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