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Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1965.
Lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Represented by Gallery Nara Roesler, and Gallery Xippas.
PIPA 2014 nominee.
Cao Guimarães works at the crossroads between cinema and the visual arts. With an intense production since the late 1980s, the artist has his works in numerous prestigious collections such as the Tate Modern (UK), MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Fondation Cartier (France), Colección Jumex (Mexico), Inhotim (Brazil), Museu Thyssen-Bornemisza (Spain), among others.
Website: www.caoguimaraes.com.
“Ver é uma fábula”, 2013, part 1/2. Duration: 9’07” “Ver é uma fábula”, 2013, part 2/2. Duration: 9’48” “Ex-Isto”, 2013. Duration: 86′ “A Alma do Osso” (trailer), 2013. Duration: 74′ “Otto” (trailer), 2013. Duration: 71′ Cao Guimarães works at the crossroads between cinema and the visual arts. With an intense production since the late 1980s, the artist has his works in numerous prestigious collections such as the Tate Modern (UK), MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Fondation Cartier (France), Colección Jumex (Mexico), Inhotim (Brazil), Museu Thyssen-Bornemisza (Spain), among others. He has participated in important exhibitions such as XXV and XXVII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil; Insite Biennial 2005, Mexico; Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, USA; Tropicália: The 60s in Brazil, Austria; Sharjah Biennial 11 Film Programme, United Arab Emirates and Seeing is a Fable, Brazil, a retrospective with a large part of the artist’s works exhibited at Itaú Cultural, in São Paulo. He has directed ten feature films: Espera (2018), O Homem das Multidões (2013), Otto (2012), Elvira Lorelay Alma de Dragón (2012), Ex Isto (2010), Andarilho (2007), Acidente (2006), Alma do Osso (2004), Rua de Mão-Dupla (2002), and o Fim do Sem Fim (2001), which have participated in renowned international festivals such as Cannes, Locarno, Sundance, Venice, Berlin, and Rotterdam. He won retrospectives of his films at MoMA in 2011, Itaú Cultural in 2013, BAFICI (Buenos Aires) and Cinemateca de México in 2014. In September 2017 he opened the largest exhibition and retrospective about his work in European territory, at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. He is represented by Galeria Nara Roesler in São Paulo and Galerie Xippas (Paris and Montevideo). Cao Guimarães figures among the Brazilian authors who deal systematically with movies in the art field. His order could be described as craftsmanly, insofar as it empties the notion of cinema as the summation of different technical jobs–-a summation in which construction layers are superimposed to create images in motion. While working with a restricted number of collaborators, and having his takes subjected to little (if any) interference, Guimarães has drawn close to the notion of documentary and created an economy of means that he has called “kitchen cinema”. He creates motion pictures that share in the articulation of artist’s film and documentary–-a tradition of both past and present-day vanguard, from Vertov to Jonas Mekas. However, in the early stages of his practice, when he was under a strong influence of realism, Cao Guimarães was a photographer–-someone who worked mostly by himself and, therefore, established very close and more or less warm ties with his objects. Interesting developments of his investigation are detected in manifold methods and approaches featured in the artist’s recent movies–-from the direct observation of reality (Da janela do meu quarto [From my bedroom window], 2004) to the encounter of different subjectivities by followinginstructions (Rua de mão dupla [Two-way street], 2002). Unless our intention is to redefine the meaning of this notion, we could hardly refer to these movies as documentaries. Yet, it is not idle to note the considerable attention they have attracted within the documentary film circuit. In the same key, ever since the late 1990s Guimarães has produced an extensive inventory of photos of gambiarras–-a field of interest that at first he shared with another artist, Rivane Neuenschwander. Ironically, dictionaries come in handy when it comes to defining these constructions of informal nature ( (For an analysis of its use among Brazilian artists, see LAGNADO, Lisette, “O malabarista e a gambiarra”. In “Trópico – Idéias de Norte e de Sul”. http://pphp.uol.com.br/tropico/html/textos/1693,1.shl. Accessed on August 6, 2006.) For instance, [Portuguese language dictionaries] Aurélio and Houaiss agree on the definition of gambiarra as an improvised power outlet/lighting source in which one or more light-bulb sockets hang precariously from an electric wire, without any fixtures–-a “paradigm gambiarra”, as we might call it. Yet, the definitions that both authors provide do not include the inventive, practical solutions we improvise in our everyday life, such as for example a paper clip used as makeshift bra strap adjuster, or a kitchen utensil used as wedge to hold a window open. The word gambiarra in this sense is precisely what interests the artist. In terms of etymology, however, the two denotations of this word have in the word “gâmbia” (leg) their shared, somewhat dubious and Seemingly, the use of the leg image as a leading sculptural element in these constructions is rather propitious, as in most