Anita Malfatti

Anita Malfatti (São Paulo, SP, 1889 - also, 1964)

Anita Malfatti was a Brazilian painter, illustrator, engraver, illustrator, and teacher, recognized as one of the pioneers of modern art in Brazil. Recognized as one of the pioneers of modern art in Brazil, her work was fundamental in transforming the national art scene. Her career was marked by resilience, courage, and a relentless pursuit of expressive freedom.

Childhood and Early Education

Anita Malfatti was born in São Paulo, the daughter of Italian engineer Samuele Malfatti and American painter and polyglot Eleonora Elizabeth Krug (Betty), of German origin. From birth, Anita's life was marked by challenges: she had a congenital disability in her right arm, which led to surgery at the age of three in Lucca, Italy, with the hope of correcting the atrophy. However, the operation was not completely successful, and Anita learned to use her left hand for all her activities, including painting. This fact, far from limiting her, was fundamental to her adaptation and artistic development.

Anita spent her childhood in São Paulo, where she excelled in her artistic studies from an early age. Her mother, Betty, who was also a painting teacher, was her first mentor, and her taste for art was also influenced by her uncle and godfather, the engineer Jorge Krug. In 1903, she entered Externato São José, where she began her formal education, and later studied at Mackenzie College, graduating with a degree in normalista in 1906.

First Contact with the International Art World

In 1910, with the financial support of her uncle Jorge Krug, Anita traveled to Germany to further her studies. In Berlin, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and studied with renowned masters such as Fritz Burger, Lovis Corinth, and Ernst Bischoff-Culm. It was during this period that Anita came into contact with modern art, especially Expressionism. She visited the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne in 1912, where she had the chance to see the works of Vincent van Gogh and other avant-garde artists, which profoundly influenced her.

Anita was particularly drawn to the Expressionist technique, which prioritized subjectivity and emotion, moving away from rigid academic norms. However, due to the impending war, she left Berlin and traveled to Paris before returning to Brazil.

First Exhibition and Reactions in Brazil

In 1914, back in Brazil, Anita held her first solo exhibition in São Paulo, but the public reaction was polarized. The harshest criticism came from writer Monteiro Lobato, who attacked her works in an article in the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, calling them "disorders of bad taste." Although devastated by the criticism, Anita received support from artists such as Oswald de Andrade, Menotti Del Picchia, and Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, which motivated her to pursue her artistic path.

In 1915, Anita returned to the United States, where she studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Independent School of Art. There, she encountered an even more experimental and free-spirited art form. It was during this period that she produced some of her most iconic works, such as "The Yellow Man" and "Woman with Green Hair." Her intense and emotional approach to human psychology stood out on the international art scene.

Modern Art Week and the Consolidation of Modernism

In 1922, Anita was a central figure in Modern Art Week, held at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo. During this event, which marked the beginning of the modernist movement in Brazil, she presented 22 works, solidifying her position as one of the pioneers of Brazilian modernism. Alongside artists such as Tarsila do Amaral, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, and Menotti Del Picchia, she helped transform the Brazilian art scene.

After Modern Art Week, Anita traveled to Paris, where she lived for several years. There, she encountered the most avant-garde artistic movements of the time and continued to develop her technique and artistic vision. During this period, she met great names in modern painting, such as Maurice Denis, Henri Matisse, and Fernand Léger. Her time in Paris was crucial to her evolution as an artist and the solidification of her unique style.

Return to Brazil and Final Phase

Anita returned to Brazil in 1928, when the artistic landscape had already been transformed by modernism. She continued to work and exhibit her work, but also dedicated herself to teaching art. She taught at several institutions, including Mackenzie College and the Escola Normal Americana, in addition to maintaining her own studio in São Paulo.

In 1932, Anita gradually moved away from the city's artistic center, preferring a quieter lifestyle away from the pressures of the market and criticism. In the following years, she dedicated herself to various projects, such as illustrating the book "Cafundó da Infância" (Childhood's Cafundó), by Carlos Lébeis, in 1936. During the 1940s, Anita continued to work and exhibit her work, although her style became more introspective.

The first major retrospective of her career was held in 1949 at the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), and in 1951, she participated in the 1st São Paulo International Biennial, solidifying her importance on the international art scene.

Posthumous Recognition

Despite her constant struggle against misunderstanding of her art, Anita Malfatti managed to see growing recognition for her work towards the end of her life. She died on November 6, 1964, at the age of 74, in São Paulo. Her legacy, however, would only be widely recognized after her death, when the importance of her contribution to modern Brazilian art was definitively consolidated.

