PERES PROJECTS Berlin
assume vivid astro focus
Born anytime between the C20th and C21st in various parts of the world, nomads
Current Collaborations:
Visual collaboration with Comme des Garçons
comme-des-garcons.com
GAGA'S WORKSHOP, a collaborative display with Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti, Barneys New York, Madison Avenue, New York City, US
November 2011
barneys.com
Current Solo Exhibition:
Cyclops Trannies, Susanne Geiss Company, New York, US
November 8, 2011 - January 28, 2012
suzannegeiss.com
Current Group Exhibition:
In Living Color, at The Flag Art Foundation, New York City, US
January 21, 2012 - May 19, 2012
flagartfoundation.com
Absolute Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, NO, January 2012
www.nasjonalmuseet.no
The Space Between Now and Then, OMR, Mexico City, MX
November 23, 2011 - February 28, 2012
galeriaomr.com
Upcoming Solo Exhibitions:
2012
assume vivid astro focus, KadE, Amersfoort, NL
kunsthalkade.nl
assume vivid astro focus, Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Sicily, IT
fpca.it
Upcoming Group Exhibition:
Collaborations & Interventions, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, ES
April - September 2012
ccandratx.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011
assume vivid astro focus, Galeria Triângulo, São Paulo, BR
Amanda Lepore as Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Amanda Lepore as Andy's Liz , Core, New York City, US
2010
aquí vivimos atisbando fantasmas, Centro De Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, ES
2009
assume vivid astro focus, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, FR
Abra Vana Allucinete Fogo, Gallery Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, BR
affektert veggmaleri akselererende faenskap, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, NO
2008
In Living Contact, curated by Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen, 28th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, BR
Cover, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), curated by Fernando Oliva, São Paulo, BR
I/Legitimo, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
Graffiti, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
aqui volvemos adornos frivolos, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
antonella varicella arabella fiorella, curated by Francesco Bonami, public project for ENEL Contemporanea 2008, Rome, IT
aimez vous avec ferveur, special window project for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, US
absolutely venomous accurately fallacious (naturally delicious), Deitch Projects, New York City, US
2007
Concrete Waves: Homage to Skate Culture, (with Ryan McGinness), P.S. 1 and Art Basel Miami Beach, Collins Park, Miami, US
aux dark shada rustic moniques, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, JP
a very anxious feeling, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
2006
abra vana alucinete fogo, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, BR
Open Call, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna, AU
absorb viral attack fantasy, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, JP
butch queen realness with a twist of pastel color, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
2005
Off the Wall Series, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, US
assume vivid astro focus XIV" (in collaboration with Elmgreen and Dragset), Indianapolis, US
homo crap #2, Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, IT
assume vivid astro focus XII: butch queen realness with a twist in pastel colors (featuring Dick Jewell), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2004
assume vivid astro focus XI, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Private Collection, Key Biscayne, Florida, US
Make Out With You: A Slow Dance Club, Collaboration with Los Super Elegantes, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
assume vivid astro focus IX, public art project for Central Park sponsored by The Public Art Fund, in conjunction with the Whitney Biennial, New York City, US
2003
assume vivid astro focus VII, Deitch Projects, New York City, US
2002
assume vivid astro focus V, Peres Projects, San Francisco, US
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011
Nothingness and being skinny, curated Gerardo Contreras, Black Cubicle Toilet Gallery, Celeste House, Mexico City, MX
Amanda Lepore as Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Amanda Lepore
as Andy's Liz, Fred Torres presents David LaChapelle in collaboration
with assume vivid astro focus, CORE: club Core, New York City, US
2010
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons, The New Museum, New York City, US
Demons, Yarns & Tales, James Cohen Gallery, New York City, US
2009
Dissonanze, Rome, IT
When Live Becomes Form, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
New York Minute, curated by Kathy Grayson, Macro Future Museum, Rome, IT
Deslocamentos, curated by Eduardo Raccah, Brazilian Embassy,
Berlin, DE
Zweckgemenschaft, curated by Francesco Stocchi, MICA MOCA,
Berlin, DE
Scorpio's Garden, curated by Kirstine Roepstorff, Temporaere Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, DE
Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, US
