Born 1961 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Lives and works in Sao Paulo.
Education |
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| 1984 | BFA in Fine Arts, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, Sao Paulo |
Awards |
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| 2019 | Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| 2012 | APCA Award: Best Exhibition of the Year – Estação Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo |
| Artist in residence, Yale University School of Art | |
| 2001 | John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1998 | Visiting artist, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam |
| 1991 | Visiting artist, University College, Oxford |
| Visiting artist, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts, University of Oxford | |
| Artist in residence, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford | |
| Artist in residence, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | |
Solo Exhibitions (Selection) |
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| 2019 | 2019 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| 2017 | Add It Up, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh |
| Institutional Ghost, IMMA–Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin | |
| 2016 | Borders are Drawn by Hand, MoCa Pavilion, Shanghai |
| 2014 | Jac Leirner. Functions of a variable, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
| Jac Leirner, Pesos y Medidas, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | |
| 2012 | Hardware Silk, Edgewood Avenue Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven |
| 2011 | Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Sao Paulo |
| 2008 | Osso 008, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo |
| 2005 | Little Lights, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire |
| 2004 | Adhesive 44, Miami Art Museum, Miami |
| 2002 | Jac Leirner: Ad Infinitum, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro |
| 2001 | Cem Temas, Uma Variação, exposição relâmpago, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo |
| Hip Hop, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo | |
| 1999 | Projeto Parede, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo |
| Centro Cultural, São Paulo | |
| 1998 | Hip Hop, The Bohen Foundation, New York |
| 1993 | Corpus Delicti, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva |
| Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana, Porto Alegre | |
| 1992 | Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. |
| 1991 | Viewpoints, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
| Currents, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | |
| Museum of Modern Art, Oxford | |
Group Exhibitions (Selection) |
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| 2021 | A máquina do mundo: Arte e indústria no Brasil 1901 – 2021, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo |
| 2020 | Momentum, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar |
| 2019 | Portadores de sentido – Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico |
| 2018 | Comfortably Numb: A Critical Investigation into the Cultural Impact of Drugs and Narcotics, ANOTHER SPACE, New York |
| 2016 | Between Object and Architecture, Tate Modern, London |
| Clube de Gravura – 30 Anos, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo | |
| 2015 | The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah Biennial 12 |
| Possibilities of the Object: Experiments in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| 2012 | This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| 2011 | 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
| 2009 | Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 2005 | 5th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre |
The works of Jac Leirner are often created from mundane or formally unremarkable materials such as bank notes, blankets, cigarette paper, or water levels. Her large-scale installations recall the formal strictness of minimalist seriality and the evocative use of found materials characteristic of Arte Povera, while at the same time offering commentary on social codes.
