ADRIANA VAREJÃO

Varejão was born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro. Her work has been featured in solo museum exhibitions worldwide, including Azulejões, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília (2001); Chambre d’échos / Câmara de ecos, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2005, travelled to Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon; and DA2, Salamanca, Spain); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2007); Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brumadinho, Brazil (2008); Adriana Varejão: Histórias às Margens, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2012, travelled to Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro; and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, through 2013); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2014); Kindred Spirits, Dallas Contemporary (2015); and Transbarroco, Villa Medici, Rome (2016). Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brumadinho, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro; Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Rio de Janeiro; Tate, London; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Fundació Bancària “la Caixa,” Barcelona, Spain; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, among others.

In 2008 a permanent pavilion dedicated to Varejão’s work was inaugurated at Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea in Brazil. In 2016 she was commissioned to produce a temporary mural, based on her epic work Celacanto provoca maremoto, which covered the entire facade of the Centro Aquático for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Varejão lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

Courtesy Gagosian