Logroño, Spain
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA
Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil. Vik Muniz: Divas & Monsters. SP. Brazil
2004
Fundación Telefónica. Madrid, Spain
Diamond Divas and Caviar Monsters.
Gallery Xippas, Paris. France
Gallery Xippas, Athenas, Greece
Retratos de Revista. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, SP. Brazil
Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo Venâncio – ECCO, Brasilia. Brazil
Piranesi Prisons- National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C
Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin. Ireland
Gallery Elba Benitez, Madrid. Spain
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea-CGAC. Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Solo Show at Gallery Gan,Tokyo, Japan
MACRO- Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Monadic Works and Drawings. Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis
2002
Candy Bam, special project for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Public Art Fund, 2002/2003 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              2002/2003      end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Brooklyn, NY
Pictures of Air, Sperone Gallery, Rome
Vik Muniz Cardi Gallery, Milan
Museu de Arte Contemporanea do Centro Dragão do Mar, Ceará, Brazil
Doug Lawing, Houston
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Michael Hue Williams Fine Art, London
Barbara Krakow, Boston
Laberints, Spai 13, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Earthworks, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
Reparte, CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Bolder
Model Pictures, The Menil Collection, Houston
2001
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
Vik Muniz- Homenagem ao Centenário de J.K. Museu da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
Erotica, Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
49th Venice Biennial: Brazilian Representation, Venice Italy
49th Venice Biennial: Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Henry Art Gallery- University of Washington, Seattle
Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan
Vik Muniz. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Clayton Days Espaço Cine, SP, Brazil June
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y.
Reparte Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
The ThingsTthemselves: Pictures of Dust. Michael-Hue Williams Fine Art, London, UK
2000
Clayton Days. The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Pictures of Ink. Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, N.Y.
“Photographs” & Personal Articles. Ubu Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan
Foundation Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vik Muniz. Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
The Invisible Object. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Earthworks. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.
Vik Muniz. Sala de Exposiciones. Patio de Escuelas. Centro de Fotografia. Universidade de Salamanca, Spain
1999
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Ariz.
Galeri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery, Rome, Italy
Photo & Co., Turin, Italy
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
Flora Industrialis. Caisse des Dépôts et Cossignations, Paris, France
After Warhol. Renos Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Ill.
1998
Galeria Módulo, Lisbon, Portugal
Seeing is Believing. International Center of Photography, New York, N.Y.
Beyond the Edges. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
Flora Industrialis. Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.
1997
Pictures of Thread. Wooster Gardens, New York, N.Y.
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.
1996
The Sugar Children. Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, N.Y.
Galeria Casa da Imagen, Curitiba, Brazil
The Best of Life. Wooster Gardens, New York, N.Y.
Pantomimes. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.
1995
The Wire Pictures. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
1994
Representations. Wooster Gardens, New York, N.Y.
1993
Equivalents. Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, N.Y.
Equivalents. Ponte Pietra Gallery, Verona, Italy
1992
Individuals. Stux Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Claudio Botello Arte, Turin, Italy
1991
Gabinete de Arte Rachel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
1990
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.
1989
Stux Gallery, New York, N.Y.

Group Exhibition
2005
Main Line Collects: Distinctive Choices. Main Line Art Center. Harverford. PA
In Focus: Contemporary Photography from the Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection. North Carolina Museum of Art
Surfaces Paradise: Vik Muniz, Thomas Ruff and Gary Carsley. Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem. Arnhem. The Netherlands
Cloud Images. Aargauer Kunsthaus. Aarau. Switzerland
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art. PaceWildenstein.
The Other Mainstream: Selections from the Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection, 2005.Arizona State University, Tempe, Az
Material Matters. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY
2004
Surprise. Cardi Gallery, Milan
Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits. El Museo del Barrio. NY
San Diego Museum of Art.
