Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1960
Lives and Works in, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
Education
 
1978/1981 Curso de Comunicação Social SACHA
1981-1982 Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
 
Set design
 
1986-2001
Set design for Companhia Marcia Milhazes Dança Contemporânea
 
 
Special Projects
 
2004
Gávea, Projeto Brasil 40º, Desenho para a fachada da loja de departamentos Selfridges & Co, Manchester, England
 
 
Solo Exhibitions
 
2005
Stephen Friedman Gallery, Londres/London
 
2004
Meu Prazer, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Summertime, James Cohan Gallery, New York
 
2003
Beatriz Milhazes, Domaine de Kerguéhennec-Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan, France
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
 
2002
Mares do Sul, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Artist’s Book Project, Museum of Modern Art, New York
 
2001
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
 
2000
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil/Sao Paulo, Brazil
Edward Thorp Gallery, Nova Iorque/New York
 
1999
Screenprints, Durham Press, Durham, EUA/USA
Stephen Friedman Gallery, Londres/London
 
1998
Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris, France
 
1997
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
 
1996
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
 
1995
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Galeria Ramis F. Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
 
1994
Projeto Finep, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
 
1993
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Sala Alternativa, Caracas
 
1991
Subdistrito Comercial de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
 
1990
Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
 
Group Exhibitions
 
2005
Flower Myth - Van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
POPulence, Blaffer Gallery – The Art Museum of The University of Houston, Texas, USA; MOCA-Cleveland Contemporary, Cleveland, OH; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
 
2004
Moma at el Museo - Latin American and Caribbean art from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, El Museo del Barrio, New York
XXVI Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Ice Hot Recenting Painting from the Scharpff Collection, Hamburger
Kunstalle, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Hamburg, Germany
Estratégias Barrocas – Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Centro Cultural Metropolitano de Quito, Equador
Natureza-Morta/Still Life, Galeria de Arte do Centro Cultural SESI, São Paulo, Brazil
Flower as Image-From Monett to Jeff Koons, Louisiana Museum, Denmark
 
2003
Pavilhão Brasileiro/Brazilian Pavilion, Biennale Internazionale d’ Arte, Veneza, Italy
Heisskalt Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff, Hamburger
Kunstalle, Hamburgo; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
2080, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
2002
Urgent Painting, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Caminhos do Contemporâneo, Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Beatriz Milhazes, Polly Appfelbaum, D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA Urgent Painting, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, França/France
Metrópolis, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brasil/Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
2001
Hybrids, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Viva a Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Operativo; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico D.F
Espelho Cego, Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
 
2000
Projects 70, Museum of Modern Art, Nova Iorque/New York
Opulent, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, EUA/USA
Universal Abstraction 2000, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, EUA/USA
Fricciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Furnished Paintings, Galeria OMR, Mexico D.F.
 
1999
Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Keemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, EUA/USA
Painting, Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris
Tansvanguarda Latino Americana, Culturgest, Lisboa/Lisbon
 
1998
XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil/Sao Paulo, Brazil
Biennale of Sydney, USA
Painting Language, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
Decorative Strategies, Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Um Olhar Brasileiro, Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
 
1997
Desde el Cuerpo: Alegorias de lo Feminino, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
 
1996
Excesso, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Yole, Milhazes, Duarte, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
Brasil Contemporâneo, Casa da América Latina, Madrid
Theories of the Decorative, Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington D.C., USA
Inverleith House, Edimburgo, Escócia, GB
 
1995
Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, EUA/USA
Anos 80: o palco da diversidade, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Galeria de Arte do Sesi, São Paulo, Brazil
Transatlântica - The America-Europa Non Representativa, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
Panorama da Atual Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
1994
The Exchange Show: twelve painters from San Francisco and Rio de Janeiro, Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, USA
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Slant of Light, International Art Expositions - Art New York International, New York
Encuentro Interamericano de Artes Plasticas - Dialogo sobre Siete Puntos, Museo de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
 
1993
A Caminho do Museu, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Encontros e Tendências, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Ultramodern, The Art of Contemporary Brasil; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
 
1992
A Caminho do Museu, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
América, Sala Alternativa, Caracas
Eco-Arte, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
1991
Brasil La Nueva Generación, Fundación Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
BR/80 – A Pintura dos Anos 80, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
1990
Prêmio Brasília de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil
Projeto Árqueos, Fundição Progresso, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
1989
Rio Hoje, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Canale, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil; Museu Municipal de Arte, Curitiba, Brasil II Bienal Internacional de Cuenca
 
1988
Subindo a Serra, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
1987
Salão Paulista de Arte Contemporânea, Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil


Public Collections
 
Salomon R. Guggenhein Museum, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Banco Itaú, S.A., São Paulo, Brazil
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanzawa, Japan
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer, Fund for Contemporary Art in honor of Madeleine Grynsztejn, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
La Sacen Neuilly-Sur Seibe, France
Worcester Art Museum, USA
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanzawa, Japan