assume vivid astro focus (avaf)/Eli Sudbrack

Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2018
– Solo show at Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil (forthcoming)
2017
– “abstracto viajero andinos fetichizados“, MATE, Lima, Peru
– “ángeles veloces arcanos fugaces“, Faena Forum, Miami, USA
– “avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods“, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, USA
2016
– “Perimetrava“, a public art project in collaboration with OIR and Nike at Praça Marechal Âncora, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods“, MCA Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA
– “auch vögel altern früh“, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2015
– Permanent mural project for The Beacon High School through Public Art for Public Schools, New York, USA
– Permanent public art project for Bernard Tschumi’s À La Folie, Parc de la Vilette, Paris, France
– “axiomatic verve across fenestrations (contagious)“, CAC (Contemporary Arts Center), Cincinnati, USA
– Permanent mural project for The National Saw Dust, Brooklyn, USA
2014
– “ángeles veloces arcanos fugaces“, Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– “adderall valium ativan focalin (cantilevering me)“, The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, USA
– “Permanent wallpaper installation at KaDE’s cafeteria”, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2013
– “alisabel viril apagão fenomenal“, Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– “arms viable and fast”, The Armory Show, Focus Section, curated by Eric Shiner, New York, USA
2011
– “Cyclops Trannies“, The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, USA
– Featured artist of Art21 PBS series
2010
– “aqui vivimos atisbando fantasmas“, La Conservera, Murcia, Spain
– “artistiquement voué au feu“, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2009
– “affektert veggmaleri akselererende faenskap“, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
– “Menschen Tiere Sensationen/ancient vagrancy appolonian futurism”, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
– “Poprally”, MoMA, New York, USA
2008
– “ameixa vazio attack fátima”, Casa Triangulo, São Paulo
– “aqui volvemos adornos frivolos”, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
– “antonella varicella arabella fiorella”, public project for ENEL Contemporanea 2008, Rome, Italy
– “aimez vous avec ferveur”, special window project for MoMA, New York, USA
– “absolutely venomous accurately fallacious (naturally delicious)”, Deitch Projects New York, USA
2007
– “Concrete Waves: Homage to Skate Culture” (with Ryan McGinness and P.S.1, MoMA), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA
– “a very anxious feeling”, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
2006
– “abra vana alucinete fogo”, Galeria Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– “butch queen realness with a twist of pastel color“, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
– Open Call, Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna, Austria
– “absorb viral attack fantasy”, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan
2005
– “homocrap #2″, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
– “butch queen realness with a twist in pastel colors”, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2004
– “assume vivid astro focus XI”, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Private Collection, Miami, USA
– “Make It With You: A Slow Dance Club” (collaboration with Los Super Elegantes), Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
– “assume vivid astro focus IX“, a public art project with Central Park’s Dance Skaters Association sponsored by The Public Art Fund and in conjunction with the 2004 Whitney Biennial, New York, USA
2003
– “assume vivid astro focus VII”, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
– “assume vivid astro focus V”, Peres Projects, San Francisco, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
– “QueerMuseu – Cartografias da Diferença na Arte Brasileira”, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– “Histórias da Sexualidade“, MASP, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
– “New Shamans/Novos Shamans: Brazilian Artists”, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
– “Cordão dos Mentecaptos”, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Soft Power. Arte Brasil”, KaDE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
– “always vomit after formalities“, performance for Manifesta 11 at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
– “Structures of Power”, Diablo Rosso, Panama City, Panama
– “Greek Gotham“, Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece
– “Mycorial Theater”, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Transparência e Reflexo“, MuBE, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
– Group show at 11R, New York, USA
– “Coney Island Walls“, Coney Island, New York, USA
– “Inter Play: Architecture, Design and Art”, MMCA, Seoul, South Korea
– “Love Story: Works from Erling Kagges Collection”, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
2014
– “Pivô welcomes Casa Triângulo”, Casa Triângulo’s 25th Anniversary Show, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
– “15 Years And Counting“, Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Miami, USA
– “Natures Artificielles (Lille 3000)“, Lille, France
2012
– “Pop Politics”, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo CA2M, Madrid, Spain
– “The Lift: avaf, Kiki Smith, and Andrea Zittel”, Bloomberg in collaboration with Art21, New York, USA
– “In Living Color”, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
2011
– “The Space Between Now and Then“, Galleria OMR, Mexico City
