Flavio Shiró

Flavio Shiró (Sapporo, Japan 1928)

Flavio Shiró is a painter, engraver, designer and set designer. He arrived in Brazil in 1932 and settles with his family in a Japanese colony in Tomé-Açu, Pará. He takes up residence in São Paulo from 1940. He studies at the Getúlio Vargas Professional School, where he meets Octávio Araújo (1926), Marcelo Grassmann (1925) and Luiz Sacilotto (1924–2003). He attends the Santa Helena group around 1943, contacting artists such as Alfredo Volpi (1896–1988) and Francisco Rebolo (1902–1980). In 1947, he joined the Seibi group. The following year, he works at the painting by the painter Tadashi Kaminagai (1899–1982). Severini (1883–1966), metal engraving with Johnny Friedlaender (1912–1992) and lithography at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, in addition to attending the Atelier de Sugai and Tabuchi. In the 1960s, he participated in the Brazilian artistic movement and was part of the Austral group (Movimento Phases), from São Paulo.

Dedicated himself to informal abstraction since the 1950s. From the 1970s onwards, his canvases pass to present suggestions for figures, sometimes fantastic or monstrous beings. In 1990, the book Flávio-Shiró was published, by Editora Salamandra. The exhibition Trajectory: 50 years of painting by Flavio-Shiró is presented at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ) and at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, in Tokyo, in 1993, and at the Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), in 1994.

Critical Comment

After starting his career with figurative works, of an expressionist character, Flávio-Shiro is dedicated to informal abstraction from the 1990s. 1950. Creates works in which the gestures of the brushstroke and the surfaces loaded with matter, frequently employing black and dark or neutral colors, stand out.

In the early 1960s, Shiro lets a possibility of Drawing in frames in which you gradually use light backgrounds, in contrast to dark images. In some canvas, it presents organic forms, approaching figuration, as in Delfica (1963). As noted by art critic Reynaldo Roels Jr., since the 1970s, the central focus of his canvases moves to the figure, even if it is not easily discerned. From then on, the figures, often suggestions of fantastic or monstrous beings, appear with all force in their canvases, in abstract contexts.

Shiro works with the conscious ambiguity between figuration and abstraction. In its paintings, the contained palette, the elaborate textures and the balance between graphics and chromatic stain stand out. For Roels Jr., Shiro is an artist who addresses contradictions inherent in contemporary painting, such as abstraction and representation, and objectivity and subjectivity.

Criticism

"Flavio-S. Tanaka, in symmetry and fugitiveness of his best-acting paintings, demonstrates the same immediacy and connection of ideas and the execution of extreme-eastern art. Black, which in atmospheric paintings we have seen preferably highlighted by the use of whites, is an always vital element: 'Organizado Instinctively the composition with black ink, necessity or preference that perhaps explains by my Japanese origin.' In fact, this color (sometimes combustion) plays a special importance in the fabric of the canvas, a structure that the artist seeks to dissimulate. Painting as Action Painting A long horizontal or a short and vertiginous vector, curves or broken lines are all elements of stability and control in the Dionysian polychromy of the set. 
(...) It belongs to an effervescent generation, of Difficult and even crucial alternatives at this time of the century, called to succeed the splendid flowering of complex and heterogeneous characters of the category of Frautrier and Fontana, by Pollock and Dubuffet".
Walter Zanini
Flávio-Shiró. Rio de Janeiro: Salamandra, 1990. p.170

"(...) The painting of this Japanese, transported from its early years to the heart of the Brazilian geographical and ethnic milieu, appears, in effect, profoundly South American, by inspiration, while All orientalism in it is absent. Only, one can point out his taste for the line, the speed of the design and its expressive heat. 
This design was not placed, as in certain Japanese, in the service of a philosophical attitude. Realism marked by a sovereign subjectivity. 
Flavio-Shiró achieves a style that could be qualified as 'non-figurative lyrical realism'. Its vegetation, its fauna and always a human presence aware of its impotence in the face of the phenomena of life, but a vigilant spectator, ready to interpret the suggestive, symbolic and poetic value. 
Each painting by Flavio-Shiró is a transposition Total who refuses the tricks of the analysis, reduces the effects of the composition and tends to a total and direct expansion. Brazilian".
Georges Boudaille
BOUDAILLE, Georges. Flávio-Shiro and the Brazilian reality.  In: Flávio-Shiro. Rio de Janeiro: Salamandra, 1990. p.171.

