AVAF - assume vivid astro focus

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Born anytime between the 20th and 21st century in various parts of the world, nomads.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2008
aqui volvemos adornos frivolos
, Peres Projects, Berlin
antonella varicella arabella fiorella
, public project for ENEL Contemporanea 2008, Rome, Italy
aimez vous avec ferveur
, special window project for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
absolutely venomous accurately fallacious (naturally delicious)
, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2007
Concrete Waves: Homage to Skate Culture
(with Ryan McGinness), P.S. 1 and Art Basel Miami Beach, Collins Park, Miami, FL
faux dark shada rustic moniques
, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery. Tokyo, Japan

2006
abra vana alucinete fogo
, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Open Call
, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna, Austria

2005
homo crap #2
, Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
assume vivid astro focus XII: butch queen realness with a twist in pastel colors
(featuring Dick Jewell), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

2004
Make Out With You: A Slow Dance Club
, Collaboration with Los Super Elegantes, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
assume vivid astro focus IX
, public art project for Central Park sponsored by The Public Art Fund, New York, USA, in conjunction with the Whitney Biennial

2002
assume vivid astro focus V
, Peres Projects, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2008
The Rocky Mountain People Show
, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemmporanea, Trento, Italy
When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the Future
– Brazil, Japan, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo, Brazil and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, Japan

2007
Playback
, Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville Paris, Paris, France
Sympathy For The Devil
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, NY
Destroy Athens
, Athens Biennial, Poka-Yio and Augustine Zenakos, Athens, Greece
Night Visions: MOCA after Dark
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Tropicalia
, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA; Barbican, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Haus der Culturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Ninth Tropical Night – Pablo Internacional
, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2005
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States
, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Whitney Biennial,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2003
GNS: Global Navigation System
, as part of Aleksandra Mir’s Naming Tokyo Project, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2002
Videodrome II
, Zenith Media Lounge, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2001
São Paulo Turística (Touristic São Paulo)
, Museum de Arte Moderna Higienópolis, São Paulo, Brazil

2000
To Be Continued
, Bellwether, Art In General and Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, New York, NY