Today, Anita Malfatti is remembered not only as one of the pioneers of modernism, but as an artist who, even in the face of adversity and the cultural conservatism of her time, never stopped fighting for recognition for her art. Her work continues to inspire generations of artists and admirers of modern art, and her career is an example of courage, resilience, and innovation.

In the last years of her life, Anita lived a more secluded life, far from the hustle and bustle of the art scene. However, her contribution to Brazilian modernism was never forgotten. She died in 1964 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in São Paulo.

Criticism

Paulo Mendes de Almeida

The 1917 Exhibition as a Founding Milestone

"With Anita Malfatti, the most historically important figure of the modernist movement disappeared. It is a well-known fact, recorded in so many pronouncements, that her 1917 exhibition constituted the opening of a passionate debate, until then unknown in the country, between the old aesthetic concepts and the new trends, already victorious in the great international artistic centers. [...] We call it an 'insurrectionary exhibition'."
Source: ALMEIDA, Paulo Mendes de. Mario de Andrade and the "sensitive of Brazil". In: _______. From Anita to the museum. São Paulo: Perspective: Diameters of Enterprises, 1976. chap. 2, p. 17.

Monteiro Lobato

Negative Criticism of Modern Aesthetics

"This artist possesses a vigorous, uncommon talent. [...] However, seduced by the theories of what she calls modern art, she penetrated the realms of a highly debatable impressionism (sic) [...] futurism, cubism, impressionism, and tutti quanti are nothing more than so many branches of caricatural art."
Source: LOBATO, Monteiro. [Regarding the Malfatti exhibition]. Apud BATISTA, Marta Rossetti. Anita Malfatti and the Beginning of Modern Art in Brazil: Life and Work. São Paulo, 1980. v. 1. p. 165.

Oswald de Andrade

Defense of Originality and Rupture

"Possessing a high awareness of what she does [...] the vibrant artist was not afraid to raise the most irritated opinions with her fifty works [...] Her art is the negation of copying, the abhorrence of oleographies."
Source: ANDRADE, Oswald. [The Anita Malfatti Exhibition]. Apud BATISTA, Marta Rossetti. Anita Malfatti and the Beginning of Modern Art in Brazil: Life and Work. São Paulo, 1980. v. 1. p. 175. (Published in Jornal do Commércio, January 11, 1918)

Menotti del Picchia

Revision of opinion and recognition of boldness

"Regarding Anita Malfatti, I fell into the trap of her style [Lobato] and [...] judged, using Lobato's criteria [...] Thousands of Paulistas joined me [...] They judged this singular woman [...] who, if she had no other merit, would have been to have broken [...] our drowsiness of latecomers."
Source: PICCHIA, Menotti. Apud BATISTA, Marta Rossetti. Anita Malfatti and the Beginning of Modern Art in Brazil: Life and Work. São Paulo, 1980. v. 1. p. 213. (Published in Correio Paulistano, November 1920)

Marta Rossetti Batista

On Pioneering and Isolation

"Anita Malfatti preceded, by several years, the first avant-garde group of Brazilian modernists [...] The premature and isolated emergence of the Brazilian expressionist contributed to its destructuring [...]"
Source: BATISTA, Marta Rossetti. Anita Malfatti and the Beginning of Modern Art in Brazil: Life and Work. São Paulo, 1980. V. 1, p. 255.

On the Impact of the Scandal and Ostracism

"After the exhibition, Anita withdrew. She went home and disappeared, wounded [...] 'Then the weight of ostracism began. All my work was cut off [...]' [...] She learned that they could not encourage, understand, or even accept 'those Dantesque things' [...]"
Source: Idem, p. 196.

Tadeu Chiarelli

Critical Reflection on the Return to Order and Aesthetic Maturation

"As a result of a more common phenomenon [...] several artists of the international avant-garde underwent a process of recovering the values ​​of art prior to the aesthetic experiments of the early years of the 20th century. [...]
Anita Malfatti, in her long process of returning to a supposed perennial order of art, finds in these drawings one of the highest points of her work."
Source: CHIARELLI, Tadeu. Brazilian International Art. São Paulo: Lemos, 1999. p. 165–167.

