Erika Verzutti

Erika Verzutti was born in 1971 in São Paulo.

In her work, Erika Verzutti combines dissimilar elements and styles. She can work with classical materials such as bronze and clay or craftier ones such as papier-mâché and cardboard. Many of her sculptures reveal a special attention to nature through the use of cast fruits and vegetables, other works sources from current matters such as newspaper headlines and internet phenomena.

Erika Verzutti was in residence at LUMA Arles from May 1 to July 15, 2024.

She had solo exhibitions at Hessel Museum - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2023); Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2023); MASP, São Paulo (2021); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2021); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2019); Pivô, São Paulo (2016); SculptureCenter, New York (2015); Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs (2014), and Centro Cultural São Paulo (2012). Selected institutional shows are Geneva Biennale – Sculpture Garden, Geneva (2022); 57th Venice Biennale (2017), 32nd Bienal de São Paulo (2016), 34th Panorama of Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2015), 2013 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2013), 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2013) and the 11th Biennale de Lyon (2011). Her work is present in the collections of Tate Modern, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, among others.