One night performance with Black Meteoric Star, Donau Music Festival, Vienna, AT
Chelsea Visits Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, CU
2008
In Living Contact, curated by Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen, 28th São Paulo Biennial, , São Paulo, BR
The Voting Booth Project, curated by Quang Bao, benefit exhibition for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, David Zwirner Gallery, New York City, US
Cover, curated by Fernando Oliva, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo, BR
I/Legitimo, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
The Rocky Mountain People Show, curated by Fabio Cavallucci and Cristina Natalicchio, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemmporanea, Trento, IT
When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the Future – Brazil, Japan, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo, BR and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, JP
Super#3, an one night performance with Black Meteoric Star (Gavin Russom), Maison des Arts de Créteil, Paris, FR
Glasgow International, curated by Caroline Stevenson, Glasgow, UK
Tiny Art Show, curated by Maxwell Williams, Cynders Gallery, Brooklyn, US
Gravity: Selected works from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Museo Artium, Vitoria, ES
2007
shada shada La Chatte, one night performance in collaboration with La Chatte, part of La Noche en Blanco, organized by Museo Reina Sofia and ARCO, Matadero, Madrid, ES
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 City, US
Space For Your Future, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, JP
Gravity's Rainbow, Peres Projects, Athens, GR
Playback, curated by Anne Dressen, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, FR
Sympathy For The Devil, curated by Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Rozamira Festival, Moscow, RU
Destroy Athens, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio and Augustine Zenakos, Athens Biennial, Athens, GR
Fractured Figure: Works From the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, GR
The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art, curated by Kit Hammonds, South London Gallery, London, UK
She Was Born To Be My Unicorn, curated by Amy Kellner, Smith-Stewart, New York City, US
CARToons at COMICON, Changing Role-Move Over Gallery, Naples, IT
Impossibly Familiar, Fashion Institute of Technology, Art Gotham, New York City, US
BoysCraft, curated by Tami Katz-Freiman, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, IL
A New High In Getting Low, ArtNews Projects, Berlin, DE and John Connelly Presents, New York City, US, 2007
Studio Voltaire Portfolio, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
The Studio of the Street, Deitch Projects: Art Basel, Basel, CH
Out of Art, from the Collection of Ernesto Eposito, CentrePasquArt: Kunsthaus Centre d'Art, Biel Bienne, CH
New York Studio Events, Independent Curators International, New York City, US
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York City, US
Night Visions: MOCA after Dark, Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, US
2006
Underplayed: A Mix-Tape of Music-Based Videos, curated by Julio Morales and Berin Golonu, YBCA, Los Angeles, US
Art on Paper, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum,
Greensboro, US
Kamp K48, curated by Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Constant Disturbance: On Cultural Contamination and Foreign Agents, curated by Gean Moreno, Centro Cultural Español, Coral Gables, US
Faces, bodies and contemporary signs of Ernesto Esposito's collection, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (MADRe), Naples, IT
Contemporary Video Art from Brazil, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Tropicalia, curated by Carlos Basualdo, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, US; Barbican, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Ninth Tropical Night – Pablo Internacional, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Panic Room, works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, GR
Infinite Painting, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah C. Canarutto, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, IT
Swallow Harder: Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection, Frye Museum, Seattle, US
Trial Balloons / Globos Sonda, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Augustin Perez Rubio and Octavio Zaya, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon, ES
The Gallery Show, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York City, US
SuPERM Salon/Superhole, Weekend Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, US
2005
Barroque and Neo-Barroque, curated by Javier Panera, Salmanca Contemporary Art Centre, Salamanca, ES
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, curated by Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, US
Manchmal weiss ich nicht, ob ich etwas wirklich erlebt oder ob ich es in einem Film gesehen habe, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, CH, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, DE
op-ish, Samson Projects, Boston, US
Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, Andy Warhol Museum of Art, Pittsburg, US
