(this page was last updated in December 2018)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1973.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Represented by Gallery Vermelho.
PIPA 2012 nominee.
Education
2004
-MA in Visual Poetics, School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo
1995
-Degree in Art Education, Fundation Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
– “U-TURN Project Rooms”, ARTEBA 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– “Carla Zaccagnini: el presente, mañana”, Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City, México
– “Carla Zaccagnini: Elementos de belleza: un juego de té nunca es sólo un juego de té”, Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara, México
2017
– “Posta em Abismo”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
– “I am also stepping on wet sand”, SixthyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
– “Panananã”, Vila Itororó, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Situações: a instalação no acervo da Pinacoteca”, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– Museu de Arte de São Paulo, MASP, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
– “Elementos de Beleza: um jogo de chá nunca é apenas um jogo de chá”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, MASP, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Elements of Beauty: a tea set is never only a tea set”, Van Abbemuseum Museum, Eindoven, Netherlands
– “Carla Zaccagnini e Runo Lagomarsino”, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
– “Elements of Beauty”, Firstsite, Colchester, Inglaterra, UK
2014
– “Shangai em São Paulo in Shangai”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Plausible Impossible”, Artemis Nature Trail, Chipre
– “A Voice of One’s Own: On Women’s Fight for Suffrage and Human Recognition”, Malmö Kunstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
– “Impossible but Necessary, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2013
– “Pelas Bordas”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
2011
– “Plano de falla“, Ignácio Liprandi Arte Contemporâneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– “Imposible pero necesario“, Zona Maco Sur, Mexico City, Mexico
2010
– “Imposible pero necesario”, Gallery Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
– “Reação em cadeia com efeito variável”, permanent installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León, León, Spain
– “Bravo-Radio-Atlas-Virus-Opera”, Solo Projects ARCO, Madrid, Spain *
2008
– “no, it is opposition.“, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada *
– “Bifurcações e Encruzilhadas”, Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil *
– “Ogoláid O”, patio of the Museum of Modern Art of Aloisio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
2007
– “Museu das Vistas”, Ersta Konsthall at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
– “Wish”, Gallery Blow de la Barra, London, UK
2006
– “Abstração e referência”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil *
2005
– “Percurso ótico”, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
-” Museu das Vistas”, Museum Victor Meirelles, Florianópolis, Brazil
2004
– “Até onde a vista alcança”, Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo
2002
– “Belvedere”, Torreão, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– “Fortuna”, Museum of Art of Pampulha, Belo Horizonte
2001
– “Restauro”, Cultural Centre São Paulo Exhibition Programme, Brazil *
– “Desenhos”, Foundation Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
2000
– “Desenhos”, Adriana Penteado Arte Contemporânea São Paulo, Brazil *
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
– “Planos de Fuga, uma exposição em obras”, Cultural Centre Bank of Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
– “You are now entering”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry, UK
– “Trienal Poligráfica”, San Juan, Puerto Rico
– “Gravura em Campo Expandido”, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil
2011
– “Des(enho)”, Gallery Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia
– “Viajantes Contemporâneos”, Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, Brazil
– “Um outro lugar”, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “The Travelling Show”, Fundación Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
– “Avenue of the Américas”, LentSpace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA *
– “Panamericana”, Gallery Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
– “Modelos para Armar: Pensar Latinoamérica desde la colección MUSAC”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León, León, Spain
– “20 Years of Exhibition Programming”, Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil *
2009
– 31st Panorama of Brazilian Art, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil *
– 2nd Triennial Poligráfica de San Juan America Latina y El Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico
– MASH UP, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
