Author Archives: Vik Muniz Studio

Scraps and Legal Tender

This gallery contains 14 photos.

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present Scraps and Legal Tender, a solo exhibition of two new series by Vik Muniz. For these series,…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Surfaces

This gallery contains 6 photos.

Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA Exhibition date are TBA

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Pictures of Paint and Museum of Ashes.

This gallery contains 17 photos.

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. October 10 – November 16, 2019. Photos by Jason Wyche.

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Handmade. Xippas Gallery, Gèneve.

Camo 2, 2019. Vik Muniz: Handmade September 12 – November 2. Xippas Gallery Rue des Sablons 6 & Rue des Bains 61, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland…

Posted in Featured, News, Show, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Masterclass Artist, Vik Muniz: El Ilusionista

VIK MUNIZ: EL ILUSIONISTA Wednesday, March 20, 2019. 12:00. Museo Universidad de Navarra Calle Universidad, 2-058, 31009 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain For more info click here.

Posted in Featured, News, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Handmade – Xippas Gallery, Paris

Vidigal, 2018. Vik Muniz: Handmade Xippas Gallery, Paris September 8th – October 20th, 2018 Opening: September 8th, 2018, from 3 pm Xippas Gallery is pleased…

Posted in Featured, News, Show, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Photography and the Rebirth of Wonder

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Vik’s Mural at Brasilian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan

This gallery contains 5 photos.

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz talk at Magazzino Art Gallery

Vik Muniz’s Mappa del Mondo, after Alighiero Boetti (Pictures of Pigment), 2009. Courtesy of Olnick Spanu Collection, New York. Guest Lecture: Vik Muniz May 6,…

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

Roesler Hotel #28: Screenspace, curated by Vik Muniz, Lucas Blalock and Barney Kulok

This gallery contains 18 photos.

Galeria Nara Roesler | São Paulo Opening: April 10, 2018 7pm Exhibition: April 11 – May 30, 2018 Monday – Friday: 10am – 7pm Saturdays:…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Die Kunst der Simulation | The Art of Simulation

This gallery contains 8 photos.

February 18 – May 6, 2018 ACC Galerie Weimar Burgpl. 1, 99423 Weimar, Germany Pictures by Claus Bach.

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Verso at Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Vik Muniz: Verso 21 March 2018 to 17 June 2018 Telling a story in an intimate, covert, often encrypted way, the back of each painting…

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Tagged , , | Comments Off

JELLY, GARBAGE + TOYS

JELLY, GARBAGE + TOYS Making Pictures with Vik Muniz We want to prepare kids to live in a very visually challenging environment and to be…

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

VIK MUNIZ: Shifts in scale, photographic manipulation and unexpected materials

This gallery contains 1 photo.

At MIT, artist Vik Muniz has pursued his interests in image production and visual literacy, working with researchers in biology, optics and engineering. In collaboration…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Handmade at Nichido Contemporary Art

This gallery contains 11 photos.

September 14 – November 4, 2017 Nichido Contemporary Art Daiwa京橋ビル 東京 都 中央 区 八丁堀 4 丁目 3−3, 4 Chome-3-3 Hatchobori, Chuo, Tokyo 104-0032, Japan

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Handmade

2017 9.14 – 11.4 Opening Reception: Galerie Nichido (5-3-16 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) | September 14th (Thu.) 18:00 – 20:00 (Artist in attendance) galerie nichido and…

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Tagged , | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Handmade at Elba Benitez Gallery

This gallery contains 8 photos.

September 14 – November 2017 Photographs by Luis Asín, courtesy of Elba Benitez Gallery.

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz at Elba Benitez Gallery

Vik Muniz: Handmade Thursday, September 14th – November 2017 Entitled Handmade, the exhibition will consist mixed-media abstract works that juxtapose photographic images with physical material,…

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Comments Off

Vik Muniz at Rena Bransten Gallery

VIK MUNIZ: HANDMADE September 9 – October 28, 2017 Artist Talk September 9, 2-4 pm Minnesota Street Project Atrium Reception immediately following RSVP HERE Rena…

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Comments Off

Glasstress 2017

Vik Muniz will participate in Glasstress Venice 2017 May 11–November 26, 2017 GLASSTRESS 2017: Palazzo Franchetti San Marco 2847 Venice Italy Hours: Daily 10am–6:30pm Berengo…

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Afterglow: Pictures of Ruins at Palazzo Cini, Venice.