Draw, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, FR
Growing up Absurd, Kent Institute of Arts and Design, (Herbert Read Gallery), Canterbury, UK
Drone, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Colour My World, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK
2004
Divided by Lightning, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, US
Revenge of Romance, Temporary Contemporary, London, UK
Nocturnal Emissions, Groninger Museum, Groninger, NL
The Star of Track and Field are Beautiful People, Changing Role Gallery, Naples, IT
Byproducts of Work, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
If You Believe Hard Enough…, Rocket Projects, Miami, US
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, US
Carnaval, Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Cave Canem, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Such Things I do Just to Make Myself More Attractive to You, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
The 6th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Consolidated Works, Seattle, US
2003
Hovering, curated by Daniele Balice, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
Fast Forward, Media Art from the Goetz Collection, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
The rules everyone will follow from this day forth, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
Curitiba Biennial, HYPERLINK http://www.bellwethergallery.com Curitiba, BR
Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Today's Man, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Corporate Profit vs. Labor Costs, D'Amelio Terras, New York City, US
K48_Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, curated by Scott Hug, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, FR
GNS: Global Navigation System, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, as part of Aleksandra Mir's Naming Tokyo Project, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Impakt Festival, curated by Arjon Dunnewind, Utrecht, NL
Karaoke Death Machine, Daniel Reich, New York, City, US
Videodrome, Video Screening Program curated by Nicolas Trembley, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, FR
Life/Like, curated by Oliver Kamm, Apartment 5BE, New York City, US
White Columns Benefit, White Columns, New York City, US
Works on Paper, Southfirst, Brooklyn, US
2002
Emerging Artists, curated by Simon Watson, Rhona Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago, US
K48_Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, curated by Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Georges: Abstraction/Surface, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Coleções 3, curated by Néssia Pope, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR
High Desert Test Sites, curated by Andrea Zittel, Andy Stillpass and John Connelly, Joshua Tree, California, US
We'll Become Kings, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Moph, Tokyo, JP
Vidéo Topiques, curated by Lydia Yee , Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, FR
Videodrome II, curated by Anne Ellegood, Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow and Johanna Burton, Zenith Media Lounge, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, US
Room for a Revolution, curated by Kristen VanDeventer and Lisa Williamson, Deluxe Gallery, Chicago, US
End of the Rainbow, Bellwether, Brooklyn, New York City, US
222: 2002: Stardust: Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Kalaman, curated by Anton Kern, Apex Art, New York City, US
Friends and Family, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York City, US
Unknown Pleasures, curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York City, US
Supervideonight, part of the show Superlounge, curated by Andrea Salerno and Mari Spirito, GALe GAtes et al., Brooklyn, US
Bathroom Group Show, curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York City, US
Face Value, curated by Lauren Ross, White Columns, New York City, US
2001
Miss World 1972, curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York City, US
Alpha Flight, curated by John Connelly, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Deslocamentos do Eu: O Auto-Retrato Digital e Pré-Digital na Arte Brasileira, 1976-2001, curated by Tadeu Chiarelli, Itaú Cultural Campinas, Campinas, BR
São Paulo Turística, curated by Ricardo Resende, Museum de Arte Moderna Higienópolis, São Paulo, BR
Biting Style and Spitting Image, curated by Diane Chamber and Denise Delgado, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US
10th Annual Artists' Studio Benefit Tour and Reception, Art In General, New York City, US
2000
To Be Continued, curated by Rebecca Smith and Matt Keegan, Bellwether, Art In General and Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, New York City, US
1998
Recent Works from Project Antárctica Artes com a Folha's Artists, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, BR
City Cannibal, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
1996
Excesso, (Excess), curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
Antárctica Artes com a Folha, Pavilhão Manoel da Nóbraga, São Paulo, BR
avaf received the Enel Contemporanea award in 2008 for their public art installation on the ruins of Largo Argentina in Rome.