Testimonials

Anita Malfatti

Discovering Color and Light in Modern Painting

"When I arrived in Europe, I saw painting for the first time. When I visited the museums, I was stunned. I began to want to discover how the great saints of the Italian schools differed from the little saints of the schools. I was as enchanted by both. I was unhappy because the emotion was not one of amazement, but of disturbance and infinite exhaustion in the face of the unknown.
So I spent weeks returning daily to the Dresden Museum. In Berlin, I continued my search and began to draw. I drew for six months, day and night.
One fine day, I went with a colleague to see a large exhibition of modern painting. The paintings were large. They used kilos of paint and all the colors. A formidable play. A confusion, a rapture, every accident of form painted with all the colors.
The artist had not taken the time to mix colors, which for me was a revelation and my first discovery. I thought, the artist is right. Sunlight is composed of three primary colors and four derivatives. Objects become visible only when they emerge from the shadows, that is, when enveloped in light. Everything is the result of the light that illuminates them, participating in all colors. I began to see everything illuminated by all colors. Nothing in this world is colorless or without light. I sought out the man of all colors, Lovis Corinth, and within a week I began working in this professor's class. I immediately bought a bunch of paints, and the party began. I continued to fear the great painting as one fears an integral calculus. Source: MALFATTI, Anita. Apud BATISTA, Marta Rossetti; LOPEZ, Telé Ancona; LIMA, Yvone Soares de (Orgs.). Brazil: 1st modernist period 1917/25: documentation. São Paulo: IEB/USP, 1972. p. 41.

Collections

Artistic-Cultural Collection of the Government Palaces of the State of São Paulo. - São Paulo SP
Itaú Bank S.A. Collection - São Paulo SP
Picture Gallery of the State of São Paulo/Brazil. - São Paulo SP
Guilherme de Almeida House - São Paulo SP
Visual Arts Collection of the Institute of Brazilian Studies - IEB/USP - São Paulo SP
Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection - MAM/RJ - Rio de Janeiro RJ
University of São Paulo Contemporary Art Collection - MAC/USP - São Paulo SP
Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art Collection - MAM/RJ - Rio de Janeiro RJ
Museum of Brazilian Art - MAB/Faap - São Paulo SP
São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Art Museum - MASP - São Paulo SP
National Museum of Fine Arts - MNBA - Rio de Janeiro RJ

Solo Exhibitions

1914 - São Paulo SP - First Solo Exhibition, at Mappin Stores
1917 - São Paulo SP - Exhibition of Modern Painting by Anita Malfatti, at 111 Líbero Badaró Street
1920 - São Paulo SP - Solo Exhibition, at the Commercial Club
1921 - Santos SP - Solo Exhibition, in the lobby of the Politeama Rio Branco
1926 - Paris (France) - Solo Exhibition, at Galerie André
1929 - São Paulo SP - Solo Exhibition, at 20 Líbero Badaró Street - mezzanine
1935 - São Paulo SP - Solo Exhibition, at the Palácio das Arcadas
1937 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo Exhibition, at the Palace Hotel
1938 - São Paulo SP - Solo Exhibition, at the Art and Decoration Exhibition
1938 - São Paulo SP - Solo Exhibition, at 219 Ceará Street (Atelier da Artist)
1945 - São Paulo SP - Solo show, at IAB/SP
1949 - São Paulo SP - Anita Malfatti: retrospective, at Masp
1950 - São Paulo SP - Solo show, at Rua Ceará, 219 (Artist's Studio)
1955 - São Paulo SP - Solo show, at Masp
1957 - São Paulo SP - Commemorative Exhibition of the Fortieth Anniversary of the 1917 Exhibition, at Clubinho
1963 - São Paulo SP - Solo show, at the House of the Plastic Artist