renditions the gambiarra is introduced as a support for some activity. It serves as counterweight for signs, prop for a tire-less automobile, makeshift for eyeglass bow, and even a barbecue-and-chair combination. Cao Once rescued from the effacement to which they are doomed, Cao Guimarães’s gambiarras come forth not only as the solution offered in view of scanty resources, but also as denial of pre-fabricated, massified, and conforming industrial solutions. Usage and creation become one, they go against the grain, in an “opposition”, as Lagnado has defined them, d’aprés Hélio Oiticica. In his photographs, Guimarães deals with the desire to transform everyday life, not as something utopian, but as a means to create a proof that attests to this transformation taking place, on a daily basis, all over the world. * Text published on the catalogue of the exhibition “Gambiarras” by Cao Guimarães at Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, 2006. Solo Exhibitions Group Exhibitions Collections Awards Retrospectives
Photographing on the leg*
By Rodrigo Moura
obscure origin.
Guimarães’s gaze spots this type of contrivance everywhere, and yet the real challenge is
to define gambiarras, rather than collect them. Thus, a drawer suspended in the air by nylon strings, and a pillow shaped after a coconut could be the two extremities of this investigation on the sculptural nature of the gambiarra, as well as on its boundaries with absurdity and the void. On the other hand, an examination of the photographic nature of these images reveals affinities between their unassuming aspect, and that casual and furtive aspect of the constructions. Here we have images produced in passing: notes that will not be replaced, snapshots that at times are taken by third parties, and a collection that is more affective than obsessive. We are before a collecting stance that brings to mind Guimarães’s statement that he started working as an artist the very moment he became an active cinephile. These images bring us face to face with an old photography dictum: to produce images is to collect images.
2015
-“Depois”, Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014
-“Ciclo de filmes”, Cinemateca, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013
-“Ver é uma fábula”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012
-“Passatempo”, Gallery Nara Roesler, Brazil.
-“Infância”, Cultural Centre Fortaleza, Brazil.
-‘Eloge du Vertige”, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France.
-“Infância”, Gallery Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Recife, Brazil.
-“Welcome to my loft”, Centre Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, Spain.
-“This is Brazil! 1990-2012”, A Coruña, Spain.
-“Território de Contato”, Sesc, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011
-“Inmersión Sensoria: La obra de Cao Guimarães”, CME / Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay.
-“Cao Guimarães”, Gallery Xippas, Paris, France.
-“Cão Guimarães: Paisagens Reais / Campo Cego”, Gallery La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain.
2010
-“Zum Zum Zum”, Gallery A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Retrospective Cão Guimarães: PERIFERIAS”, 11o Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canária, Las Palmas de Gran Canária, Spain.
-“Cao Guimarães, Vídeo Art Replay: Part 2”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
-“A alma do osso”, Sala P.F. Gastal (Usina do Gasômetro), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-“A alma do osso”, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“A alma do osso”, Cine UOL, São Paulo, Brazil.
2009
-“Memória e Outros Esquecimentos”, Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008
-Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus.
-Museum of Art of Pampulha, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
-La Casa Encendida, Arco, Madrid, Spain.
2007
-Centre of Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
2006
-“Gambiarras”, Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, with critical text by Rodrigo Moura.
-Gasworks, London, England.
2005
-La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain.
2004
-Appendix, Copenhagen, Dinamarca.
-Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil.
2002
-Gallery Celma Albuquerque, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1995
-“Fotofagia”, Federal Fluminense Univeristy, Niterói and Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1992
-“Depois do Dilúvio”, Gallery Itaú, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2015
-“Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art From the Collection”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
-“Quando piso em folhas secas”, Sala de Arte Santander, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Encruzilhada”, School of the Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“sE LiGA!”, Cultural Centre Banco of Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Imagine Brazil”, Institute Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Quarta Feira de Cinzas”, School of the Visual Arts of Parque Laje, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Atributos do Silêncio”, Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Whatsappropriation: A Arte de Revisar a Arte”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2014
-“Remapping the New World”, exhibition of “Ex Isto” at the Guggenheim, New York, USA.
