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MIGUEL RIO BRANCO BIOGRAPHY
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1946
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Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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EDUCATION
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1968
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Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2004
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Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Miguel Rio Branco, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid
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2003
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Door into Darkness, Aperture’s Burden Gallery, New York
Nakta, FNAC, Paris – Montparnasse
Foto Arte Brasília, Espaço Cultural Contemporaneo Venancio, Brasília,Brasil
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2002
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Teoria da Cor, Galeria André Millan, São Paulo
Fast Flash Backs, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Objetos Diretos, Galeria Paulo Fernandes, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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2001
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Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid
Between the eyes the desert, D'Amelio Terras, New York
Miguel Rio Branco, Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Veneza
Entre los ojos, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid
Gritos Surdos, Centro Portugues de Fotografia, Porto, Portugal
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2000
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Pele do Tempo, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
Photographs, William Benton Museum, Storrs, Connecticut, EUA
Nature presque Mort, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Door into Darkness, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece
Miguel Rio Branco, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Entre los Ojos, Fundació La Caixa, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Entre los Ojos, Centro Insular de Cultura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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1999
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Silent Book Galeria Módulo, Lisboa
Nakta , Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco
Entre los Ojos, Fundación La Caixa, Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Sketches of Fear, D’Amelio Terras, New York
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1998
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Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
London Projects, London
Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid
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1997
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Between the eyes, the desert . In Site 97, San Diego
Nakta, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York
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1996
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Agathe Gaillard Gallery, in Mois de la Photo, Paris
Santa Rosa, Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, New York
Nakta (including instalations: Small reflexions on a certain bestiality and Out of nowhere) Casa Vermelha, I Bienal Internacional deFotografia da Cidade de Curitiba, Paraná (book publised by Fundação Cultural de Curitiba) Galeria Joel Edelstein Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
Out of Nowhere, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (three installations: Dialogues with Amaú, Out of Nowhere 2, Door into Darkness)
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1995
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Galeria Luisa Strina
Out of Nowhere, IFA Gallery, Sttutgart, Germany (catalog published)
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1993
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Centro de estudios Romulo Gallegos, Caracas
Space Archide, Paris
Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris
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1992
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Stadtliche Galerie Tuttlingen, Berlin
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1991
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Foto Forum Frankfurt
IFA Gallery Bonn (catalog published)
Petites réflexions sur une certaine bestialité, Chapelle St. Jean de Moustier, Rencontres d’Arles, France
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1990
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Drawings and paintings, Espaço Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro
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1989
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Paintings, Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro
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1988
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Heart Mirror of Flesh, Pallazo Fortuny, Venice (catalog published by Idea Books)
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1987
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Coração Espelho da Carne (photographs), Fotoptica, São Paulo
Coração Espelho da Carne, FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro
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1986
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Foto Sequências (photographs), Fotogaleria Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires
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1985
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Coração espelho da carne(photographs), Magnum Gallery, Paris
Coração espelho da carne, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, NewYork
Coração espelho da carne, Fotogaleria FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro
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1982
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Fotografias, Gabinete de Cultura, Bilbao, Spain
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1980
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Nada levarei qundo morrer aqueles que mim deve cobrarei no inferno (photographs and audio-visual), Galeria Fotoptica, São Paulo
Nada levarei qundo morrer aqueles que mim deve cobrarei no inferno, Fotogaleria FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro
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1979
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Negativo Sujo (photographs), Theater Castro Alves, Salvador
Negativo Sujo, Núcleo de Arte Contemporânea, João Pessoa
Negativo Sujo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo
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1978
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Negativo Sujo (photographs), Escola de Artes Visuais, Rio de Janeiro
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1977
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Photographs, Ipanema Gallery, Tel Aviv
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1974
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Photographs, Galeria Grupo B, Rio de Janeiro
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2004
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The L.A. Years, Part 2, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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2003
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Revisitar Canárias, Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas
Gran Canaria, Galeria Elba Benítez, Madrid
Beauty, the Beast, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston
Calcio di Rigore, Scuderie del Palazzo Santacroce, Roma
Arte em Movimento, Galeria BNDS, Rio de Janeiro
Bzzzz, Silvia Cintra Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro
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2002