"Flavio-Shiró has half a century of painting. of work, far from the impositions of the market and the media. He is an artist who made his studio a sacred territory, guarding an almost religious atmosphere. This behavior does not mean an alienation from the things of the world, including politics, economics and technology, but without a doubt what prevails, in the Its creator is the humanist vision of Art. A demure humanism, which has nothing pamphleteering or demagogic. 
No work of art, regardless of the particular experience of life it transmits, is born outside the history of art either Isolated and untouched in a platonic sky. If art is a way of experiencing the world, it will always be contaminated by life. Each of Shiró's canvases carries the weight of the history of art and culture. I intuit, in the cruciform structure of one of its recent canvases, the elusive presence of Grunewald, in others, the Baroque pathos or the Gothic transcendence, in others, still some reminiscences of prehistory. Without ever having disconnected from the workshop side of creation, which often leads him to manufacture his own painting or drawing materials and to overcome various techniques, which result in a rich and attractive material. Flavio-Shiro is a learned artist. In his works, he dialogues with the art of the present and the past, with informalism and the new figuration, with Venetian painting and Spanish mannerism and also with Freud and Greek mythology, with Jean Genet and Win Wenders, with the best theater and the better literature. The exhibitions and films he sees, the books he reads, the plays he watches, the trips he makes to so many different places, the deep memory of facts and situations lived on three continents, Brazilian nature and luminosity, and the rich experience of everyday life that comes to add to the activity Incessant of the unconscious, they form the cultural crucible that will feed his pictorial work, the substrate that serves as the basis for the questions that, through painting, he is continually making to the world".
Frederico Morais
MORAIS, Frederico. Flávio-Shiró: inquiry and silence. In: Flavio-Shiró.

Testimonies

"Roots

I am like the figueira brava, connected to three continents by aerial roots: its complementary and contrast saps feed me. 
The roots of Sugui, attached to the flanks of the mountains of my native Japan, go very early to join those of the gigantic samaúma of the Amazon of my childhood.

That's where my memory awoke and that I started to participate in a violent mutation. 
Fascinated, I see up close the world that reveals itself. 
The boa links its prey, crushes it and then swallows it. 
The crab spider jumps over a birds. 
Hordes of scorpions, armed stingers, shake from one side to the other like samurai, in a poisonous crackle. 
Giant frogs swell and distill poisons when are touched. There they are, copulating in the shadow of a palm tree. The guava tree is celebrating with the metamorphosis of butterflies. The intoxicating perfumes of bacuri and cupuaçu are mixed with the smell of fermented cassava. Sun a pin. 
Tremo: Malaria.

The Amazon River runs slow and immense. 
Time runs too. I'm in São Paulo, a city still teenager. 
It was there that my love for painting was born. Sitting on the roof, I paint my first landscape. 
The world is at war. Brazil is an oasis. 
Youth, time of battles. of dreams too: Paris.

A beautiful day I'll meet you there. Standing on the platform of the green bus, amazed, I see the boulevards of plane trees and chestnut trees, kiosks and urinals parade. Street vendors fill the air with their screams. The singer-accordionist plays Musette waiting for the coins to fall from the sky. Suddenly, a strike. Everything stopped. The piles of garbage begin to hide the other side of the street. The crowd parades: demonstrations. In cafes, abstraction is discussed while existentialism dies. The bald singer debuts in a basement.

