Norton Museum of Art 2022 Benefit Auction, Palm Beach County, Florida
Norton Museum of Art 2022 Benefit Auction, Palm Beach County, Florida
Vik Muniz
West Palm Beach (Postcards from Nowhere)
Lot Closed
April 11, 08:10 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Vik Muniz
b. 1961
West Palm Beach (Postcards from Nowhere)
Chromogenic print
Edition of 6 and 4 APs (#6/6)
60 1/2 x 40 in. (153.7 x 101.6 cm)
Framed: 60 1/2 x 43 3/8 in. (153.7 x 110.2 cm)
Executed in 2014.
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Courtesy of Ben Brown Fine Arts
Vik Muniz began his artistic career upon arriving in New York in 1983, holding his first solo exhibition in 1988. Muniz has since exhibited at numerous prestigious institutions, including the International Center of Photography, New York; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome; Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo; Museu de Art Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; and the Long Museum, Shanghai. His work is included in major public collections such as the R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York; Tate, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. In 2001, Muniz represented the Brazilian Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale. Muniz is the subject of an Academy Award nominated documentary film entitled ‘Waste Land’ (2010). His public art installation commissioned by the MTA Arts & Design for the 72nd street Second Avenues Subway station opened in 2016. Vik was a creative director of the Rio 2016 Paralympics opening ceremony.