Regina Vater

Regina Vater
Born 1943 (age 7273)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian American
Education BA Architecture, School of Architecture, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964
Known for Photography, video art, multimedia art, visual poetry

Regina Vater is a Brazilian-born American visual artist best known for her installation artwork inspired by Brazilian and African-Brazilian mythologies. In the 1960s she designed the first album cover for the Tropicália movement,[1] a Brazilian art movement associated with the Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. In 1970 she had her first installation, "Magi(o)cean". She has conducted numerous interviews with John Cage, including a video interview that eventually became a part of her film Controverse. She moved to New York in the 1970s, and in 1979 she curated "the first and most comprehensive Brazilian avant-garde exhibit in the city at that time."[1] In 1980 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[2] She lived in Austin, Texas with her husband, video installation artist and professor Bill Lundberg, until 2011, when they both moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vater is also known as a female Brazilian artist who eventually had worked with feminist themes and identity/cultural questions.

Past exhibitions

Permanent collections

(Source: Artspace[3])

References

  1. 1 2 "Regina Vater Papers, 1967-2009". Regina Vater Papers, 1967-2009. The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  2. "Guggenheim Fellows". Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Artspace profile of Regina Vater". Artspace. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Artpace's profile on Regina Vater". Artpace.org. Retrieved 2 February 2014.

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