– “Desenhos [Drawings] A – Z”, Museum of the City, Lisbon, Portugal *
2008
– 28th Biennial of São Paulo, Foundation Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil *
– “Cover = Reencenação + Repetição”, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil *
– “Hecho a Mano, el oficio en el arte,” Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia
– “Oidaradio”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– “10 Defining Experiments”, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA *
– The Unfair Fair, 1:1 projects, Loto Arte, Rome, Italy
2007
– ICI ET LÀ-BAS, Quartier de Villaroy, Guyancourt, Paris, France
– “Vida Pública”, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina *
– Encuentro Internacional Medellín 07, Medellín, Colombia
– “Should Clouds be Wasted, and Little Fish”, St. Truiden, Belgium
– “Situ/ação: vídeo de viagem”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil *
2006
– “10 Defining Experiments”, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA *
– “Cité-Action”, QUSS, Assenede, Belgium *
2005
– 61st Salong Paranaense, Museum of Contemporary Art of Curitiba, Brazil *
– “Hecho en Cuba”, San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba *
– “Istmo – arquivo flexível”, Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
2004
– “Formas de Pensar”, Malba, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– “Pr04”, MM Projects, Puerto Rico *
2003
– “Nova Geometria”, Gallery Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Imagetica”, Cultural Foundation of Curitiba, Brazil
– “Total motiviert”, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany *
– “The exhibition as a work of art”, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro *
2002
– “Contemporáneos brasileños”, Wilfredo Lam Centre of Contemporary Art, Havana, Cuba
– “Caminhos do contemporâneo”, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *
– “Arte: sistema e redes“, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
2001
– Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo *
– “Caracas 13 horas”, Sala Mendonza, Caracas, Venezuela
– “Orlândia e Nova Orlândia”, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2000
– Pernambuco Salon of Visual Arts, Recife, Brazil *
1999
– “In passing”, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, USA
* includes a publication
Residencies
– Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2011
– Centre National Édition Art Image, Chatou, France, 2009
– Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada, 2008
– Iaspis, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
– AIR, Antwerp, Belgium, 2006
– Batiscafo, Havana, Cuba, 2005
– HIAP, Helsinki, Finland, 2005
Collections
– Tate Modern, London, UK
– Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León, León, Spain
– Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil
– Luís Augusto Teixeira de Freitas, Lisbon, Portugal
Grants
– Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grants Programme, Miami, 2006
– Monthermoso 2011 Art and Research Grant.
Selected Bibliography
– “Restauro”. São Paulo: Cultural Centre São Paulo, 2001
– “Conversações” in Item n. 5. Rio de Janeiro: February 2002
– Catalogue Rio de Janeiro: Capacete Entretenimentos, 2003
– Translated Catalogue. São Paulo: Palavra impressa / Miami: Cisneros Fontanal Art Foundation, 2006
– Catalogue Traduit. Toronto: AGYU, 2008
– “Bifurcações e encruzilhadas: progressão geométrica: um episódio, três relatos, nove versões” in Gagarin #14. Antwerp, 2006
– Essay for Naturalización. Medellín: Museum of Antioquia, 2007
– “Ultraje”. São Paulo: Cultural Centre São Paulo, 2010
– “Vidrieras: a souffragettes’ song” in Cuaderno de apuntes sobre la emancipación 1: Encantadoras de serpientes. León: Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León, 2010
– Canton, Kátia. Novíssima Arte Brasileira: um guia de tendências. São Paulo: Iluminuras/São Paulo Research Foundation, 2000
– Reis, Paulo. “Um mapa possível” in Panorama da Arte Brasileira. São Paulo: Museum of Modern Art, 2001
– Basbaum, Ricardo. “Anos 2000-2002” in “Caminhos do Contemporâneo”. Rio de Janeiro: Paço Imperial, 2002
– Pedrosa, Adriano. CREAM 3. London: Phaidon, 2003
– Moura, Rodrigo. “Beyond sculpture: new perspectives on space in Brazil” in Flash Art 230, May-June, 2003
– Gonzalez, Julieta. “Museu das Vistas” in Puerto Rico 04. San Juan: M&M Proyectos, 2004
– Albuquerque, Fernanda. “A arte desafia o museu” in Revista Aplauso, n. 64. Porto Alegre, 2005
– Pinheiro, Aline. “O percurso de uma obra no espelho do passado” in Bien’art 10. São Paulo, 2005
– Albuquerque, Fernanda. “Carla Zaccagnini” in Contemporary Annual 2006, Londres: 2006
– Cypriano, Fabio. “Carla Zaccagnini” in Frieze n. 116, June-August, 2008
– Miller, Earl. “Double doubting: Carla Zaccagnini’s art of uncanny deception” in Border Crossings 109, 2009
– Karskens, Xander. “A chain reaction with variable effect: multitalent Carla Zaccagnini” in Metropolis M n. 3-2009, June-July, 2009
– Moura, Rodrigo. “The bloc of me alone” in Metropolis M n. 3-2009, June-July, 2009
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