Wars and Wars. the technological revolution is accelerated. The sky is carried with sophisticated hardware. The sword of Damocles becomes increasingly heavy. 
Live, love, suffer, paint, expose, evolve.

I realize that the roots of my fig tree also infiltrated us. interstices of the marais stones. 
In my garden the sap of spring awakens the wild roses".
Flavio-Shiro
Text from the exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1983
Flávio-Shiró. Rio de Janeiro: Salamandra, 1990. p. 34.

Corps

Ville de Paris - France
Fonds National d'art Contemporain - France
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art - Tokyo (Japan)
Museum of Modern Art - Havana (Cuba)
Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art - MAM/RJ
Museum of Contemporary Art University of São Paulo - MAC/USP
São Paulo Museum of Art - MASP
Salvador Museum of Modern Art - MAM/BA
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo - PESP

Individual exhibitions

1950 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - First individual, at Enba
1952 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Clube Cerejeira
1956 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Arnaud Gallery
1959 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Arnaud Gallery
1959 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at MAM/RJ
1959 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria São Luís
1960 - Salvador BA - Individual, at MAM/BA
1962 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Galerie H.Legendre
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Petite Galerie
1963 - Salvador BA - individual, at Galeria Querino
1963 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at FAAP
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at MAM/RJ
1969 - Brussels (Belgium) - individual, Galerie Arcanes  
1973 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Galeria L'Oeil de Boeuf
1974 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Petite Galerie
1974 - São Paulo SP - Pastels de Flavio-Shiró, at Galeria Arte Global
1975 - Washington (United States) - Individual, at the Brazilian-American Cultural Institute
1977 - Paris (France) - individual, at the Galerie L'oeil de Boeuf  
1978 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Art Cabinet
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Saramenha Gallery
1983 - Paris (France) - individual, at Espace Latino-Américain
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Saramenha Gallery
1983 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Paulo Figueiredo Art Gallery
1985 - São Paulo SP - Flavio-Shiró: Paintings, at the São Paulo Art Gallery
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Saramenha Gallery
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Thomas Cohn Gallery
1993 - Bourges (Belgium) - Individual, at Maison de la Culture
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Trajectory: 50 years of painting by Flavio-Shiró, at MAM/RJ 
1993 - Tokyo (Japan) - Trajectory: 50 years of painting by Flavio-Shiró, at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
1994 - São Paulo SP - Trajectory: 50 years of painting by Flavio-Shiró, at MASP - Award Retrospective
1998 - Niterói RJ - Flávio-Shiró in the João Sattamini collection and recent works, at MAC/Niterói
1999 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Nara Roesler Gallery
2003 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Nara Roesler Gallery
2008 - São Paulo SP - Flavio-Shiró: three world painter: 65 years of career at the Tomie Ohtake Institute
2008 - Belém PA - Flavio-Shiró: three worlds painter: 65 years of trajectory, at the Casa das Onze Janelas Museum
2008 - Belém PA - Trajectory of Tomé-Açu to the world, at the Casa das Onze Janelas Museum
2008 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Flavio-Shiró: Three-world painter: 65 years of history, at the Centro Cultural Correios

