Valeska Soares

Untitled (Vanishing Point), 1998
Glass, rubber, perfume
Courtesy Liebman Magnan Gallery, NY

  

Valeska Solares was born in Belohorizonte, Brazil, in 1957 and moved to New York in 1992. Solo exhibitions have been organized at San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (1999) and at Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (1998). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (1994), at SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1995), at the Bienal de Johannesburg, Cape, South Africa (1997) and at the XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Argentina.
 

Selected Bibliography

Cameron, Dan. " A Dream of Wakefulness," Catalog for Amnesia, Los Angeles, 1998.

Ferguson, Bruce and Vincent Varga. "Longing and Belonging, from the Faraway Nearby," Catalogue for SITE Santa Fe, 1995.

Herkenhoff, Paulo. Catalogue published for the occasion of XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, 1994.

Jones, Kelly. " Life's Little Necessities," Catalogue of 2nd Bienal Internacional de Johannesburg, 1997.

Schwabsky, Barry. "Art from Brazil in New York", Artforum, summer, 1995.

 

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