Exhibitions

2011

Interventions in the Landscape, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York

“A Terrible Beauty is Born,” 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France

“Art and Confrontation in Latin America: 1910-2010,” Palacio de Bellas Artes and Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico

2010

“Amazonia, A Arte,” Museu Vale, Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil

“Os 70’s,” Progetti, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

“First and Last, Notes on the Monument,” Galería Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil

“On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

“Contemporary Art from the Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

“Snapshots of Tourism,” Gallery Augusta, HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland

“Like Tears in Rain,” Palacio das Artes – Fabrica de Talentos, Porto, Portugal

“185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York, New York

“The Collection,” Siobhan Davies Dance Studio & Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom

“NÓS,” Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“Unbuilt Roads,” Based on the book Unbuilt Roads: 107 Unrealised Projects, Hatje Cantz (1997) edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa, e-flux project space, New York, New York

"A Mancha Humana / The Human Stain,” Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

“Making Worlds,” 53rd Italian Pavilion, International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2009

“Los Impoliticos,” Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy

“Brazilian Summer.Art & the City,” Museum Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands

“À Contre-Corps / Countering the Body,” Frac Lorraine, Metz, France

“Grito e Escuta,” 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil

“On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain

Arte‚ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York

Trazos Humanos [Human Traces], University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom

No Es Neutrala – Daros Latinamerica Collection, Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

2008

Cildo Meireles, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (solo)

When Lives Become Form – Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960 – Present, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2007

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Face to Face, The Daros Collections, Zurich, Switzerland

Arte para Crianças [Art for Children], Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Transactions, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Time Present Time Past: Highlights from 20 Years of the International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey. Exhibition concurrent with the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey

6th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil

“New Economy,” Artists Space, New York, New York

The Disappeared, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York

2006

Cildo Meireles: Babel,Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil

Seducoes: Valeska Soares, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto,h Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich, Switzerland

Contrabando,Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Paralela 2004, São Paulo Biennial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970,Tate Modern, London, England

2005

Populism,Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Algum Desenho [1963-2005],Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil

20 Desarranxos: Panorama da arte brasileira,Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain

Espaço Brasil, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France

2004

Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Forms 1940s-70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Occasion, Portikus im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt, Germany

Descala and Strictu, Galerie Lelong, New York

Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England

Poetic Justice: 8th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul

Strictu, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida

The Paper Sculpture Show,Sculpture Center, New York

2003

Musee dfArt Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France

Layers of Brazilian Art, Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, Iowa

Uneasy Space, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002

XI Documenta, Kassel, Germany

Desenhistas coloristas, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo

Aquisicões essenciais, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro

2001

Blanton Museum, Austin, Texas

'Minimalism Past And Presence' Galerie Lelong, New York, June 26, - August 17, 2001

'Versiones del Sur: Eztetyka del sueno' Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2000

Galeria Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP

'Cildo Meirelesh' Kunstverein, Koln Germany

'Cildo Meireles' O Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, December 2000.

'Cildo Meireles' (Retrospective organized by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NewYork.) Museu Moderna Arte de São Paulo, July 13 – August 20. Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5 – December 2.

'Making Choices' Museum of Modern Art, New York

'Vivências (Life Experiences)' Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria, September 15 – December 22, 2000

2000

South Korea Biennial, Korea

Worthless, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia

1999

Retrospective, New Museum New York, NY

'Ku Kka Ka Kka' Galerie Lelong, New York

'Cildo Meireles' New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

The Queens Musuem of Art New York, NY

Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980sh organized by Jane Farver, Queens Museum of Art, NY; traveling to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, Miami Art Museum, FL.

Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro

Camelô, Galeria Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP

1998

XXIV Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The Garden of the Forking Paths, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen

1997

You Are Here, Royal College of Art London

'Cildo Meireles' (retrospective organized by the IVAM, Spain) Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston

1996

Retrospectiva, Museu de Arte Do Porto Portugal

1992

Metros I, Galeira Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP

America, Bride of the Sun, Musee Reel de Beaux Arts D'Antuerpe, Belgie

Projects, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

1990

'Projects' The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

The Retorical Image, The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY

XX Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil

1989

'Through and Lezartes' The Kannal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium

'Les Magiciens de la Terre' Centre Georges Pompidou, La Villette, Paris, France

1987

Non Magic World, Museum of Contemporary Art São Paulo, SP

1986

Cinza (Gray), Galeria Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP

1981

The Sermon of the Mountain: Fiat Lux, Museum of Moderna Art Medellin, Colombia

Galeria Luisa Strina São Paulo, SP

1976

International Actulity, Biennale of Venice

1975

Eureka/Blindhotland, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, RJ

1970

Information, MOMA New York, NY

1967

Museu De Art Moderna Bahia, Salvador