Alexandre Da Cunha Sold at Auction Prices
b. 1969 -
Alexandre da Cunha
Born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1969. Lives and works in London, UK
Education
1996, Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado - FAAP Sao Paulo, Brazil
1999, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2000, MA Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Free Fall, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2015
CRG Gallery, New York, NY
MCA Chicago Plaza Project, Chicago, IL
Real, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
Contratempo, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
Alexandre da Cunha, Frieze New York, New York, NY
2012
Alexandre da Cunha, Curated by Zoe Gray, Le Grand Café Centre d'Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
Full Catastrophe, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
Kentucky Pied de Poule, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Duble, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Monolith, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
Fair Trade, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
Laissez-Faire, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2008
Vilma Gold, London, UK
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Club Sandwich, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
2007
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California
Alexandre da Cunha - Damien Roach, NAK, Aachen, Germany
2006
Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005
Alexandre da Cunha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Colorama, Vilma Gold, London, UK
2004
Carro Novo, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002
Alexandre da Cunha & Brian Griffiths, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998
Alexandre da Cunha, Projeto Macunaima Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2016
Soft Light, ICA Boston, Boston, USA
Haptic, Alexander Gray Assosciates, New York, USA
Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Art Centre, London UK
British Art Show 8, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Brasil, Beleza?! Contemporary Brazilian Sculpture, Museum Beelden Aan Zee, Holland
The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Breese Little, London, UK
Camera of Wonders, MAMM - Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Columbia
2015
British Art Show 8, Leeds, UK
Pangaea II, Saatchi Gallery, London
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Fiber: Sculpture, 1960-Present, ICA Boston, MA
2014
Permission to be Global/ Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Cruzamentos Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Deslize, Museu de Arte do Rio MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arroz sem Sal, Galeria Sylvia Cintra + Box 4, Rio de Janeiro
2013
Decorum, Musee d'Art Modern de la Ville, Paris, France
Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
COLLECTION, Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain Basse - Normandie, Caen, France
Alexandre da Cunha, Michael Rey, Michael Williams, B.Wurtz, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
On The Passage of a Few, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
The World Turned Upside Down - Buster Keaton, Sculpture and the Absurd, Warwick Art Centre, Coventry, UK
2012
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
BLOCK, PILLAR, SLAB, BEAM, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Alexandre da Cunha & Neil Campbell, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
British Modern Remade, Arts Council Collection, Park Hill Estate, Sheffield, UK
Garden of Reason, curated by Tessa Fitzjohn, Ham House, London, UK
Economy of means: toward humility in contemporary sculpture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2011
Making Is Thinking, Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
The Extension, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Caos e Efeito, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Into the Green, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam
As ruas e as bobagens, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Myhtologies, Cité des Arts, Paris, France
Nova Escultura Brasileira, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vestigios de Brasilidade, Santander Cultural Recife, Recife, Brazil
Government Art Collection selected by Cornelia Parker: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2010
Inaugural Show, CRG, New York
First and Last, Notes on the Monument, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Billdertausch 2: A New Presentation of the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
Panamerica, Kurimanzuto Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
The Big Ripoff, Camden Art Centre, London
A Very Very Long Cat, Wallspace, New York
Los Impoliticos, Curated by Laura Bardier, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
2009
2nd San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico
Revolution of the Ordinary, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Pete and Repeat: Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, 176 London
Sniper, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
IV Bienal de Jafre, Girona
China Series, Organhaus, Chongqing
2008
An Unruly History of the Readymade, Ecatepac de Morelos, Mexico
Procedente, MAP Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte
Inhotim new acquisitions, Inhotim Centro de arte contemporanea, Brazil
Transformational Grammars, Galeria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
This is not a void, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field, Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France
Chambres à part II - FIAC 2008, La Réserve - Paris, Paris, France
De perto e de Longe - Paralela, curated by Rodrigo Moura, Liceu de Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nova Arte Nova, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pendre la Cremaillere, Sommer and Kohl, Berlin, Germany
Group show curated by Avo Samuellian, Andre Schlechtriem, New York
2007
Fortunate Objects, CIFO, Miami
Eurovision - Jahresgaben 2007, NAK, Aachen, Germany
Close to me, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Bildertausch 2, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
CTRL_C + CTRL_V, Sesc Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California
2006
Around the World in Eighty Days, ICA/South London Gallery, London
Wrong, Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Contrabando, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Geracao da Virada, Instituto Tomie Otake, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paralela, Pavilhao Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005
Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic
2004
Fragmentos e Souvenirs Paulistanos Vol. 1, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paralela, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Imagine Limerick, EV+A 2004, Limerick
Produciendo Realidad, Prometeo Associazione Culturale, Lucca
Sneeze Project 80 x 80, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens
2003
50th Venice Biennale, The Structure of Survival, Venice, Italy
The Virgin Show, The Wrong Gallery, New York
The Lost Collection of An Invisible Man, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
PoT, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Materia Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba
2001
Brighton Icons, St Batholomew Church, Brighton
Desenhistas e Coloristas, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
13 Videobrasil, Sesc SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Arco das Rosas, Casa das Rosas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000
PICAF, Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan
EV+A Biennial (Friends and Neighbors), Limerick City Art Gallery Limerick
1999
Herancas Contemporaneas, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998
Projecto Macunima, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1997
Suspended Instants, Art in General Gallery, New York
European Media Art Festival Osnabruck, Germany
Selected Museum Collections
Tate Modern, London
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte
Inhotim - Instituto de Arte Contemporanea, Brumadinho
CIFO - Cisneros Collection, Miami
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Waldenbruch
Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo
Grants/Residencies
2010
Artist in Residence, Headland Center for the Arts, Marin, California
2009
Camden Arts Centre's Artists' Studio, Camden Arts Center, London
2008
Guilbaud residency, Martinique
2002
Visiting Artist Programme, Gasworks, London
International Artist-in-Residence Programme, Guernsey College of Art
2001
Welcome Trust Artist-in-Residency Award, Welcome Trust, London
1998
CAPES, Brazilian Sponsorship for the Arts
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