Vik Muniz

Brazilian (Active in USA) | 1961

Vik Muniz is a Brazilian (active in USA) photographer who was born in 1961. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Saatchi Gallery in London. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Bilbao Fine Arts Museum have featured Vik Muniz's work in the past.Vik Muniz's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 25 USD to 293,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 293,000 USD for The Sugar Children: Valentina, the Fastest; Jacynthe Loves Orange Juice; Big James Sweats Buckets; Lil' Calist Can't Swim; Valicia Bathes in Sunday Clothes; Ten Ten's Weed Necklace, sold at Christie's New York in 2015. In the past 12 months, his photographs have averaged 16,873 USD.Vik Muniz has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Observer in April 2025.

Artist's alternative names: Vicente Jos茅 de Oliveira Muniz

Featured for Sale

The Tower Of Babel , After Pieter Bruegel (Gordian Puzzle) ,2007

By Vik Muniz

Gallery Art

20th Century Fox ,2008

By Vik Muniz

Heritage Auctions, Dallas

Rocking

By Vik Muniz

Bellmans, Sussex

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Notable Lots

Elizabeth Taylor (From Pictures of Diamonds) - Vik Muniz

Elizabeth Taylor (From Pictures of Diamonds) ,2004

By Vik Muniz

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The Sugar Children: Valentina, the Fastest; Jacynthe Loves Orange Juice; Big James Sweats Buckets; Lil' Calist Can't Swim; Valicia Bathes in Sunday Clothes; Ten Ten's Weed Necklace ,1996

By Vik Muniz

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4 Works: Marilyn Monroe (From Pictures of Diamond Dust) - Vik Muniz

4 Works: Marilyn Monroe (From Pictures of Diamond Dust) ,2003

By Vik Muniz

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Mnemonic Vehicle (Jaguar E-Type) - Vik Muniz

Mnemonic Vehicle (Jaguar E-Type) ,2015

By Vik Muniz

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Rocking

By Vik Muniz

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20th Century Fox ,2008

By Vik Muniz

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Recent Auction Results

Horse (from the Monad series - Vik Muniz

Horse (from the Monad series ,2003

By Vik Muniz

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Monte Sainte-Victoire, A Partir de Cézanne, from Imagens de Pigmento (Monte Sainte-Victoire, From Cézanne, from Pictures of Pigment) (C.d.L. p. 602) - Vik Muniz

Monte Sainte-Victoire, A Partir de Cézanne, from Imagens de Pigmento (Monte Sainte-Victoire, From Cézanne, from Pictures of Pigment) (C.d.L. p. 602) ,2006

By Vik Muniz

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Grace Kelly (from pictures of Diamonds), 2004 - Vik Muniz

Grace Kelly (from pictures of Diamonds), 2004 ,2004

By Vik Muniz

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Current Exhibitions

Flowers: Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture

Saatchi Gallery

London | UK

Feb 12,2025 - May 05,2025

By Dawn鈥檚 Early Light

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Durham | North Carolina | USA

Aug 01,2024 - May 11,2025

Contemporary Song: Works From The Mário Teixeira Da Silva Collectionin The Serralves Collection

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art

Porto | Portugal

Nov 29,2024 - Jun 01,2025

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Articles

ArtDaily 21/04/2025

Platinum to Postcards: Collecting Photography at MAM (2000鈥� 2025) offers a rare look at the Montclair Art Museum鈥檚 photography acquisitions over the past 25 years鈥攆rom early 20th-century prints to bold contemporary works.

Observer 03/04/2025

Early sales suggest Brazil鈥檚 art scene is thriving despite a punitive tax system and global headwinds.

ArtLyst 24/02/2025

The 2025 edition of Frieze Los Angeles wrapped up on Sunday, February 23, marking a milestone year for the fair with strong sales, major institutional acquisitions, and an outpouring of support for the city鈥檚 artists.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Muniz is known for his use of unlikely materials such as dust, toys, wire, caviar and diamonds to recreate images drawn from our collective memory... 鈥�
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Galerie Templon, Brussels

鈥� ..1961) is best known for his reimagined imagery and the inventiveness of his technique... 鈥�
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Galerie Edwynn Houk

鈥� ..Best known for his re-creations of iconic images from visual culture made using nontraditional materials and recorded with a camera, Muniz here strips the work of representational imagery, in a direct... 鈥�
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Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

鈥� ..While keeping within the conceptual frameworks of Muniz's previously established images, Verso marks a return to the object-making that first brought him attention in the late 1980s... 鈥�
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Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

鈥� ..Muniz's elaborate material creations - in this case the magazine collages - are ephemeral; it is his masterly photographic documentation that is the final work of art, which is intentionally many steps... 鈥�
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Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong