assume vivid astro focus
(Born anytime between the 20th and 21st century in various parts of the world, nomads)
Upcoming solo exhibitions:
Solo exhibition, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, 2009
Solo exhibition, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France, 2009
Solo exhibition, Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, 2009
Upcoming group exhibitions:
"New York Minute", MACRO Museum, curated by Kathy Grayson, Rome, Italy, 2009
"Dissonanze," Rome, Italy, forthcoming, 2009
"In Living Contact," 28th São Paulo Biennial, curated by Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008
"Cover," Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), curated by Fernando Oliva, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008
"I/Legitimo," curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008
"Graffiti," curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008
Selected solo exhibitions:
"assume vivid astro focus," Peres Projects, Berlin, 2008
"antonella varicella arabella fiorella," public project for ENEL Contemporanea 2008, curated by Francesco Bonami, Rome, Italy
"ameiz vous avec ferveur," special window project for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA, 2008
"absolutely venomous accurately fallacious (naturally delicious)," Deitch Projects, New York, USA, 2008
"Concrete Waves: Homage to Skate Culture" (with Ryan McGinness), P.S. 1 and Art Basel Miami Beach, Collins Park, Miami, USA, 2007
"faux dark shada rustic moniques," Hiromi Yoshii Gallery. Tokyo, Japan, 2007
"a very anxious feeling," John Connelly Presents, New York, USA, 2007
"abra vana alucinete fogo," Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2006
"Open Call," Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna, Austria, 2006
"absorb viral attack fantasy," Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan, 2006
"butch queen realness with a twist of pastel color," John Connelly Presents, New York, USA, 2006
"Off the Wall Series," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis,
assume vivid astro focus XIV" (in collaboration with Elmgreen and Dragset), Indianapolis, USA, 2005
"homo crap #2," Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy, 2005
"assume vivid astro focus XII: butch queen realness with a twist in pastel colors (featuring Dick Jewell)," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 2005
"assume vivid astro focus XI," Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Private Collection, Key Biscayne, FL, 2004
"Make Out With You: A Slow Dance Club," Collaboration with Los Super Elegantes, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK, 2004
"assume vivid astro focus IX," public art project for Central Park sponsored by The Public Art Fund, New York, USA, in conjunction with the Whitney Biennial, 2004
"assume vivid astro focus VII," Deitch Projects, New York, USA, 2003
"assume vivid astro focus V," Peres Projects, San Francisco, USA, 2002
Selected group exhibitions:
"The Rocky Mountain People Show," curated by Fabio Cavallucci and Cristina Natalicchio, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemmporanea, Trento, Italy, 2008
"When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the Future – Brazil, Japan," curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo, Brazil and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, Japan, 2008
"New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions," curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA, 2007
"Space For Your Future," curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, Japan, 2007
"Gravity's Rainbow," Peres Projects, Athens, Greece, 2007
"Playback," curated by Anne Dressen, Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville Paris, Paris, France, 2007
"Sympathy For The Devil," curated by Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, 2007
"Destroy Athens," Athens Biennial, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio and Augustine Zenakos, Athens, Greece, 2007
"BoysCraft," curated by Tami Katz-Freiman, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
"Studio Voltaire Portfolio," Studio Voltaire, London, UK, 2007
"Night Visions: MOCA after Dark," Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 2007
"Faces, bodies and contemporary signs of Ernesto Esposito's collection," Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (MADRe), Naples, Italy, 2006
"Contemporary Video Art from Brazil," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2006
"Tropicalia," curated by Carlos Basualdo, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA; Barbican, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Haus der Culturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2006
"Ninth Tropical Night – Pablo Internacional," curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2006
"Panic Room," works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, 2006
"Infinite Painting," curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah C. Canarutto, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy, 2006
"Ecstasy: In and About Altered States," curated by Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA, 2005
"Manchmal weiss ich nicht, ob ich etwas wirklich erlebt oder ob ich es in einem Film gesehen habe," Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany, 2005
"Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol," Andy Warhol Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA, 2005
"Nocturnal Emissions," Groninger Museum, Groninger, The Netherlands, 2004
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, 2004
Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil, 2003
"GNS: Global Navigation System," curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, as part of Aleksandra Mir's Naming Tokyo Project, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2003
"Vidéo Topiques," curated by Lydia Yee , Musée d'Art Moderne et
Contemporain, Strasbourg, France, 2002
"Videodrome II," curated by Anne Ellegood, Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow and Johanna Burton, Zenith Media Lounge, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA, 2002
"São Paulo Turística"(Touristic São Paulo), curated by Ricardo Resende, Museum de Arte Moderna Higienópolis, São Paulo, Brazil, 2001
"To Be Continued," curated by Rebecca Smith and Matt Keegan, Bellwether, Art In General and Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2000
"City Cannibal," curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, 1998
"Antárctica Artes com a Folha," Pavilhão Manoel da Nóbraga, São Paulo, Brazil, 1996
AVAF is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection.
AVAF has been featured in ArtForum, Modern Painters, Art In America, Art:Review, Tema Celeste, Arte, Art Nexus, The New York Times, Frieze, Flash Art, L'Uomo Vogue, V Magazine, Tokion, Vogue Homme, W Magazine, and a catalogue was published by the Whitney Museum of American Art for the 2004 Whitney Biennial.