Cildo Meireles (Brazilian)

Born in 1948 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he lives and works. Cildo Meireles is one of Brazil's most significant living artists. Meireles embarked on his career in the 1960's and became part of an avant-garde that set a new agenda for Brazilian art. His intriguing works are politically telling as well as aesthetically seductive. A retrospective of the artist was presented at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1999 and then traveled to the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro and the Museu de Arte Moderna in São Paulo. An extensive presentation of Cildo Meireles work will be shown at Tate Modern from October 2008 to January 2009. The exhibition will then travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.