Ernesto Neto
Since the mid-1990s, Ernesto Neto has produced an influential body of work that explores constructions of social space and the natural world by inviting physical interaction and sensory experience. Drawing from Biomorphism and minimalist sculpture, along with Neo-concretism and other Brazilian vanguard movements of the 1960s & 70s, the artist both references and incorporates organic shapes and materials – spices, sand and shells among them—that engage all five senses, producing a new type of sensory perception that renegotiates boundaries between artwork and viewer, the organic and manmade, the natural, spiritual and social worlds.
Born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, the artist continues to live and work in Brazil. He studied at the city’s MAM Museum of Modern Art at Rio de Janeiro in 1984 through 1986, and also attended Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in 1987.
Since then, Neto’s work has been the subject of major museum exhibitions worldwide. In 2011, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey in Mexico opened the artist’s first survey exhibition, La lengua de ernesto: retrospectiva 1987-2011, which travelled to Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City in 2013. The artist also presented important solo exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas (2012), Faena Arts Center in Buenos Aires, which traveled to Estação Leopoldina in Rio de Janeiro (2011-2012), Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre in London (2010) Museum of Modern Art in New York (2010); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo (2010), Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art (2010), Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma in Italy (2008), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2002), and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. (2002), among others. In 2001 he represented Brazil at the 49th Venice Biennale, and in 2017 Neto was prominently featured in Vive Arte Viva at the 57th Venice Biennale curated by Christine Macel.
His work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions and biennials, most recently the 14th Biennale de Lyon, curated by Emma Lavigne (2017), Manifesta 7 (2015), along with 2017 group shows at Guggenheim Bilbao, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Centre Pompidou-Metz, and a permanent installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In summer 2018, a large installation GaiaMotherTree was successfully shown at the Zurich train station, in collaboration with Fondation Beyeler, with a month-long corresponding public and education program that took place inside the work.
Neto’s work is extremely well represented in international museum collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Gallery in London, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Hara Museum in Tokyo, Contemporary Art Center of Inhotim in Brazil, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others.
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Songs in the Dark
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York January 11 - February 20, 2020 -
ERNESTO NETO: CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles September 14 - November 2, 2019 -
ERNESTO NETO: SOPRO (BLOW)
PINACOTECA, SÃO PAULO March 30 - July 15, 2019Sopro [Blow] , which will occupy the Octagon, seven rooms on the first floor and other spaces of the Pina Luz building. Curated by Jochen Volz and Valéria Piccoli ,...Read more -
ERNESTO NETO: Gaiamothertree
Zurich Train Station, commissioned by Fondation Beyeler June 30 - July 29, 2018 -
14TH LA BIENNALE DE LYON
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ERNESTO NETO: THE SERPENT'S ENERGY GAVE BIRTH TO HUMANITY
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York October 29 - December 16, 2016 -
Ernesto Neto: Rui Ni / Voices of the Forest
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark April 21 - October 23, 2016 -
ERNESTO NETO: BOA
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART KIASMA, HELSINKI, FINLAND March 4 - April 4, 2016 -
ERNESTO NETO: MOTHER BODY EMOTIONAL DENSITIES, FOR ALIVE TEMPLE TIME BABY SON
MCA San Diego November 20, 2015 - February 21, 2016 -
ERNESTO NETO: HAUX HAUX
Arp Museum, Germany October 26, 2014 - May 25, 2015 -
The Bigger Picture
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery June 12 - August 1, 2014 -
ERNESTO NETO: GRATITUDE
ASPEN ART MUSEUM, ASPEN, CO June 6 - September 7, 2014 -
Ernesto Neto: The Body that Carries Me
Guggenheim Bilbao February 14 - May 18, 2014 -
ERNESTO NETO: LIFE IS A RIVER
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE December 12, 2012 - March 13, 2013 -
Ernesto Neto: Madness is part of life
Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo September 29, 2012 - January 6, 2013 -
Ernesto Neto: Cuddle on the Tightrope
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Ernesto Neto: Slow iis goood
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York April 14 - May 25, 2012By lifting us off the ground, to float between the floor and the ceiling, Neto offers us a space in which we can slow down, breathe, and rest.Read more -
Ernesto's Tongue: Works 1987-2011
MARCO, MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE MONTERREY, Mexico December 9, 2011 - March 25, 2012 -
Ernesto Neto
Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires September 1, 2011 - February 1, 2012 -
Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York June 25 - July 30, 2010 -
Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre June 19 - September 5, 2010 -
Ernesto Neto: Dancing Allowed
CAC Contemporary Art Center, Cinncinati May 23 - October 24, 2010 -
Ernesto Neto: anthropodino
Park Avenue Armory May 24 - June 14, 2009 -
ERNESTO NETO: ...AI...AI...