-“Cidade Poética”, Sala de Arte Santander, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“À sua saúde”, National Museum Honestino Guimarães, Brasília, Brazil.
-“Berlinale 2014”, 64th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.
-“Latina”, collective at Gallery Xippas, Geneva, Switzerland.
-“BRICS”, Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Architecture à lécran: une fleur sur l’asphalte”, Cinemathèque Suisse, Lausanne, Switzerland.
-“Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil”, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA.
-“Prática portátil”, Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“30 Years + Southern Panoramas”, 18th Festival de Arte Contemporânea, Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Made by Brazilians”, old Matarazzo Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Ciclo de filmes”, Cinemateca, Mexico City, Mexico.
-“Limbo”, Gallery Xippas, Montevideo, Uruguay.
-“Transperformance # 6”, collective at Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Travessias 3”, collective at Galpão Bela Maré, São Paulo, Brasil.
-Biennial of Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
-“O Homem das Multidões”, 17th Showing of Cinema of Tiradentes, Brazil; Espaço Itaú de Cinema, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Espaço Itaú de Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Debate Folha at Espaço Itaú de Cinema, São Paulo, Brazil; Cine Belas Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Cinema da Fundação, Recife, Brazil.
2013
-“Expoprojeção 1973-2013”, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“30 anos – Videobrasil”, Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil.
-XX Biennial of Curitiba, Brazil.
-“Blind field”, Krannert Museum, Champaign, USA; Eli and Edyth Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
-“Videoarte 2013”, Oi Futuro Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-“Coleção Itaú de Fotografia Brasileira”, Grande Gallery Alberto da Veiga Guignard, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Films and videos by the artists in the Itaú Cultural Collection, National Museum Honestino Guimarães, Brasília, Brazil.
-“Fronteritat”, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
-Award Marcantonio Vilaça / Funarte 2013, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Turn off the Sun: Selections from La Colección Jumex”, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA.
-“Algunas lagunas”, Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico.
-“Iconoclássicos”, Sesc Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil; Cinemateca de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil; Museum of Image and Sound, Campinas, Brazil; Sesc Chapecó, Brazil; Estação das Artes, João Pessoa, Brazil; Biblioteca Pública Estadual Elcy Lacerda, Macapá, Brazil; Institute of Art of Pará, Belém, Brazil; Fundação Cultural de Castanhal, Brazil; Cine Teatro Marrocos, Marabá, Brazil; Municipal Secretary of Tourism and Culture, Óbidos, Brazil; Cultural Centre Bertino Bulhosa, Pontas de Pedras, Brazil; Mascote, Santarém, Brazil; Cine Cultura, Goiânia, Brazil; Foundation Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil; Sesc Rio Branco, Brazil.
2012
-“Lo bueno y lo malo”, Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Westobou Festival, Augusta, USA.
-“From the Margin to the Edge”, Somerset House, England.
-“Infância”, Cultural Centre Fortaleza, Brazil.
-Eloge du Vertige, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France.
-“Infância”, Gallery Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Recife, Brazil.
-“Welcome to my loft”, Centre Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, Spain.
-“This is Brazil! 1990-2012”, A Coruña, Spain.
-“Território de Contato”, Sesc São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Poule!”, Colección Jumex, Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico.
-“The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art”, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway.
2011
-“And then it became a city: six cities under 60”, Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China.
-Art Video, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA.
-24th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Holland.
-“VideoCriação”, Municipal Art Centre Hélio Oticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Festival “Curta Cinemateca”, Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil.
-32nd Panorama da arte Brazileira, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Estación Experimental”, Centre of Arte y Creación Industrial, Laboral University, Gijón, Spain.
-“The Spiral and The Square: Exercises in Translatability,” Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
-8th Biennial of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-“Premiere Brazil! 2011”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
-14th Festival of Cinema of Tiradentes, Brazil.
-7th International Festival of Berlin Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany.
-Netmage 2011 International Live-Media Festival, with O Grivo, Bologna, Italy.
2010
-International Festival of São Paulo, Brazil.
-Cinema Festival of Rio 2010, Brazil.
-“Da janela do meu quarto, Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil”, New York, USA.
-“O fim do sem fim”, “Trust,” Seoul International Media Art Biennial Media Biennial Seoul, Korea.
-38th Cinema Festival of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
-“A Alma do osso”, 13th Festival of Cinema of Tiradentes, Brazil.
