Mira Schendel is one of the most significant artists to emerge from Latin America during the twentieth century. Born in Switzerland in 1919, Schendel emigrated to Brazil from Europe in 1949, ultimately settling in São Paulo in 1953, where she swiftly occupied a leading place in the country’s vibrant post-war artistic scene.
Traversing the realms of painting, drawing and sculpture, while deriving inspiration from a constellation of sources—as varied as Concrete Poetry, semiotics, phenomenology, the epic tradition, Zen Buddhism, and aspects of Eastern and Western philosophy—Schendel’s prolific body of works provoked a radically new lexicon of avant-gardist practice in Brazil.
The late Brazilian poet, Haroldo de Campos, has described the spirit of her work as ‘an art of voids’, wherein, ‘the utmost redundance begins to produce original information; an art of words and quasi-words where the graphic form veils and unveils, seals and unseals… a semiotic art of icons, indexes, symbols which print on the blank of the page their luminous foam.’
Born in Zurich to a family of Jewish origin, Schendel was baptized and raised as a Catholic in Italy. In 1938, while studying philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan, Schendel was persecuted for her family’s Jewish heritage. Forced to relinquish her studies and citizenship, Schendel sought asylum in Yugoslavia before passing through Switzerland and Austria (with the initial intent of establishing herself in Sophia, Bulgaria), and ultimately settling in Brazil.
This history is vital to the spiritual sensibility underlying the poetics of Schendel’s work, as well as to her particular investigations of language and its material embodiments.
Although Schendel received considerable recognition during her lifetime, since her death in 1988, her work has continued to achieve national and international visibility: cementing her status as one of the most important artistic voices of her time.
Mira Schendel
Biography
Print BiographySelected Solo Exhibitions
Fundação de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, 'Mira Schendel', Porto, Portugal (Travelling Exhibition)
Hauser & Wirth, 'Mira Schendel', New York NY
Neues Museum Nürnberg, 'Mira Schendel – Poesie in Letraset', Nuremberg, Germany
Instituto Moreira Salles, 'Mira Schendel. Pintora', São Paulo, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Caixa Cultural São Paulo, 'Através: Mira Schendel', São Paulo, Brazil
Fundação Iberê Camargo, 'Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel', Porto Alegre, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Galeria Millan, 'Monotipias', São Paulo, Brazil
Stephen Friedman Gallery, 'Monotypes and Other Works', London, England
Museu Rufino Tamayo, 'Mira Schendel', Cidade do México, México
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, 'Mira Schendel – Experiências em Papel. Coleção Theon Spanadis', São Paulo, Brazil
Espaço Fogo Paulista, 'Mira Schendel. Cadernos, Gravuras e Xerox', São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, 'Mira Schendel,' São Paulo, Brazil
FUNARTE Galeria Sergio Milliet, 'Mira Schendel', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
'Sala Mira Schendel Livraria Letrativa', 'I Ching', São Paulo, Brazil
Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, 'Mira Schendel. Obras Recentes', São Paulo, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Paulo Figueiredo Galeria de Arte, 'Mira Schendel. Obras Recentes', São Paulo, Brazil
Galeria Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporânea, 'Mira Schendel,' Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Galeria Usina Arte Contemporânea, 'Mira Schendel', Vitória, Brazil
Galeria de Arte da Universidade Federal, 'Mira Schendel. Pinturas Recentes', Niterói, Brazil
Paulo Figueiredo Galeria de Arte, 'Mira Schendel. Pinturas Recentes', São Paulo, Brazil
Galeria Luisa Strina, 'Mira Schendel', São Paulo, Brazil
G.B Gravura Brazileira, 'Mira Schendel', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gabinete de Artes Gráficas, 'Mira Schendel. Desenhos de 1974/75: Datiloscritos – Mandalas – Paisagens', São Paulo, Brazil
Gabinete Luiz Buarque de Hollanda & Paulo Bittencourt, 'Mira Schendel', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gromholt Galleri, 'Mira Schendel', Oslo, Norway
Signals London Gallery, ' Mira Shendel', London, England
Galeria Buchholtz, ' Desenhos de Mira Schendel', Lisbon, Portugal
Galeria Aremar, 'Mira. Pinturas', Campinas, Brazil
Selected Group Exhibitions
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 'Brasilidade: Pós Modernismo', Belo Horizonte, Brazil (travelling exhibition)
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 'Brasilidade: Pós Modernismo', Brasilia, Brazil (travelling exhibition)
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 'Brasilidade: Pós Modernismo', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (travelling exhibition)
Bergamin & Gomide, 'Nosso Norte é o Sul / Our North is the South', Sao Paolo, Brazil
Dallas Museum of Art, 'Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia', Dallas TX
Almine Rech, ‘Lineup’, cur. Alex Bacon, New York NY (forthcoming)
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift’, New York NY
Tara Donovan, Eva Hesse, Kathleen Jacobs, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Mira Schendel’, New York NY
