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Tunga

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TUNGA

Born in Palmares, Brazil 1952
Died in 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

EDUCATION

1974 Faculdade de Arquitectura e Urbanismo Santa Ursula, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

AWARDS AND PRIZE

2005

Selected for the Artes Mundi prize, Wales, USA
2000

Hugo Boss Award (finalist), Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1998

Johnny Walker Prize, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1997

Acquisition Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi, Brazil


Acquisition Prize, Museum of Modern Art, Bahia, Brazil
Acquisition Prize, Museum of Modern Art, Recife, Brazil


Embratel Prize, Museum of Modern Art Sao Paulo, Brazil
30 years Prize, Museum of Modern Art Sao Paulo, Brazil

1986

Trienal Latino-americana de Arte sobre papel Prize, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1985

Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas, Venezuela

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

‘Tunga’, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2018

‘Tríade Trindade’, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ‘Tunga: Capillary Twins’, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom

‘Tunga: o rigor da distração’, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2017

‘Tunga: o corpo em obras’, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2016

‘Pálpebras’, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
‘Homenagem ao Tunga’, Centro de Arte Contemporanea Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil

2015

Solo presentation, Frieze Masters / Frieze Live, London, United Kingdom
‘Moi, Vous et la Lune’, Manège des Ecuries, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

‘Still and Yet’, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2018

‘Invention of Origin’, Pina_Estação, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

33a Bienal de São Paulo, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil

‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’, Auroras, São Paulo, Brazil
‘BRAZIL. Knife in the Flesh’, PAC Padiglione d’arte contemporanea di Milano, Milano, Italy ‘A Luta Continua: The Sylvio Perlstein Collection’, Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA

‘De Calder à Koons, bijoux d’artistes: la Coleccion idéale de Diane Venet’, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
‘Visiones de la tierra/ El mundo planeado: Coleccion Luis Paulo Montenegro’, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2017

‘The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

‘CASEBOOKS: Six Contemporary Artists and an Extraordinary Medical Archive’, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
‘ILLUMINATED – Pioneer Experiences in Expanded Cinema’, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil
‘Punto de Partida’, Fundación Cultural Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
‘Sol Lewitt, Andres Serrano, Joel Shapiro, Tunga, Andy Warhol’, Michel Vidal, Paris, France

Troposphere, Minsheng Museum, Beijing, China

2016

‘Invisible Adversaries’, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

‘Eu, Você e a Lua’, Art Unlimited, Art[47]Basel, Basel, Switzerland
‘Tanz der Seligen Geister / Dança das Sombras Felizes’, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

 

COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, Phoenix, USA
Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Museu d ́Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Niterói, Brazil
Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA


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