Collective exhibitions

1947 - São Paulo SP - 19 painters, at the Prestes Maia Gallery - 4th Lunardelli Award
1949 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 55th National Salon of Fine Arts, at the MNBA - Bronze Medal
1951 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition of dead natures, in the food and pension service Social
1951 - São Paulo SP - 1st São Paulo International Biennial, at the Trianon Pavilion
1951 - São Paulo SP - 1st São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1952 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st National Salon of Modern Art
1952 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition of Brazilian artists, at MAM/RJ
1952 - São Paulo SP - 1st Salon of the Seibi Group of Plastic Artists, at the Club Sakura
1952 - São Paulo SP - 1st Sebikai Salon - Gold Medal
1952 - São Paulo SP - 2nd São Paulo Salon of Modern Art - Acquisition Award
1956 - Paris (France) - Divergences, At the Galerie Arnaud
1956 - Paris (France) - Les Arts en France et dans le Mond, at the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1957 - Amsterdam (Holland) - Divergences, at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
1957 - Nantes (France) - Festival d'Art d'Avant-Garde, at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Industrial Creation Center 
1957 - Paris (France) - Salon Comparaisons, at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
1957 - Paris (France) - Divergences, Galerie Arnaud  
1957 - São Paulo SP - 4th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Ciccilo Matarazzo Sobrinho Pavilion
1957 - Schiedam (Holland) - Divergences at the Stedelijk Museum
1958 - Cleveland (United States) - Eight Painters, at Howard Wise Gallery 
1958 - Paris (France) - Divergences, Galerie Arnaud
1958 - Paris (France) - Salon Réalités Nouvelles, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1959 - Leverkusen (Germany) - First collective exhibition of Brazilian artists in Europe 
1959 - Munich (Germany) - First collective exhibition by Brazilian artists in Europe, at Kunsthaus. 
1959 - Paris (France) - Antagonismes, at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs
1959 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1959 - São Paulo SP - 5th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Ciccilo Matarazzo Sobrinho Pavilion
1959 - Vienna (Austria) - First collective exhibition by Brazilian artists in Europe  
1960 - Hamburg (Germany) - First collective exhibition by artists Brazilians in Europe
1960 - Lisbon (Portugal) - First collective exhibition of Brazilian artists in Europe  
1960 - Madrid (Spain) - First collective exhibition of Brazilian artists in Europe  
1960 - New York (United States) - Guggenheim International Award, at the Guggenheim Museum
1960 - Paris (France) - First collective exhibition by Brazilian artists in Europe 
1960 - Santiago (Chile) - Art Brazilian
1960 - Utrecht (Holland) - First collective exhibition of Brazilian artists in Europe 
1961 - Paris (France) - 2nd Bienal de Paris - Paris Acquisition Award City of Paris and International Painting Award
1961 - Paris (France) - Salon Réalités Nouvelles, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1961 - São Paulo SP - 6th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Pavilion Ciccilo Matarazzo Sobrinho
1962 - Paris (France) - Exposition d'Art Latin Americain à Paris, at the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris de Paris de Paris
1963 - Belo Horizonte MG - Belo Horizonte City Hall - 1st Prize
1963 - Paris (France) - 7 Artistes Brésiliens de l'Ecole de Paris, at the Galerie XX Siècle
1963 - São Paulo SP - 7th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
1964 - Paris (France) - Du General Au Particulier, at the Houston Brown Gallery
1964 - Paris (France) - Salon Comparaisons, at the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - New Figuration: Escola de Paris, at Galeria Relivo
1965 - Paris (France) - Eight laureates of the Bienal de Paris, at Galerie Françoise Ledoux
1965 - São Paulo SP - 8th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Bienal Foundation
1965 - Tokyo (Japan) - Nippo-Brazilian Paintings Today, at the Embassy of Brazil 
1966 - Havana (Cuba) - Paintings from Latin America, at Casa de las americas
1966 - Madrid (Spain) - Round Painting
1966 - Paris (France) - Salon Comparaisons, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1966 - São Paulo SP - half a century of Art Nouveau, MAC/USP
