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CV
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 1957. Lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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EDUCATION
B. A. in architecture, Santa Ursula University, Rio de Janeiro.
Spezialisation in art history, Pontifica Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro.
M. F. A. Pratt Institute, NY.
Doctor of Arts degree, New York University, NY.
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1996
CNPq Fellowship for Post-Graduate Studies Abroad,
Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil 1994
CAPES Fellowship for Post-Graduate Studies Abroad,
Ministry of Education, Brazil, 1991
SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
permanent collection
CGAC - Centre de arte contemporánea contextualjado en Galicía, Spain
[email protected]
2001
”Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art”, group exhibition,
Museum of Modern Art, Forth Worth
2000
”Picturing Paradise”, installation Tijuana Beach, Mexico / U.S. Border Field Park
”inSite2000”, San Diego
1999
”Vanishing Point”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
"PanAmerican Project" ("Vanishing Point", 1998)
1998
XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
"Der brasilianische Blick",
curated by Denise Mattar, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
"Um e Outro" (One and Other), curated by A. Pedrosa ("Sem título", 1995)
"Histórias", Project for the Public Art Fund, NY, NY
”Alegorias do Feminino”, Museu de Belas-Artes de Caracas
”Amnesia”, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
1997
"Life`s Little Necessities", Johannesburg Biennial
"Estoes: Arte Objeto e Installación de Iberoamerica",
Centro de Arte Contemporánea, Mexico City
"Eventos, Itaú Cultural: Tridimensionalidade", Arte Brasileira de Século XX
Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
"You are here", Royal College of Art, London
1996
"Transparências", Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
"Strangelove", Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Six women in Red", Galeria St. Luis Serpa, Lisbon
"Collective Soul", Galleria Marabini, Bologna
1995
"The Education of the Five Senses", White Columns, NY, and Palazzo Pamphili, Rom
"Longing and Belonging", Site Santa Fé, New Mexico
"Dark Room", Stark Gallery, NY
1994
XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
"Espelhoes e Sombras", group exhibition, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
1993
"Artists in the Marketplace", The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
"A Presencia do Ready-Made", MAC - University of São Paulo, São Paulo
1991
IV Havana Biennial
1988
Bienal de Escultura ao Ar Livre, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ferguson, Bruce / Vargo, Vincent: "Longing and Belonging, from the Faraway Nearby",
group exhibition, Site Santa Fé, Santa Fé, New Mexico, 1995
Herkenhoff, Paulo: Cat. XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo,
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, São Paulo 1994
Aguilar, Nelson: "Ruptura com o Suporte",
cat. XXII Bienal International de São Paulo, São Paulo 1994
Amoral, Aracy: "Sepelhoes e Sombras", cat. Museu de arte Moderna, São Paulo 1994
Merewether, Charles: "Into the Void", solo exhibition,
Galeria Camargo Vilaca; São Paulo 1994
Pedros, Adriano: "opposites (and all that is in between them)", cat. of solo exhibition,
Information Gallery, New York 1994
Chiarellia, Tadeu: "A Fotografia em Exposicao", cat. of group exhibition,
Centro Cultural São Paulo 1994
Laguado, Lisette: "A Presenca do Ready-Made nos anos 80", cat. of group exhibition, MAC, São Paulo 1993
Canongia, Ligia, cat. of solo exhibition,
Centro Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro 1991
Pedrosa, A. (texts): SOARES, Valeska. Histórias.
PERIODICAS
Bensley, Lis: "Site Santa Fé, A Guide to the Sites". The New Mexican, July 9, 2025
Pedrosa, A.: "Longing and Belonging, from the Faraway Nearby", Frieze, 1995
Iriartre, Maria Elvira: XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo. Artnexus, Winter 1995
Chiarelli, Tadeu: "The Contaminated Gaze, Other Photographs". Poliester, No. 8, 1994
Isaza, Patricia: "International Latin America in Brief". Flash Art, June 1994
Fortes, Marcia: "Valeska Soares", Galeria Camargo Vilaca, São Paulo,
Artnexus, Spring 1994
Amor, Monica: "Contemporary Art from Brazil, Argentina and Colombia",
Artnexus, No. 55, Summer 1993
Mesquita, Ivo Mesquita: Interview in: Poliester, Winter 1993
Camnitzer, Luis: Bienal de la Habana. Venezuelan periodical, 1992
Doctors, Marcio: Valeska Soares. O Globo, August 1981
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