-“Urbi and Orbi”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Tropicália: The 60s in Brazil”, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria.
-“Dominó Caníbal”: Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo Murcia 2010, Salas Verónicas, Murcia, Spain.
-“SERPENTINE CINÉMA: CINACT”, The Gate, Serpentine Gallery, London, England.
-12th International Festival of Short Films of Belo Horizonte, Cine Humberto Mauro, Palácio das Artes, Brazil.
-Mostra Primeiro Cinéma, Filmes de Artistas, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“REPEAT ALL”, Cultural Centre Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela.
-ZONAmaco Sur 2010, Mexico City, Mexico.
-Madrid Foto, Madrid, Spain.
-“Sculpting Vídeo art: replay, part 2”, Miami Art Basel, Miami, USA.
-Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
-Week of Videoart 2010 at the Foundation Joaquim Nabuco, Gallery Vicente do Rego, Recife, Brazil.
-Fluxus – Festival Internacional de Cinéma na Internet, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“O Desejo da Forma”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.
-“The Traveling Show”, Gallery Fundación Jumex, Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico.
-“Sobre Ilhas e Pontes”, Gallery Cândido Portinari, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009
-Contemporary Archive, Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói, Brazil.
-II Triennial Poligráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico.
-“Mythos Kindheit”, Haus Fuer Kunst Urina, Switzerland.
-“6th Biennial of Montreal, Canada.
-“Brazil Contemporary”, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland.
-“Myth of Childhood”, CCA Andraxt, Andratx, Spain.
-“Estuaire 2009”, Nantes Saint-Nazaire, France.
-“Antes de Ayer y Pasado Mañana, o lo que puede ser pintura hoy”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Union Fenosa, Macuf, Spain.
-“O Outro Eu”, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2008
-“Visionaries – Audiovisual Works in Latin America”, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-“Worlds on Video”, Vídeo Arte Internazionale, Florence, Italy.
-13th Festival Internacional de Cinema de Las Palmas, Las Palmas de Gran Canária, Spain.
-“Mostra Documenta Brazil: Ritmos de Brazilidade”, New York, USA.
-Parallel Show of the 28th Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Pásions Privadas, Visions Públicas”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo, Spain.
-“Collection as Aleph”, Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria.
2007
-Worlver Hampton Museum, Wolver Hampton, England.
-“Contour”, 3rd Biennial for Video Art, Belgium.
-Cultural Centre Spain, Córdoba, Argentina.
-“Close to Me”, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy.
-Museum of Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
-“Pensée Sauvage, On Human Freedom”, Ursula Blickle Foundation and Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
-“The Shapes of Space”, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.
2006
-“Narrativas”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“No olho do outro / Con los ojos del otro”, Cultural Centre of Spain, Montevideo, Uruguay.
-“Primeira Pessoa”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.
-Liege Art Biennial, France.
-27th International Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Museum Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
-Salão de Arte de Curitiba, Museum of Contemporary Art of Curitiba, Brazil.
-“Situ / ação – aspectos do documentário contemporâneo”, Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
2005
-“Cine y Casi Cine”, Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
-“Discover Brazil: Painting, Sculpture, Installation”, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany.
-“Farsites inSite_05”, San Diego, USA and Tijuana, Mexico.
-Espace Topographie de lrsquo Art, Paris, France.
-“Corpo na Arte Brazileira”, Institute Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Encontro com Arte: Razão e Sensibilidade”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Old News”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, USA.
-Passage de Retz, Paris, France.
2004
-“O Corpo – Entre o público e o privado”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Estratégias Barrocas: Arte Contemporáneo Brasileño, Metropolitan Cultural Centre of Quito, Ecuador.
-“Up Coming”, Arco, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.
-“Memory and Landscape”, La casa encendida, Madrid, Spain.
2003
-“Imagética”, Cultural Foundation of Curitiba, Brazil.
-Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
-São Paulo Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Video Lounge, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA.
2002
-Biennial Extra, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Centenário de Drummond”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-“Matéria, Prima”, Novo Museum, Curitiba, Brazil.
-“Projeto Insitu”, Instituto CINE, São Paulo, Brazil.
-XXV São Paulo International Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Territórios”, Institute Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Video Zone – The 1st International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2001
-“Transexual Express”, Centre drsquo; Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
2000
-“A Forma e os Sentidos, – Tridimensão Mineira”, Museum Ferroviário Vale do Rio Doce, Vitória, Brazil.