Collective Exhibitions

1917 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 24th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba
1917 - São Paulo, SP - Saci Exhibition, at Rua Líbero Badaró, No. 111
1918 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 25th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba
1919 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 26th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba
1922 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 29th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba
1922 - São Paulo, SP - 1st General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at the Palace of Industries
1922 - São Paulo, SP - Modern Art Week, at the Municipal Theater
1923 - Paris (France) - Exhibition of Brazilian Artists, at the Maison de L'Amérique Latine
1924 - Paris (France) - 17th Autumn Salon, at the Grand Palais
1924 - Paris (France) - Exposition d'Art Latin Américain, at the Musée Galleria
1925 - Paris (France) - 18th Autumn Salon, at the Grand Palais
1926 - Paris (France) - 19th Autumn Salon, at the Palais de Bois
1926 - Paris (France) - 37th Exposition Societé des Artistes Indépendants, at the Palais de Bois
1926 - Paris (France) - Salon du Franc, at the Musée Galleria
1927 - Paris (France) - 20th Autumn Salon, at the Grand Palais
1927 - Paris (France) - 38th Exposition Societé des Independent Artists, at the Grand Palais 1927 - Paris (France) - 5th Salon des Tuileries, at the Palais de Bois 1928 - Paris (France) - 39th Exposition Societé des Artistes Indépendants, at the Grand Palais 1930 - New York (United States) - International Art Center, at the Nicholas Roerich Museum 1930 - New York (United States) - The First Representative Collection of Paintings by Brazilian Artists, at the Nicholas Roerich Museum 1930 - São Paulo, SP - Exhibition of a Modernist House 1931 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Exhibition at the First Modernist House in Rio de Janeiro, on Rua Toneleros 1931 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Revolutionary Salon, at Enba 1933 - São Paulo, SP - 1st SPAM Modern Art Exhibition, at the Palacete Campinas
1934 - São Paulo SP - 1st Paulista Salon of Fine Arts, on August 11th Street
1935 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Paulista Salon of Fine Arts
1935 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Paulista Salon of Fine Arts
1936 - São Paulo SP - 4th Paulista Salon of Fine Arts
1937 - São Paulo SP - 1st Salon of the Paulista Artistic Family, at the Esplanada Hotel in São Paulo
1938 - São Paulo SP - 4th Salon of the Union of Visual Artists, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1939 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Salon of the Paulista Artistic Family, at the Automobile Club
1939 - São Paulo SP - 3rd May Salon, at the Itá Gallery
1939 - São Paulo SP - 5th Salon of the Union of Visual Artists Visual Artists, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1940 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 3rd Salon of the Paulista Artistic Family, at the Palace Hotel
1941 - São Paulo, SP - 6th Salon of the Visual Artists' Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1941 - São Paulo, SP - 1st Art Salon of the National Industries Fair, at Água Branca Park
1943 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Anti-Axis Exhibition, at the Historical and Diplomatic Museum, Itamaraty Palace
1943 - São Paulo, SP - 8th Salon of the Visual Artists' Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1943 - São Paulo, SP - Anti-Axis Exhibition, at the Prestes Maia Gallery 1944 - Belo Horizonte, MG - Modern Art Exhibition, at the Mariana Building 1944 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Visual Arts Exhibition, at the ABI 1944 - São Paulo, SP - 9th Salon of the Visual Artists Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery 1944 - São Paulo, SP - Anita Malfati, Clovis Graciano, Hilde Weber, Nelson Nóbrega, Francisco Rebolo, at the Jaraguá Gallery 1944 - São Paulo, SP - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian-North American Painting, at the Prestes Maia Gallery 1945 - São Paulo, SP - Anita Malfati, Virgínia Artigas, Clovis Graciano, Mick Carnicelli, Oswald de Andrade Filho, José Pancetti, Carlos Prado, Francisco Rebolo, Quirino da Silva, Alfredo Volpi, Mario Zanini, at the Itapetininga Gallery
1946 - São Paulo, SP - 10th Salon of the Visual Artists Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1946 - São Paulo, SP - 12th São Paulo Salon of Fine Arts, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1946 - São Paulo, SP - Exhibition of Original Drawings by São Paulo Artists, at the Alceu Amoroso Lima Municipal Library
1946 - São Paulo, SP - Posthumous Tribute to Mário de Andrade, at the Itá Gallery
1948 - São Paulo, SP - Exhibition of Visual Arts by Female Painters and Sculptors of São Paulo, at the Municipal Theater
1949 - Salvador, BA - 1st Bahia Salon of Fine Arts, at the Bahia Hotel
1951 - São Paulo, SP - 1st São Paulo International Biennial, at the Pavilion Trianon
1951 - São Paulo SP - 1st São Paulo Modern Art Salon, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1952 - Santiago (Chile) - Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Engravings of Brazil, at the University of Chile. Museum of Contemporary Art 1952 - São Paulo, SP - Commemorative Exhibition of the Modern Art Week of 22, at MAM/SP 1954 - São Paulo, SP - Contemporary Art: exhibition of the collection of the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, at MAM/SP 1955 - Atibaia, SP - 1st Official Painting Exhibition, at the Atibaiense Recreational Club 1955 - São Paulo, SP - 4th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery 1957 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Modern Art in Brazil, at the Museum of Modern Art 1957 - Lima, Peru - Modern Art in Brazil, at the Lima Museum of Art 1957 - Rosario, Argentina - Modern Art in Brazil, at the Juan B. Castagnino
1957 - Santiago (Chile) - Modern Art in Brazil, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
1960 - São Paulo SP - Women's Contribution to the Country's Visual Arts, at MAM/SP
1962 - São Paulo SP - Commemorative Exhibition of the Modern Art Week of 22, at the Petite Galerie
1962 - São Paulo SP - Selection of Brazilian Art Works from the Ernesto Wolf Collection, at MAM/SP
1963 - Campinas SP - Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, at the Carlos Gomes Museum
1963 - São Paulo SP - 7th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Bienal Foundation
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Nude in Contemporary Art, at the Ibeu Copacabana Gallery
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Small Size Exhibition, at the Bonino Gallery

