Works
Muniz specializes in remaking famous artworks with materials other than paint, and then photographing them. Muniz's Olympia, a Cibachrome print of his chocolate-syrup rendering of Edouard Manet's 1863 oil painting of the same title is an example of his work and is in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Muniz makes photographs that look like something other than what they actually show, for example, photographing cotton to look like clouds.
Muniz has had solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The International Center of Photography, Paco Imperial in Rio, MACRO in Rome among others. His work is in the collections of the MOMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Daros Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Pãulo, Brazil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, The Tate Gallery, London, UK, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and The Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City.
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