Valeska Soares was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in 1957. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Ms. Soares is a multidisciplinary artist and has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. Her work is included in the collections of The Tate Modern, London, The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Inhotim, Brazil, and CAC, Centro De Arte Contemporánea, Malaga, Spain. Upcoming and recent exhibitions include Nuit Blanche New York, Flash: Light, New York, Everything Must Go: A Project with Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, and the 8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
Parágrafos, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Paragraphs, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York, New York
2010
Passa Tempo, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, New York
Vaga Lume, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York, New York
2009
Passa Tempo, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2008
After, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York, New York
2007
After, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil 2006
Walk on by, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2005
nar-cis-sus, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
nar-cis-sus, Vitamin Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Notations, Fusebox, Washington, DC
2003
Follies, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York;
traveled as Caprichos to
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico
Centro Cultural Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza, Brazil
2002
Puro Teatro, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Mirrorings, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
Museu de Arte da Pampulha (MAP), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Detour, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
1999
Vanishing Point, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
Projeto Finep, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
1998
Vanishing Point, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Characters, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Vanity, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
histórias, a project for The Public Art Fund, New York, New York
1997
Personagens, Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
1996
Strangelove, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Strangelove, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Untitled (from Vanishing Point), Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1995
Discontinuous Teasers, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
1994
Fall, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Fall, Information Gallery, New York, New York
1992
Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil
1991
Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Selected Group Exhibitions
