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Ana Linnemann ::
"The World as an Orange"
2005

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ana Linnemann moved to New York in 1990. She holds a BA from the School of Art and Design, PUC, Rio de Janeiro, and she received an MFA from Pratt Institute in New York. One of her most recent projects, BeadBeat, will be exhibited this July at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro. Another current work entitled The World as an Orange, was shown at the Sculpture Center, New York, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, Säo Paulo and Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro. She has also exhibited at the Museo de Arte Latino-Americana de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina, Pedras Bordadas/Espaços Vestidos Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, and in New York at El Museo del Barrio, the Bronx Museum, Long Island University, the Rotunda Gallery, Islip Art Museum and White Box. She recently received fellowships from the Vitae and the Pollock-Krasner foundations.

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Vik Muniz ::
"Still Life with Apples"
2004 chromagenic print, 40" x 54"

Vik Muniz was born in Säo Paulo, Brazil in 1961 and moved to the United States in 1983, living first in Chicago before relocating to New York. Muniz has exhibited his photographs extensively throughout the world, representing Brazil in the 2001 Venice Biennale. He has had solo shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the International Center of Photography in New York, the Miami Art Museum, the Miro Foundation in Barcelona, and the Menil Collection in Houston to name a few. Muniz's work is also in numerous permanent collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Tate Gallery, London, and numerous other museums in Europe, the United States, and Brazil.

website: www.vikmuniz.net

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Janaina Tschäpe ::
"Sala de Espera (Waiting Room)"
2001, 3 channel video installation

Born in Germany in 1973 to a German father and Brazilian mother, Janaina Tschäpe lived primarily in Säo Paulo, Brazil as a child. She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 1992 to 1998 before moving to New York and completing her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in 1998. Tschäpe has exhibited her paintings, drawings, photographs and video installations throughout the world, with solo shows at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, the Scottsdale Museum of Art, the Reina Sofia Art Center in Madrid, Nichido Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Artforum Berlin, and Centre d'Art a Albi, Toulouse, France, among others. Her work is included in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of museums in Europe, the United States, Brazil and Japan.

Carole Perry, curator ::

Carole Perry received an MA in Art History from Hunter College. As an exhibition coordinator for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, she managed all facets of Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, and Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline: Abstration in the 20th Century, and coordinated various aspects of Tapies, Picasso and the Age of Iron, and The Italian Metamorphosis. She also curated the exhibition Alice Jane Bryant: Recent Paintings for the Hopper House Art Center.


Claudia Calirman ::

Claudia Calirman has a Ph.D. in Art History from The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She teaches at Parsons School of Design, New York, and at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and is a Gallery Lecturer at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.