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York October 11 - November 15, 2008 -
Ernesto Neto: From What Are We Made, Made, Of Of
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York October 21 - November 25, 2006Continuing his exploration of sculpture’s narrative capacity, Ernesto Neto’s most recent work addresses culture and experience from the cellular level to the mythic, from the micro to the macrocosmic.Read more -
ERNESTO NETO: LEVIATHON THOT
PANTHEON, PARIS September 15 - December 23, 2006 -
ERNESTO NETO
MOCA, Los Angeles September 28, 2003 - January 12, 2004 -
THE SILENT CLIFF: THE GATE, THE HOUSE, THE GARDEN, THE PEOPLE
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York March 22 - April 19, 2003 -
ERNESTO NETO: É O BICHO
ARSENSALE, 49TH VENICE BIENNALE June 10 - November 4, 2001 -
Ernesto Neto: Only the amoebas are happy
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York April 10 - May 12, 2001 -
DRAWINGS
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York September 9 - October 16, 1999 -
Ernesto Neto: NAVEDENGA AND THE OVALOIDS
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York October 22 - November 25, 1998 -
Ernesto Neto
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York March 29 - April 26, 1997The spectator breathes, smells, lives the piece. The objects, these quasi-alive things, offer a sensory, and highly sensual, experience.Read more
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Siobhan Hapaska, Charles Long, Ernesto Neto
MAGASIN 3, STOCKHOLM David Neuman, 2000 Softcover, 53 pages
Publisher: MAGASIN 3, STOCKHOLM KONSTHALL, STOCKHOLM
ISBN: 91-972986-4-6 Read more -
Ernesto Neto
Philip Dodd, Andrew Nairne, Dan Cameron, Katya Garcia-Anton., 2000 Read more -
Ernesto Neto: Leviathan Thot
2006 Hardcover, 102 pages
Publisher: EDITIONS DU REGARD, PARIS
ISBN: 284105201X
Dimensions: 12.8 x 9.4 x 0.6 inches Read more -
Ernesto Neto: The Malmö Experience
2006 Read more -
Ernesto Neto: MACRO/HALL
2008 Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Electa
ISBN: 8837062508
Dimensions: 9 x 0.5 x 12 inches Read more -
Ernesto Neto: La Lengua de Ernesto
Miguel A. López, Adriano Pedrosa and Jessica Morgan, 2011 Softcover, 400 pages
Publisher: MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE MONTERREY / FAENA ARTS CENER Read more -
Ernesto Neto: Dengo
Museu de arte moderna de São Paulo 2010 Read more -
Ernesto Neto: Cuddle on the Tightrope
Nasher Sculpture Center Jed Morse, Jeremy Strick, 2012 Softcover, 48 pages pages
Publisher: Nasher Sculpture Center
Dimensions: 9 x 9 in Read more -
Ernesto Neto: From Sebastian to Olivia
2008 Hardcover, 120 pages pages
Publisher: Holzwarth Publications
Dimensions: 8.5 x 10.75 in Read more -
Ernesto Neto
Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Verena Gamper, Thomas Miessgang., 2016 Hardcover, 192 pgs pages
Publisher: Walther König, Cologne
Dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Read more -
Ernesto Neto: The Body That Carries Me
Rainer Hehl, Franck Leibovici, Pedro Luz, Hannah Monyer, Luiz Alberto Oliveira, Raphaela Platow, Tania Rivera, 2014 Softcover, 144 pages pages
Publisher: Ediciones Poligrafia
ISBN: 8434313286
Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 in Read more -
Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World
Moacir dos Anjos, Cliff Lauson, Ralph Rugoff, Philip Ursprung, 2010 Softcover, 156 pages pages
Publisher: Hayward Publishing, London
Dimensions: 285mm x 235mm Read more -
Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin: Aru Kuxipa—Sacred Secret
2016 Softcover, 208 pages pages
Publisher: MIT Press
Dimensions: 8.25 in x 11.5 in Read more -
Ernesto Neto: Haux Haux
Kathy Lewin, Jutta Mattern , 2014 Softcover, 160 pages pages
Publisher: Strzelecki Books
ISBN: 3942680629
Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.7 x 10.3 inches Read more
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Ernesto Neto
Fondation Beyeler August 20, 2018Artist Talks is a program organized by the Fondation Beyeler and UBS in which internationally renowned contemporary artists speak about their work. The talks have...Read more -
Ernesto Neto
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre July 21, 2010The immersive, sensory installations of Ernesto Neto transform the upper spaces of the Hayward Gallery, both inside and out.Read more