Palazzo Cini Campo San Vio, Dorsoduro 864 21 Venice, Italy April 21 – July 24 2017 The exhibition season opens with the first ever showing…

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Comments Off

Vik Muniz at MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico

This gallery contains 8 photos.

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. Calle Juan Zuazua s/n, Centro, 64000 Monterrey, N.L., Mexico March 10 – June 11,2017 Visit MARCO’s website…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz On Saul Leiter And Robert Frank

HUMAN INTEREST: VIK MUNIZ ON SAUL LEITER AND ROBERT FRANK March 31, 2017 Visit Whitney’s website

Posted in Featured, News | Tagged , | Comments Off

Epistemes

This gallery contains 4 photos.

Images courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co. February 23 – April 1, 2017 Sikkema Jenkins & Co. 530 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011

More Galleries | Comments Off

Epistemes

Epistemes February 23 – April 1, 2017 Sikkema Jenkins & Co. 530 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 23, 6-8PM…

Posted in Featured, News, Show, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Metachromes

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London 12 Brook’s Mews London W1K 4DG October 6 – November 12 Mon – Fri 11am – 6pm Sat 10.30am –…

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Comments Off

Handmade

Galeria Nara Roesler Avenida Europa 655 Jardim Europa 01449-001 São Paulo, Brasil September 03 – October 5th, 2016 Monday – Friday 10am – 7pm Saturday…

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Verso

Mauritshuis Museum Plein 29, 2511 CS Den Haag, Netherlands. June 9 – September 4 This summer the Mauritshuis will reveal another side to its character….

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Comments Off

Vik Muniz at Pratt Institute

Pratt Presents: A President’s Lecture Series Event with Vik Muniz with Spencer Bailey, Editor-in-Chief of Surface Co-presented by Surface and Pratt School of Art’s Fine…

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

Vik Muniz at FofoFest 2016 Biennial: Changing Cirumstances

Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet Fotofest 2016 Biennial The Silos at Sawyer Yards 1502 Sawyer Street Houston, TX 77007 713-223-5522 March…

Posted in Featured, News, Show | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: The Illusionist

Vik Muniz repurposes everyday materials, such as chocolate, ash, dirt, peanut butter, and jelly, to create intricate and heavily layered trompe l’oeil renderings, often of…

Posted in Library, Other Articles | Comments Off

Vik Muniz and Arthur Ollman at NYPL (Podcast)

Wednesday March 30, 2016

Posted in Interviews, Library | Comments Off

The Impossible Object

By Vik Muniz 1991 When the industrial productive capacity ultrapassed society’s consume capacity the product became less important than its image. We live today in…

Posted in Articles by Vik, Library, Other Articles | Comments Off

Text for Relicário Exhibition in the House of Culture Laura Alvim

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português.

Posted in Library, Other Articles | Comments Off

New York Times: Vik Muniz: ‘Pictures of Magazines 2’

By Roberta Smith September 15, 2011 Sikkema Jenkins & Company 530 West 22nd Street, Chelsea Through Oct. 15 The photographer Vik Muniz operates with impunity…

Posted in Library, Press Articles | Comments Off

C Photo: A Local Triumph

By Vik Muniz C Photo, Issue #4: New Latin Look – Nueva Mirada Latina Ivory Press January 2012 In my mind, the visual history of…

Posted in Articles by Vik, Library, Press Articles | Comments Off

The Beautiful Earth (Pictures of Pigment, Earthworks and Pictures of Junk)

by Vik Muniz “Interesting Phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that…

Posted in Articles by Vik, Library, Other Articles | Comments Off

New York Times: At M.I.T., Science Embraces a New Chaos Theory: Art.

