Beatriz Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting.
11 Facts About Beatriz Milhazes
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Figurehead of the 80s Generation, period of the Brazilian art characterized by the return of young artists to painting, Beatriz Milhazes still lives in Rio, where she was born in 1960.
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Beatriz Milhazes is considered as one of the most important Brazilian artists, having participated at Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ; Sydney Biennial, Sydney ; Venice Biennale ; Sao Paulo Biennial ; and Shangai Biennial, Shangai.
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Beatriz Milhazes is represented by Pace Gallery, New York; Galeria Fortes D'Aloia e Gabriel, Sao Paulo; Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; and White Cube, London.
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Beatriz Milhazes's work is known to contain many Brazilian folk references and can be interpreted as complex in this regard.
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Beatriz Milhazes' paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the picture Marotoloco is in the collection of the Perez Art Museum Miami, the Banco Itau, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
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In terms of technique, Beatriz Milhazes is predominantly concerned with the principle of collage, drawing from her combined knowledge of both Latin American and European traditions.
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The cultural mixing of her native Brazil is something Beatriz Milhazes is aware of and to some degree communicates in her paintings as well as being in ties with the Brazilian modernist movement.
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Beatriz Milhazes describes these pieces of plastic affectionately, stating that they are imprinted with a memory, a memory that can cause irregularities.
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Beatriz Milhazes has had solo and group exhibitions in a number of museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
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In 2015, Beatriz Milhazes presented her first United States career survey at the Perez Art Museum Miami, in Florida.