Bass Museum of Art, Miami.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C
San Antonio Museum of Art
About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Janaina Tschäpe & Vik Muniz. ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Photography and Sculpture, MAM Collection: 1995-2004. Museum of Modern Art, Brazil.
Reanimation. Kunstmuseum Thun. Uhr.
The Cobweb. The Collection. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection at the SFMOMA
…So Fresh, So Cool! Galleria Cardi & Co. Milan
Artist’s Favorites: Act II. Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
On Side. Centro de Artes Visuais. Colégio das Artes, Coimbra, Portugal
Moving Outlines- Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
Open House. Brooklyn Museum of Art . N
Hair: Untangling a Social History. The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. Saratoga Springs, NY.
Home Sweet Home. Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2003
Pour de Vrai?. Boisbonnard, France. September
Crosscurrents, Norton Museum of Art , Palm Beach, FLA
Panorama de Arte Brasileira. Museum of Modern Art
São Paulo, Brazil
Regarding War. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Scenery. Rena Bransten Gallery. SF, CA
Hot Summer in the City. Sean Kelly Gallery, NY.
Stranger in the Village organized by the Museum of Modern Art, NY. Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY
S(how): Visual Ephemerality/Bodily Consumption. Institute of Contemporary Art. University of Pennsylvania
Only Skin Deep: Visions of the America Self. International Center of Photography, New York.
Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran’s Photograph Collection. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York State Museum, Albany, New York
D'Après Galleria GAS Corso Vittorio, Torino Italia
Finesilver Gallery opening, San Antonio. TX.
Last Supper. Michael Hue-Williams Gallery, London, 2003
Miradas Cómplice. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York State Museum in Albany
Installation of Vik Muniz works from the West Collection at SEI, Philadelphia, PA
2002
Shape. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Japan
Attack: Attraction. Marcel Sitcoske Gallery
La Mirada: the Art of Photography in Latin America Today, Daros Exhibitions,
Oct 2002/Jan 2003 Zurich, Switzerland.,
Tempo, Inaugural group show of MoMAQNS, June, NY
The Photogenic: Photography through its Metaphors in Contemporary Art.
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June/July NY
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American
Art 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, June/July NY
What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, , Whitney Museum of American Art, September NY
Collection of Photographs from MAM, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sao Paulo, July/ August, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Huesca Image: VIII International Festival of Photography. Spain
Staging Reality: Photography from the West Collection at SEI
2001
Museum as Subjects: The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Planet Earth, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK
Drawn from Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
Brazil:Body and Soul, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
Espelho Cego: Seleções de uma Coleção Contemporanea, Paço Imperial, RJ, Brazil
The Thread Unravelled: Contemporary Brazilian Art, El Museo del Barrio, NY
Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Rotativa, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, SP Brasil
2000
Counter-Monuments and Memory, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
Minimalism and After ,Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
The Path of Resistance, White Spectrum, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
Bruit de fond. Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
Fundação Calouste Gulbekian, Lisboa, Portugal
La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States. National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Projecto Mnemosyne: Encontros de Fotografia. Museu Antropologico, Coimbra, Portugal
Sean Kelly Gallery, N.Y.
2000
Biennial Exhibition.Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y.
Photo España 00. Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
Landscape-Portrait. Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London,UK
The 46th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Quiet of the Land. Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil
Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, N.Y.
Deslocamentos do Feminino. Galeria Conjunto Cultural da Caixa, RJ, Brazil
Brasil +500: Mostra do Redescobrimento: Artes Visuais, Modulo de Arte Contemporanea, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo, SP, Brazil
A Figura Humana na Colecao Itau, Itau Cultural, SP, Brazil
3a Bienal Internacional de Fotografia, Curitiba, PA, Brazil
1999
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.
Abracadabra. The Tate Gallery, London, UK
Trace. The Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
1998
XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil
Group Exhibition. The Cannon Gallery for Photography, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Urban Cannibal. Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
Double Trouble, the Patchett Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego, Calif.