Posthumous Exhibitions

1965 - São Paulo, SP - 14th São Paulo Modern Art Salon, at the Prestes Maia Gallery - posthumous tribute
1966 - Austin (United States) - Art of Latin America since Independence, at The University of Texas at Austin. Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
1966 - New Haven (United States) - Art of Latin America since Independence, at the Yale University Art Gallery
1966 - São Paulo SP - Half a Century of Art Nouveau, at MAC/USP
1971 - São Paulo SP - 11th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Biennial Foundation
1971 - São Paulo SP - Anita Malfatti: retrospective, at MAB-Faap
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 50 Years of Brazilian Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the Ibeu Copacabana Gallery
1972 - São Paulo SP - Anita Malfatti: retrospective, at the Novo Mundo Arts Center
1972 - São Paulo SP - Week of 22: antecedents and consequences, at Masp
1973 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective, at MAC/USP
1974 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective, at Masp
1974 - São Paulo SP - Time of the Modernists, at Masp
1975 - São Paulo SP - 13th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Bienal Foundation
1975 - São Paulo SP - Modernism from 1917 to 1930, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1975 - São Paulo SP - The Theme is Woman, at Azulão Galeria
1975 - São Paulo SP - SPAM and CAM, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1976 - Paris (France) - Brazil: 20th-Century Artists, at Artcurial
1976 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Art in the 20th Century: Paths and Trends, at Galeria Arte Global
1976 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Art: Figures and Movements, at Galeria Arte Global
1976 - São Paulo SP - The Salons: of the Paulista Artistic Family, of Maio and of the Union of Visual Artists of São Paulo, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1977 - São Paulo SP - Anita Malfatti: retrospective, at MAC/USP
1978 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective, at the Paulo Figueiredo Art Gallery
1978 - São Paulo SP - Landscape in the Pinacoteca Collection: From the 19th Century to the 1940s, at the State Pinacoteca
1980 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Eight Years of Brazilian Art, at Banco Itaú
1980 - Santiago (Chile) - 20 Brazilian Painters, at the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts
1982 - Bauru SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art
1982 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the José de Azeredo Perdigão Center for Modern Art
1982 - London (England) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the Barbican Art Gallery
1982 - Marília SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art
1982 - São Paulo SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art, at MAB-Faap
1982 - São Paulo SP - From Modernism to the Biennial, at MAM/SP
1983 - Belo Horizonte MG - 80 Years of Brazilian Art, at the Clóvis Salgado Foundation. Palace of Arts
1983 - Campinas SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art, at MACC
1983 - Curitiba PR - 80 Years of Brazilian Art, at MAC/PR
1983 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art
1983 - Santo André SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art, at Santo André City Hall
1984 - Fortaleza CE - 7th National Salon of Visual Arts
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Salon of 31, at Funarte
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 Fundação Bienal
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Portrait of Collector in his Collection, at the Banerj Art Gallery
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Six Decades of Modern Art in the Roberto Marinho Collection, at the Paço Imperial
1985 - São Paulo, SP - 100 Itaú Works, at Masp
1985 - São Paulo, SP - 18th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
1985 - São Paulo, SP - SPAM: The Story of a Dream, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1985 - São Paulo, SP - Trends in Artist's Books in Brazil, at CCSP
1986 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Seven Decades of Italian Presence in Brazilian Art, at the Paço Imperial
1986 - São Paulo, SP - Anita Malfatti: retrospective, at the Renato Magalhães Gouvêa Art Office
1986 - São Paulo, SP - Six Times: 80 Years, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
1987 - Paris (France) - Modernity: Brazilian Art of the 20th Century, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1987 - São Paulo SP - Brazil Painted by National and Foreign Masters: 18th-20th Centuries, at Masp
1988 - São Paulo SP - Brasiliana: Man and Land, at the State Art Gallery
1988 - São Paulo SP - MAC 25 Years: Highlights from the Initial Collection, at MAC/USP
1988 - São Paulo SP - Modernity: 20th-Century Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1989 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Six Decades of Brazilian Modern Art: Roberto Marinho Collection, at the José de Azeredo Perdigão Center of Modern Art
1989 - São Paulo SP - Anita Malfatti: Retrospective, at MAC/USP
1989 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Painting, 19th and 20th Centuries: Works from the Itaú Bank Collection, at Itaugaleria
1989 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective in celebration of the artist's birth centenary, at the IEB/USP
1990 - São Paulo SP - The Art Collection of the Municipality of São Paulo, at Masp
1990 - São Paulo SP - Anita and Oswald Return to the Park, at the Pro Modernist Park Association
1991 - São Paulo SP - Desire in the Academy: 1847-1916, at the State Art Gallery
1991 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective, at the José Duarte Aguiar and Ricardo Camargo Art Space
1992 - Poços de Caldas MG - Brazilian Modern Art: collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, at the Casa da Cultura
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Nature: four centuries of art in Brazil, at the CCBB
1992 - São Paulo SP - The Formation of the Modernist Gaze, at MAC/USP
1992 - São Paulo SP - Sérgio's Perspective on Brazilian Art: Drawings and Paintings, at the Mário de Andrade Municipal Library
1992 - Zurich (Switzerland) - Brasilien: entdeckung und self-deckung, at the Kunsthaus Zürich
1993 - Poços de Caldas MG - Mário de Andrade Collection: Modernism in 50 Works on Paper, at the Casa de Cultura
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazil: 100 Years of Modern Art, at the MNBA
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Emblems of the Body: The Nude in Modern Brazilian Art, at the CCBB
1993 - São Paulo SP - 100 Masterpieces from the Mário de Andrade Collection: painting and sculpture, at the IEB/USP
1993 - São Paulo SP - Modern Drawing in Brazil: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the Sesi Art Gallery
1993 - São Paulo SP - Modernism at the Museum of Brazilian Art: painting, at MAB-Faap
1994 - Poços de Caldas MG - Unibanco Collection: exhibition commemorating Unibanco's 70th anniversary, at the Casa da Cultura
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Modern Drawing in Brazil: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at MAM/RJ
1994 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Modern Art: a selection from the Roberto Marinho Collection, at Masp
1994 - São Paulo SP - 20th Century Brazil Biennial, at the Foundation Biennial
1994 - São Paulo SP - Poetics of Resistance: Aspects of Brazilian Engraving, at the Sesi Art Gallery
1995 - São Paulo SP - Modernism in Paris in the 1920s: Experiences and Coexistences, at MAC/USP
1995 - São Paulo SP - Nudes: Drawings by Anita Malfatti, at the Sinduscon Gallery
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Anita Malfatti and Her Time, at CCBB
1996 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Art: 50 Years of History in the MAC/USP Collection: 1920 - 1970, at MAC/USP
1996 - São Paulo SP - Women Artists in the MAC Collection, at MAC/USP
1997 - Porto Alegre RS - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
1997 - Porto Alegre RS - Exhibition Parallel, at the Caixa Econômica Federal Museum
1997 - São Paulo SP - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
1997 - São Paulo SP - Great Names of Brazilian Painting, at the Jo Slaviero Art Gallery
1997 - São Paulo SP - Mário de Andrade and the Modernist Group, at the Aúthos Paganos Cultural and Study Center
1997 - São Paulo SP - Masters of Expressionism in Brazil, at Masp
1997 - São Paulo SP - The Revealing Touch: Portraits and Self-Portraits, at MAC/USP
1998 - Brasília DF - Brazilian Like Neither Me, Like Neither Who?, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1998 - Curitiba PR - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex Caixa
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Negotiated Images: portraits of the Brazilian elite, at the CCBB
1998 - São Paulo SP - 24th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
1998 - São Paulo SP - Highlights from the Unibanco Collection, at the Moreira Salles Institute
1998 - São Paulo SP - The Collector, at MAM/SP
1998 - São Paulo SP - The Modern and the Contemporary in Brazilian Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection - MAM/RJ, at Masp
1999 - Salvador BA - 60 Years of Brazilian Art, at the Caixa Econômica Federal Cultural Space
1999 - São Paulo SP - The Feminine Figure in the MAB Collection, at MAB-Faap
1999 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian like neither I, nor Whom?, at MAB-Faap. Cultural Salon
1999 - São Paulo SP - Brazil in the Century of Art, at the Sesi Art Gallery
1999 - São Paulo SP - On Paper, Graphite and Ink, at Banco Cidade
2000 - Belém PA - Arte Pará 2000, at the Museum of Sacred Art
2000 - Brasília DF - Brazil-Europe Exhibition: Encounters in the 20th Century, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brazil-brazilians: remarkable and amazing things. Modernist Perspectives, at the Chiado Museum
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - 20th Century: Art from Brazil, at the José de Azeredo Perdigão Center for Modern Art
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - When Brazil was Modern: Visual Arts in Rio de Janeiro from 1905 to 1960, at the Paço Imperial
2000 - São Paulo SP - 7th Art and Antiques Salon, at A Hebraica
2000 - São Paulo SP - The Female Figure in the MAB Collection, at MAB-Faap
2000 - São Paulo SP - Ars Erótica: Sex and Eroticism in Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brazil + 500 Rediscovery Exhibition, at the Biennial Foundation
2000 - São Paulo SP - Investigations. Brazilian Engraving, at Itaú Cultural
2000 - São Paulo SP - The Role of Art, at the Sesi Art Gallery
2000 - São Paulo SP - A Certain Point of View: Pietro Maria Bardi 100 Years, at the State Art Gallery
2000 - Valencia (Spain) - From Anthropophagy to Brasilia: Brazil 1920-1950, at IVAM. Julio Gonzáles Center
2001 - New York (United States) - Brazil: Body and Soul, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
2001 - Penápolis SP - Investigations. Brazilian Engraving, at the Itaú Cultural Gallery
2001 - Brasília DF - Investigations. Brazilian Engraving, at the Itaú Cultural Gallery
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Watercolor, at the Light Cultural Center
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Modern Collections: Hecilda and Sergio Fadel at Chácara do Céu, at the Castro Maya Museums. Chácara do Céu Museum
2001 - São Paulo SP - 30 Masters of Painting in Brazil, at Masp
2001 - São Paulo SP - Self-Portrait: The Artist's Mirror, at the Sesi Art Gallery
2001 - São Paulo SP - Aldo Franco Collection, at the State Art Gallery
2001 - São Paulo SP - Museum of Brazilian Art: 40 years, at MAB-Faap
2001 - São Paulo SP - Trajectory of Light in Brazilian Art, at Itaú Cultural
2001 - São Paulo SP - A Journey with Anita. The Feast of Form and Color, at MAB-Faap
2002 - Brasília DF - JK - An Aesthetic Adventure, at Centro Cultural da Caixa
2002 - Niterói RJ - Brazilian Art on Paper: 19th and 20th Centuries, at Solar do Jambeiro
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Archipelagos: The Plural Universe of MAM, at MAM/RJ
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection: From the Restlessness of the Modern to the Autonomy of Language, at CCBB
2002 - São Paulo SP - 22 and the Idea of ​​the Modern, at MAC/USP
2002 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection: From the Restlessness of the Modern to the Autonomy of Language, at CCBB
2002 - São Paulo SP - From Anthropophagy to Brasília: Brazil 1920-1950, at MAB-Faap
2002 - São Paulo SP - Modernism: from the Week of 22 to the art section of Sérgio Milliet, at CCSP
2003 - Brasília, DF - Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection: from the restlessness of the modern to the autonomy of language, at the CCBB
2003 - Ribeirão Preto, SP - The 1920s: Emerging Modernity, at the Pedro Manuel-Gismondi Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto
2003 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Autonomy of Drawing, at MAM/RJ
2003 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Treasures of the Caixa: Brazilian modern art in the Caixa collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
2003 - São Paulo, SP - Arteconhecimento: 70 Years of USP, at MAC/USP
2003 - São Paulo, SP - MAC USP 40 Years: Contemporary Interfaces, at MAC/USP
2003 - São Paulo, SP - Painters of the Coast of São Paulo, at Sociarte
2003 - São Paulo, SP - Portraits, at MAB-Faap
2004 - Brasília DF - JK's Modernist Perspective, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Itamaraty Palace
2004 - Madrid (Spain) - Arco/2004, at the Juan Carlos I Fair Park
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Iconic Face of Brazilian Art, at MAM/RJ
2004 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
2004 - São Paulo SP - Paper Cabinet, at CCSP
2004 - São Paulo SP - Women Painters, at the State Art Gallery
2004 - São Paulo SP - The Price of Seduction: From Corsets to Silicone, at Itaú Cultural
2004 - São Paulo SP - Masterpieces by Anita Malfatti, at the BM&F Cultural Space
2005 - Fortaleza CE - Brazilian Art: in the public and private collections of Ceará, at the Unifor Cultural Space
2005 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Masterpieces of Brazilian Art, at the Rio Design Barra Exhibition Center
2005 - São Paulo SP - 100 Years of the Pinacoteca: the formation of a collection, at the Sesi Art Gallery
2005 - São Paulo SP - Anita Malfatti Engraver - A Recovery, at the IE/USP
2005 - São Paulo SP - Erotica: the senses in art, at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center
2005 - São Paulo SP - Faces of Mário, at the IEB/USP
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Erotica: the senses in art, at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Modern Brazilian Drawing 1917-1950, at the Museum of Modern Art
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the Museum of Modern Art
2006 - São Paulo SP - JK's Modernist Gaze, at MAB-FAAP
2006 - São Paulo SP - Brasiliana Masp: contemporary modern, at the São Paulo Museum of Art
2006 - São Paulo SP - Radical Maneuvers, at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center
2006 - São Paulo SP - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the State Art Gallery
2007 - Salvador BA - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia
2007 - São Paulo SP - Anita Malfatti Engraver - A Recovery, at Dona Yayá's House
2007 - São Paulo SP - Brazil, Several Times Modern, at Espaço Arte MorumbiShopping
2008 - São Paulo SP - Strategies for Entering and Exiting Modernity in the Collection Itaú Moderno, at the São Paulo Museum of Art
2008 - São Paulo SP - BM&F BOVESPA Collection, at the BM&F Bovespa Cultural Space
2008 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Brazil, at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center
2008 - São Paulo SP - Ties of the Gaze, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute
2008 - São Paulo SP - MAM 60, at Oca
2009 - São Paulo SP - The Sacred Art of Anita Malfatti, at the Museum of Sacred Art
2009 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Brazil, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center
2009 - São Paulo SP - Recent in the Collection, Museum of Brazilian Art
2009 - São Paulo SP - Nudes, Fortes Vilaça Gallery
2009 - São Paulo SP - Art in France 1860-1960: Realism, São Paulo Museum of Art
2009 - São Paulo SP - A Critical Look: Award-Winning Art from ABCA and the Artistic Collection of the Palaces, Palácio dos Bandeirantes
2009 - São Paulo SP - Treasures from the Roberto Marinho Collection, BM&F Bovespa Cultural Space
2009 - São Paulo SP - Modernos de Sempre, at Dan Galeria
2010 - São Paulo SP - Genealogies of the Contemporary, Museum of Modern Art
2010 - São Paulo SP - 6th sp-arte, Biennial Foundation
2010 - Brasília DF - Anita Malfatti: 120th Anniversary of Her Birth, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center
2010 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Anita Malfatti: 120th Anniversary of Her Birth, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center
2010 - São Paulo SP - Revealed Memories, Museum of Brazilian Art
2010 - São Paulo SP - Brazilianness and Modernism, Dan Galeria
2011 - Brasília DF - Women Artists and Brazilians - Production of the Century 20, Planalto Palace
2011 - Campos do Jordão SP - Art and Culture in the Paraíba Valley, at the Boa Vista Palace
2011 - Curitiba PR - Anita Malfatti, at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum
2011 - São Paulo SP - Art in Brazil: A History at the São Paulo Art Gallery, at the State Art Gallery
2011 - São Paulo SP - Marks of Expressionism, at MAB-FAAP
2011 - São Paulo SP - Modernisms in Brazil, at MAC/USP
2011 - São Paulo SP - 7th sp-arte, at the Biennial Foundation
2012 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Amazon, Cycles of Modernity, at CCBB
2013 - São Paulo SP - Experience] and [Transformation, at MAB-FAAP
2013 - São Paulo SP - The Now, The Before: a summary of the MAC USP collection, at the AC/USP Museum
2013 - Fortaleza CE - Trajectories: Brazilian Art in the Edson Queiroz Foundation Collection - Unifor 40 Years, at the Unifor Cultural Space (Fortaleza, CE)