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.
Born anytime between the C20th and C21st in various parts of the world, nomads
Current Collaborations:
Visual collaboration with Comme des Garçons
comme-des-garcons.com
GAGA'S WORKSHOP, a collaborative display with Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti, Barneys New York, Madison Avenue, New York City, US
November 2011
barneys.com
Current Solo Exhibition:
Cyclops Trannies, Susanne Geiss Company, New York, US
November 8, 2011 - January 28, 2012
suzannegeiss.com
Current Group Exhibition:
In Living Color, at The Flag Art Foundation, New York City, US
January 21, 2012 - May 19, 2012
flagartfoundation.com
Absolute Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, NO, January 2012
www.nasjonalmuseet.no
The Space Between Now and Then, OMR, Mexico City, MX
November 23, 2011 - February 28, 2012
galeriaomr.com
Upcoming Solo Exhibitions:
2012
assume vivid astro focus, KadE, Amersfoort, NL
kunsthalkade.nl
assume vivid astro focus, Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Sicily, IT
fpca.it
Upcoming Group Exhibition:
Collaborations & Interventions, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, ES
April - September 2012
ccandratx.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011
assume vivid astro focus, Galeria Triângulo, São Paulo, BR
Amanda Lepore as Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Amanda Lepore as Andy's Liz , Core, New York City, US
2010
aquí vivimos atisbando fantasmas, Centro De Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, ES
2009
assume vivid astro focus, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, FR
Abra Vana Allucinete Fogo, Gallery Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, BR
affektert veggmaleri akselererende faenskap, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, NO
2008
In Living Contact, curated by Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen, 28th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, BR
Cover, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), curated by Fernando Oliva, São Paulo, BR
I/Legitimo, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
Graffiti, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
aqui volvemos adornos frivolos, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
antonella varicella arabella fiorella, curated by Francesco Bonami, public project for ENEL Contemporanea 2008, Rome, IT
aimez vous avec ferveur, special window project for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, US
absolutely venomous accurately fallacious (naturally delicious), Deitch Projects, New York City, US
2007
Concrete Waves: Homage to Skate Culture, (with Ryan McGinness), P.S. 1 and Art Basel Miami Beach, Collins Park, Miami, US
aux dark shada rustic moniques, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, JP
a very anxious feeling, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
2006
abra vana alucinete fogo, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, BR
Open Call, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna, AU
absorb viral attack fantasy, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, JP
butch queen realness with a twist of pastel color, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
2005
Off the Wall Series, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, US
assume vivid astro focus XIV" (in collaboration with Elmgreen and Dragset), Indianapolis, US
homo crap #2, Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, IT
assume vivid astro focus XII: butch queen realness with a twist in pastel colors (featuring Dick Jewell), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2004
assume vivid astro focus XI, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Private Collection, Key Biscayne, Florida, US
Make Out With You: A Slow Dance Club, Collaboration with Los Super Elegantes, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
assume vivid astro focus IX, public art project for Central Park sponsored by The Public Art Fund, in conjunction with the Whitney Biennial, New York City, US
2003
assume vivid astro focus VII, Deitch Projects, New York City, US
2002
assume vivid astro focus V, Peres Projects, San Francisco, US
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011
Nothingness and being skinny, curated Gerardo Contreras, Black Cubicle Toilet Gallery, Celeste House, Mexico City, MX
Amanda Lepore as Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Amanda Lepore
as Andy's Liz, Fred Torres presents David LaChapelle in collaboration
with assume vivid astro focus, CORE: club Core, New York City, US
2010
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons, The New Museum, New York City, US
Demons, Yarns & Tales, James Cohen Gallery, New York City, US
2009
Dissonanze, Rome, IT
When Live Becomes Form, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
New York Minute, curated by Kathy Grayson, Macro Future Museum, Rome, IT
Deslocamentos, curated by Eduardo Raccah, Brazilian Embassy,
Berlin, DE
Zweckgemenschaft, curated by Francesco Stocchi, MICA MOCA,
Berlin, DE
Scorpio's Garden, curated by Kirstine Roepstorff, Temporaere Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, DE
Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, US