Le Donné, le Fictif. Centre National de La Photographie, Paris, France
The Garden of the Forking Paths. Kunstforeiningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, traveled to Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland
Over Our Heads: The Image of Water in Contemporary Art. San Jose
Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.
Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand/Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Das Mass der Dinge. Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany; Galerie Im Traklhaus, Saltzburg, Austria
The Cottingley Fairies and Other Apparitions. The Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tenn.
La Collection II. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Internality Externality. Galerie Lelong, New York, N.Y.
1997
New Photography 13. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. October 24, 1997- January 13, 1998. New York.
New Faces and Other Recent Acquisitions. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Assi Esta la Cosa. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF, Mexico
Une Fleur des Photographes: L’Arum. Musée National de la Coopération Franco-Américaine, Château de Blérancourt, Blérancourt, France
Pool. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.
One Line Drawing. UBU Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Colleción Ordónez Falcón de Fotografia. IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez
Valencia, Spain
Artistes Latino-Americains. Daniel Templon, Paris, France
20 Years, Almost. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Hope. The National Arts Club, New York, N.Y.
Ut Scientia Pictura. Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1996
Wesenchau: Disingenuous Images. Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
Bis. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
The Subverted Object. UBU Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Recent Acquisitions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
Inclusion/Exclusion. Steirischer Herbst, curated by Peter Weibel, Graz, Austria
Some Assembly Required. The Art Institute of Chicago, curated by David Travis (three photographers), Chicago, Ill.
Novas Aquisições. Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Shadow Play. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Calif.
Material Matters. A.O.I. Gallery Santa Fe, N. Mex.
1995
Changing Perspectives. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Tex.
Panorama da Arte Contemporânea Brasileira. Museu de Arte Moderna, Curated by Ivo Mesquita, São Paulo, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mostra America. Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, Curitiba, Brazil
Recent Acquisitions. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.
The Photographic Condition. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif.
The Cultured Tourist. Center For Photography at Woodstock, curated by Leslie Tonkonow, Woodstock, N.Y.
Blindspot. The MAC, Dallas Artist Research and Exhibition, Dallas, Tex.
Garbage. Thread Waxing Space, New York, N.Y.
1994
Single Cell Creatures. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y.
Crash. The Thread Waxing Space, New York, N.Y.
Up the Stablishment: Reconstructing the Counterculture. Sonnabend Gallery, curated by Dan Cameron, New York, N.Y.
Garbage. Real Art Ways, curated by Ann Pasternak, Hartford, Conn.
Jetleg. Gallerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany
1993
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, N.Y.
The Alternative Eye: Photography for the ‘90s. Southern Alleghenies Museum, Loreto, Pa.
Time to Time. Castello di Rivara, curated by Luca Beatrice, Torino, Italy
Sound. Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Italy,
Post-Verbum. Pallazzo della Regione, Bergamo, Italy
1992
Life Size: Small, Medium, Large. Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Multiples. The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Conn. Detour. The International House, New York, N.Y.
The Collection. Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Les Enfants Terribles. Wooster Gardens, New York, N.Y.
Gallery Artists. Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
Theoretically Yours. Regione Autonoma Della Valle d'Aosta, Aosta, Italy
1991
Mike Kelley/Vik Muniz/Jim Shaw. Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.
The Encompassing Eye, Photography as Drawing. University Art Galleries, University of Akron, Ohio
The Neighborhood. A.I.R., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anni Novanta. Galleria d'Arte Moderna, curated by Renato Barilli and Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Comune di Bologna, Italy
Real Fake. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Outside America. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
The Fetish of Knowledge. Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.
1990
Non Sculpture. Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Nertherlands
Constructed Illusion. Pace MacGill Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Assembled. Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
On the Edge Between Sculpture and Photography. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1989
De Rozeboomkamer. Beeldenroute Foundation, Diepenheim, Holland
Wortlaut: Konzepte Zwischen Visueller Poesie & Fluxus. Galerie Schuppenhauer, Cologne, West Germany