By Hilarie M. Sheets March 6, 2016 As a graduate student at the respected M.I.T. Media Lab, Marcelo Coelho collaborated with the artist Vik Muniz…

Posted in Library, Press Articles | Comments Off

Arthur Ollman: Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz is celebrated for his joyful, quirky, dark, and occasionally mind-boggling work that riffs on popular photographic imagery, referencing social icons and cultural realities…

Posted in Library, Publications | Comments Off

New York Public Library, Artist Dialogue Series: Vik Muniz and Arthur Ollman

Vik Muniz, Arthur Ollman | An Artist Dialogue Series Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m. Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street New York, NY,…

Posted in News | Comments Off

Vik Muniz at Matthew Liu Fine Arts

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Vik Muniz Matthew Liu Fine Arts March 18 – May 08, 2015. Suite 201-203, 115 Yuan Ming Yuan Road, Huang Pu District, Shanghai, 200002, China…

More Galleries | Comments Off

High Museum of Art, Atlanta: Vik Muniz

This gallery contains 5 photos.

High Museum of Art, Atlanta: Vik Muniz February 28 – August 21, 2016 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309

More Galleries | Comments Off

Class dismissed: Art, Creativity and Education

Class dismissed: Art, Creativity and Education Ivorypress 2015 by Vik Muniz First of all, I would like to thank all of you here. I have…

Posted in Articles by Vik, Library | Comments Off

(Português) Pensando con Vik: Fragmentos de un diálogo

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português.

Posted in Interviews, Library | Comments Off

Jacaranda Magazine: Conversation with Vik Muniz

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português.

Posted in Interviews, Library, Press Articles | Comments Off

Landing Pelicans

Text by Vik Muniz For Holt Quentel Exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum- Nov 15, 2013- January 19, 2014 Published in the catalogue accompanying the…

Posted in Articles by Vik, Library | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: Pictures of America

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Vik Muniz Pictures of America Galerie Xippas Geneva January 15 – March 5, 2016 Opening Thursday, January 14 at 6:00 p.m. Exhibition website Rue des…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Coming in 2016: Everything So Far, Vik Muniz

  Vik Muniz: Catalog Raisonné 1987-2015 Everything So Far After the success of the first edition published in 2009, Capyvara Publishers in partnership with BNP Paribas Foundation,…

Posted in Library, Other Articles, Publications | Comments Off

Verso: Vik Muniz

This gallery contains 1 photo.

9 June – 4 September 2016 at The Mauritshuis in the Netherlands. The Mauritshuis sheds new light on its collection through a special collaboration with…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz: The Illusionist

Penny Stamps Speaker Series Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 5:10 pm. Located at the historic Michigan Theater: 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor….

Posted in News | Comments Off

Le Beaux Arts: Vik Muniz

This gallery contains 4 photos.

La Fabrique de L’image: Vik Muniz November 8 2015 – January 31 2016 Le Beaux Arts 14 Rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, France

More Galleries | Comments Off

Museu Vale: Vik Muniz

This gallery contains 3 photos.

Museu Vale: Vik Muniz October 16 2015 – February 14 2016 Antiga Estação Pedro Nolasco Av. Anézio José Simões, s/n – Argolas, Vila Velha –…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Galería Elba Benítez: 25 Años

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Galería Elba Benítez: 25 Años   September 10th – November 7 2015   Calle San Lorenzo, 11, 28004 Madrid, Spain

More Galleries | Comments Off

Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz

Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz Otherwise known as one of the art world’s rising young stars, the Brazilian artist invites viewers…

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

Xippas: Vik Muniz

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Xippas Galleries: Vik Muniz   June 6 2015 – July 31 2015   Xippas Gallery 108 Rue Vieille du Temple, 75004 Paris, France

More Galleries | Comments Off

Muntref: Vik Muniz

This gallery contains 4 photos.

Muntref: Vik Muniz May 21 – September 14 2015   MUNTREF Contemporary Art Center: Headquarters Hotel of Immigrants Av. Antártida Argentina 1355 (between National Migration…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Lampedusa is a floating installation to be launched during the 56th Venice Biennale. For this public artwork, Vik Muniz employs his traditional use of unlikely…

Posted on by Vik Muniz Studio | Comments Off

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Vik Muniz at High Museum of Art

Thursday, April 16, 2015 7:00 pm Rich Theater at High Museum of Art Connect with photographer and mixed-media artist Vik Muniz, whose work has been…

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

High Museum: Vik Muniz

February 28 – August 21, 2016 The High will premiere a major retrospective of the work of celebrated contemporary photographer Vik Muniz as part of…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Group Show: Museum Studies at Berman Museum – Ursinus College

Museum Studies brings together artwork by twelve celebrated and influential contemporary artists, all of whom find inspiration in the vocabulary, procedures, and conventions of museum…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Ben Brown Fine Arts, Vik Muniz: Album

This gallery contains 6 photos.

Vik Muniz: Album Reception: Thursday January 29,6-8:30pm   January 16 – March 2015 Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

More Galleries | Comments Off

Album at Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Vik Muniz: Album January 16th to March 4th, 2015 Ben Brown Fine Arts is honoured to present the second solo exhibition in Hong Kong of…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Lampedusa

This gallery contains 3 photos.

More Galleries | Comments Off

“Small” at Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo

This gallery contains 1 photo.

October 24th – November 29, 2014 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11:00 am to 7:00 pm Small This exhibition showcases a selection of works from…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Artist Lecture at Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2014

Vik Muniz: Artist Lecture – Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2014 from Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Vimeo.

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

“Pictures of Anything” at Long Museum, Shanghai

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Long Museum, West Bund No. 3398, Longteng Avenue Xuhui District, Shanghai China In collaboration with: Ben Brown Fine Arts 301 Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street,…

More Galleries | Comments Off

“Album” at Galeria Nara Roesler, Rio de Janeiro

This gallery contains 17 photos.

A Galeria Nara Roesler tem o prazer de convidar para a mostra Album, de Vik Muniz. A mostra traz obras de duas séries recentes, Album…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie – Expositions 2014

Les Rencontres d’Arles Les Photographie July 7th – September 21st, 2014 Album présente deux travaux: la série éponyme Album ainsi que Postcards From Nowhere. Muniz…

Posted in News | Comments Off

“Mas Acá de la Imagen” at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito

May 24th-July 31st, 2014 Vik Muniz: Mas Acá de la Imagen Where: The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito http://www.centrodeartecontemporaneo.gob.ec/

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Santander Cultural Brazil

Vik Muniz The Size of the World Curated by Lygia Canongia Santander Cultura from May 21 to August 10, 2014 Tuesday – Saturday 10 to…

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

Humanitas, University of Oxford

May 5-9, 2014 Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Art at the University of Oxford at Magdalen College and the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine…

Posted in News, Public | Comments Off

Tel Aviv Museum of Art: Pictures of Anything

This gallery contains 1 photo.

“This comprehensive exhibition of Vik Muniz covers 25 years of the artist’s oeuvre, in which familiar images from the history of art and other sources are transformed in scale and…

More Galleries | Comments Off

“Album” at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present Album, an exhibition of new works by Vik Muniz on view from April 10 through May 10,…

Posted in News | Comments Off

Vik Muniz & The Creators Project: Sand Castle

From The Creators Project blog: After four years of trial-and-error experimentation, artist Vik Muniz and artist/researcher Marcelo Coelho successfully created drawings as tiny as they…

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

Blind Spot 20th Anniversary Issue: Guest Edited by Vik Muniz and Barney Kulok

Blind Spot Special 20th Anniversary Issue Guest Edited by Vik Muniz and Barney Kulok Featuring images by: Robert Adams, John Baldessari, Tina Barney, Uta Barth,…

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

Museu Picasso: Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions

This gallery contains 1 photo.

March 6th, 2014 to June 29th, 2014 Post-Picasso will be devoted to a select group of artists who have made very significant achievements in contemporary…

More Galleries | Comments Off

“Poetics of Perception” at Virginia MOCA

This gallery contains 15 photos.

Internationally recognized for his startling use of materials, Vik Muniz creates stunning images, while investigating the history of art and of visual reproduction. By employing diverse…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Students Rebuild: Water Challenge

Join me and Students Rebuild in making paper beads to bring clean water to over 16,000 people in Tanzania. Visit Water Challenge to learn how to help….

Posted in Featured, News | Comments Off

Closer To The Image – MAC Lima

This gallery contains 3 photos.

  Vik Muniz Closer To The Image – El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo – Lima Reception: Thursday, January 23rd, 8:00pm & Preceded by a roundtable…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Album

This gallery contains 3 photos.