One night performance with Black Meteoric Star, Donau Music Festival, Vienna, AT
Chelsea Visits Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, CU
2008
In Living Contact, curated by Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen, 28th São Paulo Biennial, , São Paulo, BR
The Voting Booth Project, curated by Quang Bao, benefit exhibition for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, David Zwirner Gallery, New York City, US
Cover, curated by Fernando Oliva, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo, BR
I/Legitimo, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
The Rocky Mountain People Show, curated by Fabio Cavallucci and Cristina Natalicchio, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemmporanea, Trento, IT
When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the Future – Brazil, Japan, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo, BR and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, JP
Super#3, an one night performance with Black Meteoric Star (Gavin Russom), Maison des Arts de Créteil, Paris, FR
Glasgow International, curated by Caroline Stevenson, Glasgow, UK
Tiny Art Show, curated by Maxwell Williams, Cynders Gallery, Brooklyn, US
Gravity: Selected works from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Museo Artium, Vitoria, ES
2007
shada shada La Chatte, one night performance in collaboration with La Chatte, part of La Noche en Blanco, organized by Museo Reina Sofia and ARCO, Matadero, Madrid, ES
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 City, US
Space For Your Future, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, JP
Gravity's Rainbow, Peres Projects, Athens, GR
Playback, curated by Anne Dressen, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, FR
Sympathy For The Devil, curated by Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Rozamira Festival, Moscow, RU
Destroy Athens, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio and Augustine Zenakos, Athens Biennial, Athens, GR
Fractured Figure: Works From the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, GR
The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art, curated by Kit Hammonds, South London Gallery, London, UK
She Was Born To Be My Unicorn, curated by Amy Kellner, Smith-Stewart, New York City, US
CARToons at COMICON, Changing Role-Move Over Gallery, Naples, IT
Impossibly Familiar, Fashion Institute of Technology, Art Gotham, New York City, US
BoysCraft, curated by Tami Katz-Freiman, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, IL
A New High In Getting Low, ArtNews Projects, Berlin, DE and John Connelly Presents, New York City, US, 2007
Studio Voltaire Portfolio, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
The Studio of the Street, Deitch Projects: Art Basel, Basel, CH
Out of Art, from the Collection of Ernesto Eposito, CentrePasquArt: Kunsthaus Centre d'Art, Biel Bienne, CH
New York Studio Events, Independent Curators International, New York City, US
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York City, US
Night Visions: MOCA after Dark, Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, US
2006
Underplayed: A Mix-Tape of Music-Based Videos, curated by Julio Morales and Berin Golonu, YBCA, Los Angeles, US
Art on Paper, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum,
Greensboro, US
Kamp K48, curated by Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Constant Disturbance: On Cultural Contamination and Foreign Agents, curated by Gean Moreno, Centro Cultural Español, Coral Gables, US
Faces, bodies and contemporary signs of Ernesto Esposito's collection, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (MADRe), Naples, IT
Contemporary Video Art from Brazil, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Tropicalia, curated by Carlos Basualdo, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, US; Barbican, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Ninth Tropical Night – Pablo Internacional, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Panic Room, works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, GR
Infinite Painting, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah C. Canarutto, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, IT
Swallow Harder: Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection, Frye Museum, Seattle, US
Trial Balloons / Globos Sonda, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Augustin Perez Rubio and Octavio Zaya, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon, ES
The Gallery Show, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York City, US
SuPERM Salon/Superhole, Weekend Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, US
2005
Barroque and Neo-Barroque, curated by Javier Panera, Salmanca Contemporary Art Centre, Salamanca, ES
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, curated by Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, US
Manchmal weiss ich nicht, ob ich etwas wirklich erlebt oder ob ich es in einem Film gesehen habe, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, CH, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, DE
op-ish, Samson Projects, Boston, US
Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, Andy Warhol Museum of Art, Pittsburg, US
Draw, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, FR