– “Travessias“, Favela da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “New York Minute“, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
2010
– “Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection”, The New Museum, New York, USA
– “Demons, Yarns, and Tales”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
2009
– “Scorpio’s Garden“, Temporare Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
– “New York Minute“, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy
– “Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection”, MoMA, New York, US
2008     
– “axe vatapá alegria feijão”, 28th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
– “I/Legitimo”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Super #3”, an one night performance with Black Meteoric Star (Gavin Russom), Maison des Arts de Créteil, Paris, France
– “The Rocky Mountain People Show”, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
– “Cover”, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo, Brazil
– “When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the Future – Brazil, Japan”, MOT, Tokyo, Japan
– Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
– “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
– “A New High In Getting Low”, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
2007
– “shada shada La Chatte”, one-night performance, part of La Noche en Blanco, organized by Reina Sofia and ARCO, Matadero, Madrid, Spain
– “New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions”, MoMA, New York, USA
– “BoysCraft”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
– “Gravity’s Rainbow”, Peres Projects, Athens, Greece
– “Space For Your Future”, MOT, Tokyo, Japan
– “Playback”, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville Paris, Paris, France
– “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967”, MCA, Chicago, USA
– Rozamira Festival, Moscow, Russia
– “Destroy Athens”, 1st Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece
– “Fractured Figure: Works From the Dakis Joannou Collection”, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2006
– “Kamp K48”, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
– “Faces, bodies and contemporary signs of Ernesto Esposito’s collection”, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (MADRe), Naples, Italy
– “Contemporary Video Art from Brazil”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
– “Tropicália”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Barbican Centre, London, UK; and Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
– “Ninth Tropical Night – Pablo Internacional”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
– “Panic Room, works from the Dakis Joannou Collection“, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
– “Trial Ballons/Globos Sonda”, MUSAC, León, Spain
– “Infinite Painting”, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
– “The Garden Party”, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
2005
– “Ecstasy: In and About Altered States”, The GeffenContemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
– “Manchmal weiss ich nicht, ob ich etwas wirklich erlebt oder ob ich es in einem Film geshen habe”, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
– “Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol”, Andy Warhol Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA
– “Drone”, Vilma Gold, London, UK
2004
– “assume vivid astro focus VII”, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
– “Divided by Lightning”, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
– “Nocturnal Emissions”, Groninger Museum, Groninger, Netherlands
– “Byproducts of Work”, Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver, Canada
– “Carnaval”, Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Cave Canem”, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
– “Such Things I do Just to Make Myself More Attractive to You”, peres projects, Los Angeles, USA
– The 6th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Consolidated Works, Seattle, USA
2003
– “Fast Forward (Media Art from the Goetz Collection)”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
– “Study”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
– “Today’s Man”, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA, and Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
– “Corporate Profit vs. Labor Costs”, D’Amelio Terras, New York, USA
– “K48_Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show”, galerie du jour/agnes b., Paris, France
– “Karaoke Death Machine”, Daniel Reich, New York, USA
– “Life/Like”, Apartment 5BE, New York, USA
2002
– “Emerging Artists”, Rhona Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago, USA
– “K48_Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show”, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
– “High Desert Test Sites”, Joshua Tree, USA
– “End of the Rainbow”, Bellwether, New York, USA
– “222: 2002: Stardust: assume vivid astro focus and Kalaman”, Apex Art, New York
– “Unknown Pleasures”, Daniel Reich, New York, USA
– “Bathroom Group Show”, Daniel Reich, New York
– “Face Value, White Columns”, New York, USA
– “Miss World 1972”, Daniel Reich, New York, USA
– “Alpha Flight”, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
– “Deslocamentos do Eu: O Auto-Retrato Digital e Pré-Digital na Arte Brasileira, 1976-2001”, Itaú Cultural Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
– “São Paulo Turística”, Museum de Arte Moderna Higienópolis, São Paulo, Brazil
2000
– “To Be Continued”, Bellwether, Art In General and Parlour Projects, New York, USA

Awards
2007
– Recipient of The Public Art Fund’s In The Public Realm Grant
2002
– Recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging Artist