1966 - São Paulo SP - Japanese-Brazilian artists, at MAC/USP
1967 - Paris (France) - Salon Réalités Nouvelles, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville of Paris
1967 - São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
1968 - Campo Grande MS - 28 artists from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, in the Galeria do Diário da Serra
1968 - Córdoba (Argentina) - Bienal de Córdoba
1968 - São Paulo SP - 19 painters, at the theme Art Gallery
1969 - Fortaleza CE - 28 artists from the museum of contemporary art collection from the University of São Paulo, at the Raimundo Cela
1969 - Norway - Latin American Art: Scandinavia
1969 - Sweden - Latin American Art: Scandinavia
1969 - Denmark - Latin-American Art: Scandinavia
1969 - São Paulo SP - 19 Japanese-Brazilian artists, at MAC/USP
CA.1970 - Rome (Italy) - Vision 24, at the Instituto Italo Latino-Americano
1970 - Barcelona (Spain) - Latin American artists from Paris, at Sala Gaudí
1970 - London (England) - Bertrand Ruussel Centenary International Art Exhibition
1970 - Poitiers (France) - 117 Dessins et Gravures de Peintres Latino-Américains, at the Center Culturel
1970 - Rome (Italy) - Vision 24, at the Ítalo-Latino-American Institute
1970 - São Paulo SP - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo 1970
1972 - São Paulo SP - 6th Young Contemporary Art, at MAC/USP
1973 - Darmstadt (Germany) - Neue Darmstadter Sezession
1974 - Cagnes-sur-Mer (France) - International Festival Peinture - National Painting Award 
1974 - Paris (France) - May Salon at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1978 - Menton (France) - Bienal de Menton
1978 - Paris (France) - Jeune Peinture, at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
1978 - Paris (France) - Les Huns, at the Center National d'Art Contemporain
1978 - São Paulo SP - 3 generations of Japanese-Brazilian artists, at the Global Art Gallery
1978 - São Paulo SP - 19 painters, at MAM/SP
1981 - Osaka (Japan) - Latin American Exhibition of Contemporary Art Brazil/Japan, at the National Museum of Art
1982 - Paris (France) - L'Amérique Latine à Paris, at the Grand Palais
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Between the Mancha and the Figure, at MAM/RJ
1982 - Venice (Italy) - Latin American artists, at the Museum of Modern Art
1983 - Paris (France) - L'Amerique Latine à Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
1983 - São Paulo SP - Re-reading Project, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
1984 - Havana (Cuba) - 1st Bienal de Havana, at the National Museum de Bellas Artes
1984 - Paris (France) - Salon Comparaisons, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian painting active Petrobras
1984 - São Paulo SP - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection: Portrait and Self-Portrait of Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1984 - São Paulo SP - Tradition and Rupture: Synthesis of Brazilian Art and Culture, at the Foundation Bienal
1985 - São Paulo SP - 18th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Biennial Foundation
1985 - São Paulo SP - Japanese artists in the MAC collection at MAC/USP
1985 - São Paulo SP Paulo SP - Latin American artists from Paris, at MAC/USP
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st Christian Dior Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Painting, at Paço Imperial - 2nd Prize
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Times of war: Pensão Maúa and Hotel Internacional, at the Art Gallery Banerj
1986 - São Paulo SP - 17th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1987 - Paris (France) - Modernity: Brazilian Art of the 20th century, at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - to the collector: tribute to Gilberto Chateaubriand, at MAM/RJ
1988 - Belém PA - Heritage of the Japan: Aspects of the Japanese-Brazilian Visual Arts, at the Romulo Maiorana Foundation
1988 - Brasília DF - Japan Heritage: Aspects of the Japanese-Brazilian Visual Arts  
1988 - Curitiba PR - Heritage of Japan: Aspects of the Visual Arts Japanese-Brazilian, at MAC/PR
1988 - Manaus AM - Heritage of Japan: Aspects of the Japanese-Brazilian Visual Arts, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
1988 - Porto Alegre RS - Heritage of Japan: Aspects of the Visual Arts Japanese-Brazilian, at Margs
1988 - Recife PE - Heritage of Japan: aspects of the Japanese-Brazilian visual arts, at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation. Instituto de Cultura  