-Guggenhein Museum Collection, New York, USA.
-Slamdance 2000, Park City, USA.
1999
-IV Month International of Photography, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Cotidiano/Arte: O Objeto Anos 90”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
1998
-Westminster University, London, England.
1997
-Arte Cidade III, São Paulo, Brazil.
1996
-“Contemporary Brazilian Photography, Ex Votos”, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England.
-Antártica Artes com a Folha, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.
1994
-“BH – 100 anos: 10 olhares sobre a cidade”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-“Chão e Parede”, Galpão Embra, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1993
-“Homem-Sanduíche”, downtown São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Fotografia Construída”, Museum Lasar Segall, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“O fotógrafo construtor”, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil.
1992
-“Além da Fotografia”, Parque Laje, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Utopias Contemporâneas”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-Museum de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
-Museum de Arte Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.
-Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
-Institute Cultural Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil.
-Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.
-Tate Modern, London, England.
-Foundation Cartier for Contemporary Art, Paris, France.
-Walker Center, Minneapolis, USA.
-Museum of Modern Art Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil.
-Museum of Art of Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany.
-Diana and Moises Beresdivin Collection, Puerto Rico.
-San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA.
2013
-Best Director for “O homem das multidões” (2013), Festival of Rio, Brazil.
2012
-Best Film (feature-length documentary), Best Photography, Best Soundtrack (O Grivo), Best Sound (O Grivo) for “Otto” (2012), 45th Festival of Brasília for Brazilian Cinema, Brazil.
2008
-Best Film for “Andarilho”, 9th Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canária, Lady Harimaguada de Oro Award, Spain.
2007
-Best Film for “Andarilho”, Forumdoc.bh.2007 – 11th Festival of Documentary and Ethnographic Films, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-Best Director for “Andarilho”, International Cinema Festival of Rio, Brazil.
-Best Ibero-American Documentary for “Acidente”, 22nd Festival Internacional de Cinema de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2006
-Best Documentary for “Acidente”, Cinema Festival of Rio, ABDeC Award, Brazil.
2005
-Best Film for “Da janela do meu quarto”, X Festival Internacional de Documentários É Tudo Verdade, Brazil.
-Best Short Film for “Da Janela do Meu Quarto”, III Cine Esquema Novo, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
2004
-Best Documentary of the International Competition (Official Jury), Best Documentary of the National Competition (Official Jury) for “Da janela do meu quarto”, IX Festival Internacional de Documentários É Tudo Verdade, Brazil.
-Best Short Film for “Da Janela do Meu Quarto”, Festival de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2001
-Acquisition Award for Histórias do Não Ver, XXVII Panorama da Arte.
-Brasileira, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil
-E-cinema Award (experimental films) for Sopro, II Festival Brazil Digital, Brazil.
-Prize George de Beauregard / Canal + for “O Fim do Sem Fim”, Festival Fictions du Réel, International Competition of the International Documentary, Marseille, France.
-Prize Cinema Indireto (Indirect Cinema Award) for “O fim do sem fim”, Forumdoc.bh.2001 – V Festival of Documentary and Ethnographic Film, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-Best Editing for “O Fim do Sem Fim”, XI Cine Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
-Prize GNT de Renovação de Linguagem for “O Fim do Sem Fim”, VI Festival Internacional de Documentários É tudo verdade, Brazil.
2014
-The 60th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York, USA.
-Bafici Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Cinemateca do Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013
-Fidocs, Santiago, Chile.
-Sesc Palladium, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011
-Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
2010
-Festival Internacional de Cine – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain.
2009
-“Mostra de Curtas Cao Guimarães”, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008
-Cinema de Cozinha, “Mostra Retrospectiva Cao Guimarães”, Sesc São Paulo, Brazil.
2007
-“Realidade e Arte no Documentário Brasileiro”, Piracicaba, Brazil.
-Mostra Retrospectiva, Sala Lugones, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2006
-Retrospectiva de Filmes, Cine Humberto Mauro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2005
-Retrospectiva de Filmes, II Festival de Cinema Brasileiro of Singapore.
-Retrospectiva de Filmes, Espaço Brésil au Carreau du Temple, Paris, France.
-Retrospectiva de Filmes, Festival of Tiradentes, Brazil.
-Retrospectiva de Filmes, Panorama Coisa de Cinema, Salvador, Brazil.