Regina Vater
| Regina Vater | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1943 (age 72–73) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian American |
| Education | BA Architecture, School of Architecture, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964 |
| Known for | Photography, video art, multimedia art, visual poetry |
Regina Vater is a Brazilian-born American visual artist best known for her installation artwork inspired by Brazilian and African-Brazilian mythologies. In the 1960s she designed the first album cover for the Tropicália movement,[1] a Brazilian art movement associated with the Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. In 1970 she had her first installation, "Magi(o)cean". She has conducted numerous interviews with John Cage, including a video interview that eventually became a part of her film Controverse. She moved to New York in the 1970s, and in 1979 she curated "the first and most comprehensive Brazilian avant-garde exhibit in the city at that time."[1] In 1980 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[2] She lived in Austin, Texas with her husband, video installation artist and professor Bill Lundberg, until 2011, when they both moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vater's work is known for its feminist themes and questions regarding culture and identity.
Past exhibitions
- Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, France (1967) [3]
- Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1976)[3]
- São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (1981)[4]
- Texas Triennial (1988)[4]
- P.S.1 Museum, New York, US (1989)[3]
- Koninklijk National Royal Museum, Antwerp, The Netherlands (1992)[3]
- Brazilian Visual Poetry, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, US (2002)[3]
Permanent collections
(Source: Artspace[3])
- National Library of France, Paris, France
- The Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- The Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, San Antonio, Texas
- The Blanton Museum of the University of Texas, Austin, Texas
- The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Visual Poetry Archives, Miami, Florida
References
- 1 2 "Regina Vater Papers, 1967-2009". Regina Vater Papers, 1967-2009. The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ↑ "Guggenheim Fellows". Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Artspace profile of Regina Vater". Artspace. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- 1 2 "Artpace's profile on Regina Vater". Artpace.org. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
External links
- Profile on Artspace
- interview (English) by Regina Célia Pinto
- 2004 interview by Cary Cordova for the Archives of American Art, in her home in Austin
- Regina Vater Papers, 1967–2009
- "El Jardin" video
- "A Árvore de mel" video
- Trajetórias de Regina Vater - dissertação PGEHA-USP Talita Trizoli