Regina Vater is a Brazilian-born American

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best known for her installation artwork inspired by Brazilian and African-Brazilian mythologies. In the 1960s, she designed the first album cover for the

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and

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. In 1970, she had her first installation, "Magi(o)cean". She has conducted numerous interviews with

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, 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." In 1980, she was awarded a

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. 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's work is known for its feminist themes and questions regarding culture and identity.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

* Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, France (1967) *

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, Venice, Italy (1976) *

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, Brazil (1969, 1976) * Texas Triennial (1988) * P.S.1 Museum, New York, US (1989) * Transcontinental: Nine Latin American Artists, Birmingham, England (1990) * Koninklijk National Royal Museum, Antwerp, The Netherlands (1992) * Brazilian Visual Poetry, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, US (2002)

Permanent collections

(Source: Artspace) * National Library of France, Paris, France * The Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * The Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil * The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, San Antonio, Texas * The Blanton Museum of the University of Texas, Austin, Texas * The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Visual Poetry Archives, Miami, Florida

References

External links

Profile on Artspace2004 interview by Cary Cordova for the Archives of American Art, in her home in Austin"El Jardin" video"A Árvore de mel" video
* Trajetórias de Regina Vater - dissertação PGEHA-USP Talita Trizol

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vater, Regina 1943 births Living people Artists from Austin, Texas American multimedia artists American women installation artists American installation artists American women video artists American video artists Brazilian emigrants to the United States Brazilian contemporary artists 21st-century American women photographers 21st-century American photographers Visual poets