Biography

Ernesto Neto (Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto)
was born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.He lives and
works in Rio de Janeiro.

Education:

Escola de Artes Visuais Pargua Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Solo Exhibitions:

2010

Intimacy, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hanne Beate Ueland and Grete Årbu

Dengo (upcoming), Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
Curated by Felipe Chaimovich
http://www.masp.art.br/masp2010/index.php

Dancing Allowed, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Curated by Raphaela Platow
http://contemporaryartscenter.org/ernesto-neto
http://contemporaryartscenter.org/content.jsp?articleId=342    

The Edges of the World, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Curated by Dr Cliff Lauson
http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/
http://festivalbrazil.southbankcentre.co.uk/ernesto-neto/   

Navedenga, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Organized by Doryun Chong, Associate Curator, and Nora Lawrence, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture
download pressrelease as pdf
 

2009

anthropodino, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Curated by Tom Eccles
http://www.armoryonpark.org/index.php/programs_events/detail/ernesto_neto_in_the_wade_thompson_drill_hall/  

Ernesto Neto, A culpa civilizada, Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
”A Culpa civilizada (Civilized Guilt)” is a re-working of Ernesto Neto’s well-known installation piece “Léviathan Thot,” originally shown in 2006 at the Panthéon in Paris during the Autumn Festival.
Curated by Blandine Chavanne and Alice Fleury, director and contemporary art coordinator of the gallery, respectively
http://artobserved.com/go-see-nantes-france-ernesto-neto-civilized-guilt-at-musee-des-beaux-arts-de-nantes-through-september-21-2009/

Mitodengo, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

http://www.fortesvilaca.com.br/exposicoes/2009/118-ernesto-neto/?user_lang=en 

2008

Ernesto Neto – Mentre niente accade/ while nothing happens, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
The project that Neto has created especially for MACRO Hall is a large installation that takes up the entire area of the Museum’s glazed gallery, forming a sort of floating architecture with organic and floral shapes that invite the visitor to go through and interact with them. The sculpture, which is attached to the gallery’s glass roof trusses, is suspended about one metre from the ground. 
The Lycra contains ground spices: pepper, cumin, cloves, ginger and curcuma. The almost anaesthetising aroma of the spices totally envelop our sense of smell, conjuring up familiar or distant flavours and memories, just as the sculptural forms invite us to touch and feel the work with our hands, and listen in silence.
Curated by Dobrila Denegri
http://en.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/ernesto_neto_mentre_niente_accade_while_nothing_happens

Ernesto Neto: …Ai…ai…, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/exhibit.php

Ernesto Neto, I8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
http://www.i8.is/?s=7&sID=132

2007

From Sebastian to Olivia, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
http://www.maxhetzler.com/1036.0.html

É a vida, o espaço interior; Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.arturfidalgo.com.br/

There are two people kissing, while they love each other, they dream with a better world, with their kids that didn’t come yet and the future… of the human beings, the earth and the life, MIMOCA, Marugame, Japan

Ernesto Neto, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA, USA
http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/186/
 

2006

From what are we made, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/exhibit.php?exhibit_id=158

Léviathan Thot, Panthéon, Paris. Part of 35th Festival d’Automne, Panthéon, Paris, France
http://festival-automne.com/en/programme.php?programme_id=79

in | out, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/exhibitions_en/ernest-netoexhibition-2006_en/

out | in, Ernesto Neto, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/artists_en/neto_en/

How to put it up, dulcieneia! Galerie Bob von Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.bobvanorsouw.ch/content.cfm?ID=283

Ernesto Neto-The Malmö Experience, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
http://www.konsthall.malmo.se/o.o.i.s?id=3227

2005

Ernesto Neto, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
http://www.imamuseum.org/exhibition/ernesto-neto

Tratatus IDeuses, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria

Ernesto Neto, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, centre d’art contemporain, Bignan, France
http://www.art-kerguehennec.com/expos/neto.htm