1988 - São Paulo SP - 63/66 Figure and object, at the Millan Gallery
1988 - São Paulo SP - Modernity: Brazilian art of the 20th century, at MAM/SP
1988 - São Paulo SP - Life and Art of the Japanese in Brazil, at MASP
1988 - São Paulo SP - Heritage of Japan: aspects of the Japanese-Brazilian visual arts, at MAB/FAAP
1989 - Recife PE - Memory Game  
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Inheritance from Japan: aspects of Japanese-Brazilian visual arts, at MNBA
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Memory Game, at Montesanti Galleria
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio Today, at MAM/RJ
1989 - São Paulo SP - 20th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation - Itamaraty Award
1989 - São Paulo SP - 20th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP - Awarded
1989 - São Paulo SP - Memory Game, at Montesanti Roesler Gallery
1990 - Atami (Japan) - 9th Exhibition Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art
1990 - Brasília DF - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Grenoble (France) - Façades Imaginaires
1990 - São Paulo SP - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, at the Brazil-Japan Foundation 
1990 - Sapporo - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Tokyo (Japan) - 9th Exhibition Brazil-Japan of Contemporary Art
1992 - Curitiba PR - 10th Engraving Exhibition City of Curitiba/Mostra América, at the Engraving Museum
1992 - Poços de Caldas MG - Brazilian Modern Art: Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, at the Casa de Cultura
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Eco Art, at MAM/RJ - Awarded
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazil, 100 years of Modern Art, at MNBA
1993 - São Paulo SP - The Brazilian modern design: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the SESI Art Gallery
1993 - São Paulo SP - Works for illustration of the literary supplement: 1956-1967, in the MAM/SP
1994 - Frankfurt (Germany) - The thickness of the sign: contemporary Brazilian design, at Karmeliter Kloster
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The modern design in Brazil: Gilberto Collection CHATEUBRIAND, at MAM/RJ
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século 20th, at the Bienal Foundation
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - O Grito, in the MNBA
1996 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian art: 50 years of history in the MAC/USP collection: 1920-1970, at MAC/USP
1997 - Barra Mansa RJ - The museum visits the gallery, at the Centro Universitário de Barra Mansa
1997 - São Paulo SP - Phases: Surrealism and Contemporaneity - Grupo Austral and Cone Sul, at MAC/USP
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - International Traveling Japan-Brazil Exhibition, at the Clóvis Salgado Foundation. Palácio das Artes
1998 - Ipatinga MG - International traveling show Japan-Brazil
1998 - Niterói RJ - Mirror of the Bienal, at MAC/Niterói
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - A vision of contemporary art, in the MNBA
1998 - São Paulo SP - The modern and the contemporary in Brazilian art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection - MAM/RJ, at MASP
1998 - São Paulo SP - São Paulo: Japanese-Brazilians, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1998 - São Paulo SP - Elective Affinities I: The Collector's Look, at Casa das Rosas
1999 - Bath (England) - Into the Light, at Royal Academy of Photography
1999 - Brasília DF - International Traveling Exhibition Japan-Brazil, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1999 - Niterói RJ - Exhibition Rio Engravura. Banerj Collection, at the Ingá Museum
1999 - Paris (France) - Latin American art, at UNESCO
1999 - Paris (France) - International Contemporary Art Fair - FIAC
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition Rio Engraving: Chagall, Daumier, Derain, Miró, Shiró and Banerj Collection, at Casa Fança-Brasil
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio Engraving Show. Armando Sampaio Collection: Brazilian engraving, at the Centro de Artes Calouste Gulbenkian
1999 - São Paulo SP - Japan-Brazil traveling international exhibition, at MASP
2000 - São Paulo SP - Almeida Júnior: an artist Revisited, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brazil + 500 Rediscovery Show, at the Bienal Foundation
2000 - São Paulo SP - New work, at MAC/USP
