Thiago Rocha Pitta

 

Born 1980 in Tiradentes MG, Brazil.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Due Albe, Gluck50, Milan (IT)
The First Green, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (USA)

2015
Temporal Maps of a Non-Sedimented Land, Boesky East, New York (USA)

2014
ATLAS/OCEANO , Galeria Millan, San Paolo (BR)

2013
Thiago Rocha Pitta, Yerba Center for the Arts, San Francisco (USA)
Thiago Rocha Pitta
, Gluck50, Milano (IT)
Projeto para uma Pintura com Temporal #6, Public Art Project, Duque De Caxias (BR)

2012
O Campo Acampa, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, San Paolo (BR)
Nostalgia of Pangea, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenaghen (DK)

2011
Saudades da Pangeia, Galeria Millan, San Paolo (BR)

2010
Notas de um Desabamento, EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro (BR)

2009
A Rocky Mist, Galerie Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe (D)

2008
Calmaria, Galeria Millan, San Paolo (BR)
Notes on an Inland Shipwreck, Andersen’s Contemporary, Berlino (D)
The BAR vol. 2 – Donna Ong and Thiago Rocha Pitta, SCAI X SCAI, Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT], Tokyo (J)

2007
Uma Trilogia, Pavilhão Ascensão, San Paolo (BR)
Heritage, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenaghen (DK)

2006
Requiem, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro (BR)

2003
Fonte, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (BR)

2002
Homenagem a William Turner / Homage to William Turner, Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro (BR)

2001
A cópula e os espelhos, Castelinho do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro (BR)


 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
Ordering Nature, Boesky East, New York (USA)
Landscapes – Revisited, Olympic Sculpture Park – Alvord Art Lab, Seattle (USA)

2013
 Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (BR)
Super 8, MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Dark Paradise, The Clocktower Gallery, New York (USA)
Opinione Latina (1), Galleria Francesca Minini, Milano (I)
Ground. Materiality no.2 (Earth), Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø (DK)
Blind Field, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign (USA)

2012
Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (USA)
A iminência das poéticas. The imminence of poetics, 30° Bienal de São Paulo, San Paolo (BR)
Home Again – 10 Artists Who Have Experienced Japan, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (J)
St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz (CH)
Super 8, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)
Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk, 21er Haus, Vienna (A)

2011
Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica (USA)
Unresolved Circumstances: Video Art from Latin America, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach (USA)
Commercial Break, Garage Projects, 54. Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (I)
The Garden of Forking Paths, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurigo (CH)
L’Idée de Nature, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse (F)

2010
Fragments latino-américains, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Parigi (F)
The Traveling Show, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Città del Messico (MEX)

2009
After Utopia, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (I)
Auszeit, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg (D)
NatureNation, Museum on the Seam, Gerusalemme (IL)
Timeout, Artnews Projects, Berlino (D)

2008
Seja marginal, seja herói, Galerie Vallois / Seroussi, Paris (F)
A Stake in the Mud, A Hole in the Reel – Land Art’s Expanded Field 1968–2008, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Città del Messico (MK); Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo (E), Stadtkino-Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (CH), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Siviglia (E)
Paraísos Indomitos / Untamed Paradises, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Siviglia (E); Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo (E)

2007
Number One: Destroy, she said, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (D)

2006
1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore (SK)
Time Frame, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (USA)
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Brasilien, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlino (D)

2005
 Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (BR)
J‘en rêve, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Parigi (F)
11th Triennale-India, Nuova Delhi (IND)

2004
Arte Contemporânea Brasileira nas Coleções do Rio, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro – MAMRJ (BR)
Primeiro Aniversário, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Obra colecionada, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (BR)


 

PRIZES

2009
Open Your Mind Award, St. Moritz Art Masters (CH)

2005
Prêmio CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça (BR)

2001
Prêmio júri popular, Interferências urbanas APA, Rio de Janeiro (BR)


 

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris (F)
Hara Museum, Tokyo (J)
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (D)
Colección Jumex, Città del Messico (MEX)
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York (USA)
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, San Paolo (BR)
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (BR)
Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho (BR)
Instituto Itaú Cultural, San Paolo (BR)