Now Strong Balls,…, lines and colors, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
http://www.fortesvilaca.com.br/exposicoes/2005/54-agora-bolas/

There is Nothing Else to Be Seen but the World, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

2004

Ernesto Neto - 4 Artists and I, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
http://www.butlergallery.com/sitefiles/ExhibitionsPast.html

Desorientation by beauty, Project Room, De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
http://www.depont.nl/en/press/press-releases/release/pers/ernesto-neto/

Ernesto Neto, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
http://www.fabricworkshop.org/exhibitions/neto.php

Ernesto Neto, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
http://www.maxhetzler.com/648.0.html?&presslistview_referrer=%2F1036.0.html...

Citoplasma e Organóides, Projeto Respiração, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2003

The silent cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York , NY, USA
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/exhibit.php

Ernesto Neto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
Curated by Alma Ruiz
http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=340

Ernesto Neto, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brasil

2002

Passing Time, Passing Space, The Aarhus Art Building, Aarhus, Denmark

Directions-Ernesto Neto, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
Curated by Olga Viso
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/view.asp?key=22&subkey=117

Ernesto Neto, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/exhibitions/archive/37?lang=en

Genealogy of Life, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

Ernesto Neto, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/archived/2003/ernesto_neto

Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

2001

A Maximum Minumum time space between us and the parsimonious universe, Matrix 190,
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
Curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/press/release/PR0023

Only the amoebas are happy, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NYC, USA
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/exhibit.php

A paisagem do corpo/O corpo da paisagem, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

Horizonte de eventos / Ravessage, Laura Marciaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2000

O Casamento – Lili, Neto, Lito e os loucos, MAM do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Stella Nave, University of Essex, Colchester, UK; SITE Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ueclaa/english/exhibitions/ernestoneto/index.htm

Acontece num fim de tarde, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, Sao Pãulo, Brazil

Ernesto Neto, Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, Australia

If my body was not so far, maybe it would be not so close, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain

Sister Naves, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA

Ernesto Neto, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

1999

Nhó Nhó Nave, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA

Ernesto Neto, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

1998

poff, poff, poff, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrilo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico

Navedenga and the ovaloids, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, NYC, USA

1997

Puff, paff, piff…poff, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NYC, USA

Esculturas, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal

Nave Óvulo, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

Ernesto Neto, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal, Brasilia, Brazil

1996

Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain

Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL. USA

Espacio 204, Caracas, Venezuela

1994

ComCreta Sonho, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

1993

Quase Desenhos, Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1992

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

1991

Éden, Galeria de Arte do IBEU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Éden, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

1990

Colônias, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil

Pólipos, Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1989


Copulônia, Galeria Macunaíma, FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1988

BarraBola, Petit Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (2005-2010)

2010

29th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil

New Décor, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London; traveling to the Garage Centre, Moscow, Russia

Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, curated by Nathalie Karg/Cumulus Studios, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY

Tropicália. Die 60s in Brasilien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Communication Networks, City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Capturing Dimensions – Skulpturen und Objekte, Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich, Switzerland

2009

Anabasis. Rituals of Homecoming, Ludwik Grohman Villa, Lodz, Poland

Silent Writings: Writing, print, traces, Palazzo Dugnani, Milano, Italy

MEMORIAL revisitado, 20 anos, Memorial da América latina, São Paulo, Brazil

Desenhos [Drawings]: A-Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal

Exhibition 5 Bones, 21_21 Design sight, Tokyo

Silent Writings, Espace Louis Vuitton, France

Experiências Contemporâneas: Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça no MAC USP, Espaço Cultural
Marcantonio Vilaça, Brasília, Brazil

After Utopia - a view on Brazilian contemporary art, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Istituto Internazionale Studi sul Futurismo, Milano, Italy

When Lives Become Form-Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960-present, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

Don’t stare at the sun – Works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland

Glasshouse Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia

Brazil Contemporary, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

History of Violence, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

Nudes, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

2008

Novas montagens das obras de Alexandre da Cunha, Ernesto Neto e Janine Antoni, Praça Galery,
Brumadinho, Brazil

