Anna Maria Maiolino Biography

This year, Maiolino had a major retrospective dedicated to her work at PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, in Milan. Entitled “Love is made revolutionary”, the exhibition traveled to the Whitechapel Gallery, in London. In 2017, another important retrospective on Maiolino’s work was presented at the MoCA Los Angeles, as part of the Pacific Standard Time Project: LA/LA. In 2010, "Anna Maria Maiolino" itinerant show was presented at the Antoni Tàpies Foundation, in Barcelona; at Galician Contemporary Art Center, in Santiago de Compostela; and at Malmö Kunsthalle, in Sweden (2011). Her work is present in over 30 museums in Brazil and abroad, among them, MoMA, MoCA Los Angeles, MASP, Malba, Reina Sofia, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern and Galleria Nazionale di Roma.

Selected solo exhibitions include PSSSIIIUUU..., Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo (2022); In Everything, All, Galeria Luisa Strina (2019); Poetic Wanderings, Hauser & Wirth, New York (2018); ALL OF IT, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich (2016); CIOÈ and performance in ATTO, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (2015); Point to Point, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2014); Affections, MASP, São Paulo (2012); Continuum, Camden Arts Centre, London (2010); Territories of Immanence, Miami Art Center, Miami (2006); Many, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2005); Vida Afora/A Life Line, The Drawing Center, New York (2002).

Selected group shows: Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017), and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2018); Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980, MET Breuer, Nova York (2017); The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop, Tate Modern, London (2015); The Great Mother, Palazzo Reale, Milan (2015); Artevida, Museum of Modern Art and Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2014); dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (2012); On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century, MoMA, New York (2010); 29ª Bienal de São Paulo (2010).

Text courtesy Luisa Strina.