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Violência e Paixão, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, curadoria de Ligia Canongia
Mundos Credos, Fotogalerie n˚5, Nederland
La Mirada, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich
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2001
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Brazil Body and Soul, Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Thread Unraveled, El Museo del Barrio, New York
Virgin Territory, The National Museum of Woman for the Arts, Washington, DC
Bienal 50 anos, Fundação Bienal, São Paulo
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2000
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Mostra Brasil +500, Módulo de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo
Two Brazilian Photographers: Miguel Rio Branco and Mario Cravo Neto
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
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1999
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Biennal of Contemporary Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Magnum 50 Ans, Paris
Carnaval, Museo Extremeño de Arte Contemporâneo, Badajoz
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
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1998
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Amnesia, curated by Christopher Grimes, Track 16 and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California; travelling to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia and The Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa; The Bronx Museum, NY
Florida Museu das Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
LUMO 98 Jyvaskila Finland
Mysterious Voyages, Contemporary Museum Baltimore
Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot
The Garden of the Forking Paths, Kunstforenningen Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki
Poéticas da Cor, Centro Cultural Light , Rio de Janeiro
Poéticas da Cor, Centro Culural São Paulo, São Paulo
Roteiros Roteiros Roteiros…. , XXIV Bienal de São Paulo
Arte Contemporânea Brasileira:Um e Outro, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo
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1997
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TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, Site Santa Fe, NM
Between the Eyes the Desert, In Site 97, San Diego
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1996
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Door into Darkness (instalation), Prospect 96, Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Excesso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
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1995
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Panorama da arte brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
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1994
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Out of Nowhere, Castillo del Morro, La Havana Biennal
Out of Nowhere, Ludwig Forum, Germany
A Hidden View, Barbican Center Concourse Gallery, London
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1993
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Paixão do olhar, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Arte Amazonas, Berlin Kunsthalle
Sobre Santiago - Tres de Magnum, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
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1992
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Arte Amazonas, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
V Vigo Foto Bienal
Brazilian Color Photography, Houston Photofest, EUA
Arte e Poder, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
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1990
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Suadouro (photographs), Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Small reflexions on a certain bestiality, audiovisual instalation, Photo Biennale Rotterdam
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1989
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Rio Hoje (painting), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
3a Bienal de Arte de Cuba (photographs), La Habana 1989
UABC: Contemporary Art in Uruguai, Argentina, Brasil, Chile (photographs), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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1987
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Latin American Photography, Australian Center of Photography, Sydney
On the Line, the New Color Photojournalism, Spencer Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery
Masters of Street Photography III, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
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1986
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50 Jahre Moderne Farbfotografie, Fotokina, Cologne
On the Line, the New Color Photojournalism, Walker Art Center of Minneapolis, Portland Museum of Art, Oakland Art Museum
1a Quadrienal de Fotografia, Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Diálogo com Amaú (multi-visual installation), Rencontres Photo d’Arles
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1985
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Auto retrato do brasileiro, Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Brazilian Color Photography, Burden Gallery - Aperture Foundation, NY
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WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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The Metropolitan Museum of New York
The Museum of Art of São Paulo
Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro
The Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo
The Museum of Photographic Arts of San Diego
The George Pompidou Center, Paris
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
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1997
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Nakta, Prix du Livre Photo, Rencontres internationales de la Photographie, Arles.
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1995
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Santa Rosa series, FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro
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1994
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Santa Rosa series, Bolsa Vitae, Sao Paulo
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1993
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Crianca de Rua, Rockfeller Foundation, New York
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1988
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Memoria Viva (by Otavio Bezerra), Best direction of photography –Brazilia Film Festival, Brazilia.
Abolicao (by Zozimo Bulbul), Best direction of photography – Brazilia Film Festival, Brazilia.
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1986
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Apaga-te Sesamo, Special prize of the Jury – International Short Film Festival, Salvador/Best Video and Film Direction – Film and Video Festival of Maranhao, Maranhao.
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1982
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Fotografias, Prix Kodak de la Critique Photograhique, Paris.
Nada levarei quando morrer aqueles que mim deve cobrarei no inferno, Special Jury Prize and The International Critics Award, XI Festival du Film de Court Metrage et du Film Documentaire, Lille.
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1981
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Nada levarei quando morrer aqueles que mim deve cobrarei no inferno, Film Festival – Best photograph, Brazilia
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1980
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Great Prize of the Photograph Triennale, Museum of Modern Art (MAM), Sao Paulo.
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Artist's page
© Christopher Grimes Gallery
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