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

Sand: Memory, Meaning, and Metaphor, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA

Order Desire Light: An exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

It is Not Neutral: Daros Latin American Collection, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Tabakalera, San Sebastián, Spain

Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

De Perto e de Longe – Paralela 08, Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de Sao Pãulo, Brazil

Container Art, Parque Vila Lobos, Sao Pãulo, Brazil

Blooming Now! – Brazilian Contemporary Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan

19 desarranjos – panorama da Arte Brasileira 2003, Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica Bogotá, Colombia
PARANGOLÉ. Fragmentos desde los 90 en Brasil, Portugal y España, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain

Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA

Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I, Miami MOCA, Miami, FL, USA

When Lives Become Form: Creative Power from Brazil, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,
Hiroshima, Japan
Autoreverse, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland

Private Passions, Public Visions, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

Held Together with Water - A selection from the Verbund Collection with leading names of contemporary art, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey

Call it what you like! Collection Rik  Reinking, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark

Poética da Percepção, Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Connecting thread, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

The implications of image, MUAC Mexico City, Mexico

2007

Arte para criança, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Acting in Utopia, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria

Retalhar, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tropicália, uma revolução na cultura Brasileira MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Por um fio, CPFL Campinas, Sao Pãulo, Brazil

Close to me, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

Arte para criança, Museu Vale do Rio doce Vitória, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Held together with water, MAK, Vienna, Austria

1980/95, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Pãulo, Brazil

ICA 60 the anniversary edition, London, UK

PNCA Hessel Museum Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006. Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NYC, USA

Encompassing the Globe - Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

To be continued..., Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

De leur temps(2) Art Contemporain Et Collections Privees, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Drawing is a Verb, Porta 33, Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Material, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NYC, USA

Melting Point, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Space for Your Future: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Don't Look, Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection (Martina Yamin, Class of 1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

Reykjavik Triennial, Reykjavik, Iceland

Novel Readings, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

The Hours, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA

Speed #1, IVAM Institute of Modern Art Valencia, Valencia, Spain

2006

Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Portugal

Gardens, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture at the Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NYC, USA

Abrigo poético: Diálogos com Lygia Clark, MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Niterói, Brazil
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan

Surprise, surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Brazil in Zurich: Seduced to art by art, Daros Exhibitions, Löwenbräu-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland

The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens, Athens, Greece

Sublime Embrace, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON, Canada

Choque Cultural na Fortes Vilaça - Fortes Vilaça na Choque Cultural, Sao Pãulo, Brazil

Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, Barbican Gallery, London, UK

Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal

Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany

Coleção MAMAM, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhaes, Recife, Brazil

Busy Going Crazy - Sylvio Perlstein Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

The Hours, Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Contemporary Sculpture, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NYC, USA

ARTISTS FOR TICHY - TICHY FOR ARTISTS, East Bohemian Gallery of Fine Arts, Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Germany; Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic

Chers amis, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, centre d’art contemporain, Bignan, France

Unlimited, Art 37 Basel 2006, Basel, Switzerland
20 Desarreglos, Arte Contemporáneo de Brasil, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Seduçoes. Valeska Soares, Cildo Meireles und Ernesto Neto, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland

2005

Troca Brasil, The Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, USA

150 Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA

Contained, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NYC, USA

Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NYC, USA

Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark

Bresil = Foot Art, Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris, France

A Imagem do Som de Dorival Caymmi, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

Educação, Olha!, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

La Caixa Collection. 20 Years with Contemporary Art New Acquisitions, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain

Deseos Fluidos: Brazilian and Cubans Perspectives between Reality and Fantasy, Thyssen-
Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

5º Bienal de Arte do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

O Corpo onde não há, Festival d’Automne, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris, France

J’en rêve, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France

Desenhos: A – Z Collecção Madeira Corporate Services, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

20 Desarreglos: Panorama del Arte Brazileira, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain

A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston