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2026

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shows

A Olho Nu at CCBB (Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil), Rio de Janeiro, May 20 – September 07, 2026

2025

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shows

A Olho Nu (With the Naked Eye) at MAC Bahia (Museu de Arte Contemporânea Bahia), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, December 12, 2025 – April 10, 2026
Threads: Vik Muniz at Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, November 5 – December 25
Brushstrokes at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, June 5 – September 19
Live Cash (Dinheiro Vivo) at Galeria Multiarte, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, March 28 – May 31
A OIho Nu (With the Naked Eye) at Instituto Ricardo Brennand in Recife, Brazil, June 13 – August 31
Irradiar: para construir instituições de gente at Solar, Rio de Janeiro – December 6, 2025 – March 31, 2026

2024

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series

Brushstrokes
Legal Tender

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Scraps and Legal Tender at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, March 22 – April 27
Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary – New Britain Museum of American Art
Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun, After Van Gogh at Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Dubai, UAE, February 22 – March 30
Photocubism at Galería Elba Benítez, September 12 – November 16, 2024

2023

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Flora Industrialis

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Gibi at Bienal Pavilion at SP-Arte 2023, São Paulo, Brazil, March 29 – April 2
Dinheiro Vivo (Live Cash) – Vik Muniz at Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, March 4 – April 29, 2023
Pictures of Garbage at Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Online Exhibition, New York, NY, February 10 – March 5
Fotocubismo at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, April 20 – May 26
Fotocubismo at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 6 – June 30
Flora Industrialis at Museo Universidad de Navarra, Spain, October 18, 2023 – March 1, 2024
Gibi at Nichido Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, April 14 – June 3
Vik Muniz: Surfaces at Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, November 22, 2023 – March 9, 2024

2022

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Dinheiro Vivo – Live Cash
Repro

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Vik Muniz: Scraps at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York, USA, February 17 – April 9, 2022
Vik Muniz: A Brief History of Art at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, February 1 – April 5
Vik Muniz at Galerie Xippas, Geneva, Switzerland, September 16 – October 29

2021

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Photoclimat Biennial. Place des Voges, Paris, France. October 7 – January 23, 2022.
Photocubism at Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, November 10 – December 23, 2021
Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary at Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT, June 18 – November 27

2020

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Surfaces at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco , CA, June 12 – August 29
Vik Muniz: Grand Tour at Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 5, 2020 – February 11, 2021
Vik Muniz at Museo Universidad Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, September 23, 2020 – March 21, 2021

2019

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Vik Muniz: Pictures of Paint and Museum of Ashes.
Album and Postcards at Nichido Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, April 9 – May 11
Hand Remade at Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA, June 8 – September 29
Imaginária at Yu Un: The Obayashi Collection in Tokyo, Japan, July 1 – September 29
Imaginária at Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Solar do Unhão, Salvador, Bahia, July 5 – August 31
Handmade at Paulo Darzé Galeria, Salvador, Brazil, July 5 – August 10
Real Pictures at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, June 7 – September 15
Surfaces at Baronian Xippas Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, November 13 – December 21
Handmade at Xippas, Geneva, Switzerland, September 12 – November 2
Pictures of Paint and Museum of Ashes at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, October 10 – November 16
Superfícies (Surfaces) at Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, October 24 – December 21
Vik Muniz Traveling Retrospective at Sarasota Museum of Art – Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, December 14, 2019 – March 9, 2020

2018

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Imaginaria

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Die Kunst der Simulation | The Art of Simulation
Vik Muniz: Verso at the Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria, March 21 – June 17, 2018
Vik Muniz at Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia, June 8 – October 10
Photography and the Rebirth of Wonder at Chrysler Museum of Art, Nrofolk, VA, July 13 – October 14
Imaginária. Galeria Nara Roesler, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 30 – December 20, 2018
Chocolate, Ink, Soil, Cotton Balls and Thread at James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA, July 30 – August 18
Vik Muniz at Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, February 2 – March 11
Vik Muniz: Handmade at Xippas Gallery, Paris, France, September 8 – October 20

2017

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Epistemes at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, USA, February 23 – April 1
Vik Muniz at MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico
Vik Muniz: Handmade at Elba Benitez Gallery
Metachromes at Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, January 18 – March 11
Handmade at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September 9 – October 28
Afterglow: Pictures of Ruins at Palazzo Cini, Venice, Italy, April 21 – July 24
Handmade at Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, September 14 – November 4
Lampedusa at Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, November 11, 2017 – June 10, 2018
Handmade at Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, November 30, 2017 – February 23, 2018

2016

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Handmade

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Vik Muniz at High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Vik Muniz: Verso, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands, June 9 – September 4, 2016
Vik Muniz in the Collection of Géraldine and Lorenz Baumer, Maison Europeenne de La Photographie: MEP, Paris, France, June 15 – August 28
Vik Muniz: Metachromes at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK, October 6 – November 12
Vik Muniz, Traveling retrospective – Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana, October 1, 2016 – February 5, 2017
Vik Muniz, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China, March 18 – May 8
Vik Muniz: Pictures of America – Xippas Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland, January 16 – March 5

2015

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series

Lampedusa

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Ben Brown Fine Arts, Vik Muniz: Album
Muntref: Vik Muniz
Museu Vale: Vik Muniz
Galería Elba Benítez: 25 Años