Growing up Absurd, Kent Institute of Arts and Design, (Herbert Read Gallery), Canterbury, UK
Drone, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Colour My World, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK
2004
Divided by Lightning, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, US
Revenge of Romance, Temporary Contemporary, London, UK
Nocturnal Emissions, Groninger Museum, Groninger, NL
The Star of Track and Field are Beautiful People, Changing Role Gallery, Naples, IT
Byproducts of Work, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
If You Believe Hard Enough…, Rocket Projects, Miami, US
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, US
Carnaval, Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Cave Canem, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Such Things I do Just to Make Myself More Attractive to You, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
The 6th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Consolidated Works, Seattle, US
2003
Hovering, curated by Daniele Balice, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
Fast Forward, Media Art from the Goetz Collection, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
The rules everyone will follow from this day forth, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
Curitiba Biennial, HYPERLINK http://www.bellwethergallery.com Curitiba, BR
Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Today's Man, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Corporate Profit vs. Labor Costs, D'Amelio Terras, New York City, US
K48_Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, curated by Scott Hug, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, FR
GNS: Global Navigation System, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, as part of Aleksandra Mir's Naming Tokyo Project, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Impakt Festival, curated by Arjon Dunnewind, Utrecht, NL
Karaoke Death Machine, Daniel Reich, New York, City, US
Videodrome, Video Screening Program curated by Nicolas Trembley, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, FR
Life/Like, curated by Oliver Kamm, Apartment 5BE, New York City, US
White Columns Benefit, White Columns, New York City, US
Works on Paper, Southfirst, Brooklyn, US
2002
Emerging Artists, curated by Simon Watson, Rhona Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago, US
K48_Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, curated by Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Georges: Abstraction/Surface, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Coleções 3, curated by Néssia Pope, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR
High Desert Test Sites, curated by Andrea Zittel, Andy Stillpass and John Connelly, Joshua Tree, California, US
We'll Become Kings, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Moph, Tokyo, JP
Vidéo Topiques, curated by Lydia Yee , Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, FR
Videodrome II, curated by Anne Ellegood, Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow and Johanna Burton, Zenith Media Lounge, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, US
Room for a Revolution, curated by Kristen VanDeventer and Lisa Williamson, Deluxe Gallery, Chicago, US
End of the Rainbow, Bellwether, Brooklyn, New York City, US
222: 2002: Stardust: Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Kalaman, curated by Anton Kern, Apex Art, New York City, US
Friends and Family, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York City, US
Unknown Pleasures, curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York City, US
Supervideonight, part of the show Superlounge, curated by Andrea Salerno and Mari Spirito, GALe GAtes et al., Brooklyn, US
Bathroom Group Show, curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York City, US
Face Value, curated by Lauren Ross, White Columns, New York City, US
2001
Miss World 1972, curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York City, US
Alpha Flight, curated by John Connelly, John Connelly Presents, New York City, US
Deslocamentos do Eu: O Auto-Retrato Digital e Pré-Digital na Arte Brasileira, 1976-2001, curated by Tadeu Chiarelli, Itaú Cultural Campinas, Campinas, BR
São Paulo Turística, curated by Ricardo Resende, Museum de Arte Moderna Higienópolis, São Paulo, BR
Biting Style and Spitting Image, curated by Diane Chamber and Denise Delgado, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US
10th Annual Artists' Studio Benefit Tour and Reception, Art In General, New York City, US
2000
To Be Continued, curated by Rebecca Smith and Matt Keegan, Bellwether, Art In General and Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, New York City, US
1998
Recent Works from Project Antárctica Artes com a Folha's Artists, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, BR
City Cannibal, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
1996
Excesso, (Excess), curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, BR
Antárctica Artes com a Folha, Pavilhão Manoel da Nóbraga, São Paulo, BR
avaf received the Enel Contemporanea award in 2008 for their public art installation on the ruins of Largo Argentina in Rome.
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.