More Galleries | Comments Off

Colonies

This gallery contains 3 photos.

More Galleries | Comments Off

Sand Castles

This gallery contains 3 photos.

More Galleries | Comments Off

Group Show – Somos Libres, MATE

This gallery contains 6 photos.

MATE, Asociacion Mario Testino in Lima, Peru, Announces it’s forthcoming exhibition, “Somos Libres”, an exhibition of contemporary art from the Mario Testino Collection, curated by Neville…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Clayton Days | Revisited: A Project by Vik Muniz

This gallery contains 2 photos.

July 13–October 27, 2013 In 1999 the Frick collaborated with contemporary artist Vik Muniz on a project that resulted in an exhibition of 65 photographs…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Travessias 2 – Bela Maré Galpão

This gallery contains 1 photo.

[Travessias 2] Convite encontro, sabado, 08/06, 16h From April 13th, the Bela Maré Galpão (barn) – located in the Maré Complex (RJ) – will be…

More Galleries | Comments Off

More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness – Minneapolis Institute of Arts

This gallery contains 2 photos.

Seeing is Disbelieving Over the past century, a period of unprecedented technological change and global social upheaval, once agreed-upon beliefs, or “truths,” have been cast…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Tweet. Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY. September 24 – January 25.

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Tweet – a chirp from a bird – an on-line posting of 140 characters or less For many the definition of tweet, a chirp from…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Fingerman Lecture 2013: VIK MUNIZ

Calendar | Fingerman Lecture 2013: VIK MUNIZ April 25, 2013 / 6:30 PM THIS LECTURE IS AT CAPACITY AND WE ARE NO LONGER TAKING RESERVATIONS….

Posted in Espacial, Featured, News, Public | Comments Off

Postcards from Nowhere

This gallery contains 3 photos.

More Galleries | Comments Off

Pictures of Magazines 2 – Ben Brown Fine Arts

This gallery contains 1 photo.

VIK MUNIZ Pictures of Magazines 2 November 21 2012 – February 8 2013 Private View Tuesday November 20 6-9 pm At BEN BROWN FINE ARTS,…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Buzz, Curated by Vik Muniz – Galeria Nara Roesler

This gallery contains 3 photos.

buzz – curated by vik muniz At galeria nara roesler aberturas/openings sábado/Saturday — 01.12.2012 – 16.2.2013 11h > 17h “Minha intenção através desta mostra é de poder…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz – Galería Elba Benítez

This gallery contains 1 photo.

VIK MUNIZ at Galería Elba Benítez November 16th, 2012 – January 19th, 2013 Opening: Thursday, November 15th San Lorenzo 11, 28004 Madrid • t (34)…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Verso – Art Masters St. Moritz

This gallery contains 8 photos.

“Whenever someone wants to see if an artwork is ‘real’, the first gesture is to look at its back or at its base; the part…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Pictures of Junk – Sikkema Jenkins & Co

This gallery contains 21 photos.

September 9 – October 14, 2006 Opening Reception: September 9, 6-8 pm Muniz uses photography to create images out of non-traditional materials – from chocolate…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Announcement

We are pleased to announce that Vik is now represented in Brazil by Nara Roesler Gallery. http://www.nararoesler.com.br/

Posted in News | Comments Off

Pictures Of Clouds

This gallery contains 3 photos.

More Galleries | Comments Off

Seeing is Believing – International Center of Photography

This gallery contains 1 photo.

International Center of Photography, New York SEPTEMBER 12–NOVEMBER 8, 1998 The images in this exhibition focus on work from fourteen of Vik Muniz’s photographic series…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Pictures of Ink

This gallery contains 1 photo.

by Vik Muniz In the series Pictures of Ink, I tried to make the viewer aware of the materiality of the printed medium by blowing…

More Galleries | Comments Off

Vik Muniz – Galeria Elba Benitez

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Madrid, Spain February 14, 2004 – March 31st, 2004 From 14 February to 31 March the Galeria Elba Beni­tez will display recent work by Vik…

More Galleries | Comments Off

The Unbearable Likeness of Being

The Unbearable Likeness of Being by Vik Muniz Hokusai tried to paint without the use of his hands. It is said that one day, having…

Posted in Articles by Vik, Library | Comments Off