2014

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series

Sand Castles
Album
Colonies

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“Pictures of Anything” at Long Museum, Shanghai
Closer To The Image – MAC Lima
Tel Aviv Museum of Art: Pictures of Anything
“Poetics of Perception” at Virginia MOCA
“Album” at Galeria Nara Roesler, Rio de Janeiro

2013

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series

Postcards from Nowhere

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Travessias 2 – Bela Maré Galpão
Tweet. Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY. September 24 – January 25.
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness – Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Clayton Days | Revisited: A Project by Vik Muniz
Group Show – Somos Libres, MATE

2012

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series

Pictures of Magazine 2
Scrap Metal
Colonies

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Vik Muniz – CAC Málaga
Pictures of Magazine 2 – Rena Bransten Gallery
Vik Muniz – Mint Museum
Pictures of Magazines 2 – Ben Brown Fine Arts
Vik Muniz – Galería Elba Benítez

2011

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series

Pictures of Magazine 2

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The Imaginary Museum at Collection Lambert in Avignon
Relicário – Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Pictures of Garbage – Berardo Collection Museum

2010

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series

Relicário
Pictures of Paper (Color)

shows

New Works – Rena Bransten Gallery
Verso – Fortes Vilaça
Vik Muniz – Sikkema, Jenkins & co.
Pictures of Paper – Nichido Contemporary Art
Relicário – Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim
Vik Muniz – Xippas

2009

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shows

Vik Munoz – Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo
Vik Muniz – Museu de Arte Moderna
Pictures of Garbage – Arndt & Partner
Vik Muniz – Museu Oscar Niemeyer

2008

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series

Pictures of Garbage
Pictures of Paper
Verso
Gordian Puzzles
Verso (NY Times Photos)

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Muniz: Remastered – Museo de Las Americas
Pictures of Paper – Rena Branstein Gallery
Reflex: Mexico
This is Vik Muniz – CB Collection Roppongi

2007

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shows

Vik Muniz – Moscow House of Photography
The Beautiful Earth – Fortes Vilaça Gallery
Reflex: Montreal
Vik Muniz – Gary Tatintsian Gallery
The Beautiful Earth – Paço das Artes
Misumi Collection
A Terra e a Gente – Museu da Eletricidade

2006

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series

Pictures of Pigment
Pictures of Junk – Sikkema Jenkins & Co

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Reflex: USF
Bulfinch’s Recycling Yard: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk
Reflex: Seattle Art Museum
Reflex: Miami Art Museum
Pictures of Pigment – Xippas Gallery

2005

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series

The Weimar Files
Self Portraits
Fashion Of The Times
Mounds
Earthworks (Vale do Rio Doce)

shows

Best of Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz – Cardi Gallery
Narcissus: Vik Muniz Self Portraits

2004

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series

Still Life
Pictures of Caviar
The Weimar Files
Pictures of Diamonds

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Vik Muniz – Brent Sikkema Gallery
Irish Museum of Contemporary Art
Diamond Divas and Caviar Monters – Xippas Gallery

2003

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Monads
Pictures of Magazines
Rebus

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Monadic Works and Photographs – Fortes Vilaça Gallery
Pictures of Magazine – Paco Imperial
Vik Muniz – CGAC
MACRO

2002

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series

Pictures Of Color
Carcere, After Piranesi
Model Pictures
Earthworks

shows

Vik Muniz – Joan Miro Foundation
Vik Muniz – Cardi Gallery
The Menil Collection

2001

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Pictures Of Clouds
Labyrinth, after Francesco Segala
Erotica

shows

Venice Biennial 2001
The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust – Whitney Museum of American Art
Museu de Arte Moderna – Rio de Janeiro
Museu de Arte Moderna – São Paulo
Vik Muniz – Galeria Elba Benitez
Erotica – Xippas Gallery

2000

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series

Pictures of Air
Beggars, After Rembrandt
Pictures of Dust
Clayton Days
Pictures of Ink
Pillows, after Dürer
Invisible Object

shows

Corcoran Biennial
Clayton Days – The Frick Art and Historical Center

1999

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series

After Warhol
Light Filters

shows

Seeing is Believing – Museum of Contemporary Photography
Aftermath and Sugar Children – Liverpool Biennial (1999)

1998

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series

Aftermath
Flora Industrialis (1998)
Philosophers

1997

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series

Pictures Of Soil
Pictures Of Chocolate
Pictures Of Holes
Earthworks (Brooklyn)

shows

Seeing is Believing – International Center of Photography
MoMA New Photography 13 (1997)

1996

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series

Sugar Children

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Some Assembly Required
The Best of Life – Wooster Gardens

1995

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series

Displacements

1994

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series

Pictures of Thread
Pictures of Wire
Photographs

1993

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Shadowgrams
Equivalents

1992

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Individuals

shows

Life Sizes: Small, Medium, Large
Home Alone – Claudio Botello Contemporary

1990

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shows

On The Edge Between Sculpture and Photography
Installation – Meyers/Bloom Gallery

1989

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series

The Best Of Life

1988

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shows

Vik Muniz – Stux Gallery

1987

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Relics

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