2000 - São Paulo SP - Dialogue: Contemporary Art Brazil/Ecuador, at the Latin America Memorial. Galeria Marta Traba
2000 - Quito (Ecuador) - Dialogue: Contemporary Art Brazil/Ecuador, at the Puce Cultural Center
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The image of the sound of Antônio Carlos Jobim, in the Imperial Palace
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Watercolor, at the Light Cultural Center
2001 - São Paulo SP - Japanese-Brazilian Art: Moments, at the Euroart Castelli gallery
2002 - Niterói RJ - Dialogue, Antagonism and replication in the Sattamini collection, at MAC/Niterói  
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian art in the Fadel collection: from the restlessness of the modern to the autonomy of language, in the CCBB
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Caminhos do Contemporânea 1952-2002, at Paço Imperial
2002 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian art in the Fadel collection: from the restlessness of the modern to the autonomy of language, in the CCBB
2002 - São Paulo SP - Map of the Now: Recent Brazilian Art in the João Sattamini Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute
2002 - São Paulo SP - Gate 2, at the Nara Roesler Gallery
2003 - Brasília DF - Brazilian art in the Fadel collection: from the restlessness of the modern to the autonomy of language, at CCBB 
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian art: from the revolution from 30 to post-war, at the of Modern Art
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Autonomy of Drawing, at the Museum of Modern Art
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - BrazilianArt Project, at Almacén Galeria de Arte  
2003 - São Paulo SP - Art and Society: a controversial relationship, at Itaú Cultural
2003 - São Paulo SP - Tomie Ohtake in the Spiritual Trama of Brazilian Art, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute
2004 - Campinas SP - Metropolis Art Collection contemporary, at the CPFL Cultural Space
2004 - Niterói RJ  - Transitive modernity, at MAC/USP
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Tomie Ohtake in the spiritual plot of Brazilian art, in the MNBA
2004 - São Paulo SP - Abstraction as a language: profile of a collection, at Pinakotheke
2004 - São Paulo SP - As Bienais: a look at the Brazilian production 1951/2002, in the gallery Bergamin
2004 - São Paulo SP - Fifty 50, at the Museum of Modern Art
2004 - Curitiba PR - Tomie Ohtake in the spiritual plot of Brazilian art: an exhibition commemorating the artist's 90th anniversary, at the Oscar Museum Niemeyer
2005 - São Paulo SP - Art in Metropolis, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute
2005 - São Paulo SP - pain, form, beauty: the creative representation of the traumatic experience, in the station Pinacoteca
2005 - São Paulo SP - Odorico Tavares: my Bahian house - dreams and desires of a collector, at the SESI Art Gallery
2005 - Curitiba PR - Art in Metropolis, at the Oscar Museum Niemeyer
2005 - Curitiba PR - Odorico Tavares: my Bahian house - dreams and desires of a collector, at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum
2006 - São Paulo SP - Modern art in context: ABN Amro Collection Real, at Banco Santander
2006 - São Paulo SP - Painting - Painting and Method: Projections from the 50s, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute
2006 - Recife PE - Modern Art in Context: ABN Amro Real Collection, Banco Real Institute
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Modern Art in Context: ABN AMRO Real Collection, at the Museum of Modern Art
2007 - Curitiba PR - Art in Space and Time, at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum
2008 - São Paulo SP - Brazil-Japan Art, at MAC/USP
2008 - São Paulo SP - Laços do Olhar, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute
2008 - São Paulo SP - Nipo-Brazilians in the collection of Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
2008 - São Paulo SP - Panorama dos Panoramas, at the Museum of Modern Art
2008 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Nippon - 100 years of integration Brazil-Japan, at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
2009 - São Paulo SP - Memorial revisited: 20 years, at Galeria Marta Traba
2009 - Niterói RJ - Brazilian contemporary art in the João Sattamini collections and Mac de Niterói, at the Museum of Contemporary Art
2010 - São Paulo SP - 6th SP-Arte, at Fundação Biena
2011 - São Paulo SP - 7th SP-Arte, at the Bienal Pavilion

Source: Itaú Cultural