MAC Niterói, ‘Anna Bella & Lygia & Mira & Wanda’, Niterói, RJ Brazil
Victoria Miro, ‘Surface Work’, London UK
Esther Schipper, ‘Affinadas Electivas’, Berlin, Germany
Moderna Museet, ‘Concrete Matters’, Stockholm, Sweden
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, 'The Other Transatlantic. Kinetic & Op Art in Central & Eastern Europe and Latin America', Moscow, Russia
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 'A Tale of Two Worlds: A Dialogue between the MMK Collection and the History of Experimental Latin American Art. 1940s – 1980s', Buenos Aires, Argentina (Travelling Exhibition)
The Met Breuer, ‘Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950 – 1980’, New York NY
Museum für Moderne Kunst, 'A Tale of Two Worlds: A Dialogue between the MMK Collection and the History of Experimental Latin American Art. 1940s – 1980s', Frankfurt, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 'The Other Transatlantic. Kinetic & Op Art in Central & Eastern Europe and Latin America', Warsaw, Poland (Traveling Exhibition)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ‘Mario Pedrosa: On the Affective Nature of Form’, Madrid, Spain
Zentrum Paul Klee, 'The Revolution is dead. Long live the Revolution!', Bern, Switzerland
The Sunday Painter, 'Assorted Paper', London, England
Hauser & Wirth, 'Serialities', New York NY
Haus der Kunst, 'Postwar: Kunst zwischen Pazifik und Atlantik, 1945 – 1965', Munich, Germany
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 'Artistas do Moderno, a invenção da mulher', São Paulo, Brazil
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, 'Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016', Los Angeles CA
Museo Nacional de Arte, 'Antropofagía y modernidad. Arte Moderno Brasileño en la Colección Fadel', Mexico City, Mexico
Paul Kasmin Gallery, 'Grapheme: Text as Image', New York NY
Luhring Augustine, 'Empty House Casa Vazia', New York NY
The Fruitmarket Gallery, 'Possibilities of the Object: Experiments in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art', Edinburgh, Scotland
Dominique Lévy, 'Sotto Voce', London, England
CIFO Art Space, 'Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict. Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection', Miami FL
Drawing Room, 'Abstract Drawing', London, England
Hauser & Wirth, 'Sensitive Geometries. Brazil 1950s–1980s', New York NY
Stephen Friedman Gallery, ' Mira Schendel in Conversation with Max Bill, Naum Gabo, Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, Roman Opalka and Bridget Riley', London, England
Museum of Latin American Art, 'Sites of Latin American Abstraction: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection', Long Beach CA
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, 'Explorando el Sur. El Universalismo Constructivo y Otras Tendencias en América Latina', Badajoz, Spain
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 'Laços do Olhar', São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'When Lives Become Form, Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960s to the Present', Tokyo, Japan
Vancouver Art Gallery, 'WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution', Vancouver, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 'WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
National Museum of Women in the Arts, 'WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution', Washington DC (Travelling Exhibition)
MOMA Museum of Modern Art, 'New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930 – 2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions', New York NY
Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil
Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, 'Manobras Radicais', São Paulo, Brazil
The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 'Inverted Utopias: The Avant-Garde in Latin America, 1920 – 1970', Houston TX
The National Museum of Modern Art, 'Brazil: Body Nostalgia', Tokyo, Japan
Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, 'Mira Schendel, Sérgio Camargo, Willys de Castro',Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Instituto de Arte Contemporânea 'Mira Schendel, Sérgio Camargo, Willys de Castro', São Paulo, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Parque do Ibirapuera, 'Brazil + 500 – Mostra do Redescobrimento', São Paulo, Brazil
Centro Cultural São Paulo, 'Arte Conceitual e Conceitualismos: Anos 70 do Museu de Arte Contemporânea', São Paulo, Brazil
Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, 'Do Espanto ao Esquecimento: Arte do Brazil Século 20', Lisbon, Portugal
Galeria Itaú Cultural, 'São ou não Gravuras?', Brasília, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Galeria Itaú Cultural, 'São ou não Gravuras?', Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 'Heterotopias: Médio Siglo Sin-Lugar (1918 – 1968) – Versiones del Sur: Cinco Propuestas en Torno al Arte en Latino América)', Madrid, Spain
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, '80 Anos de Arte Moderna no Brazil', São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'The Experimental Exercise of Freedom: Lygia Clark, Gego, Mathias Goeritz, Hélio Oiticica and Mira Schendel', Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Grimes Gallery, 'Caldas, Cildo Meireles, Mira Schendel and Tunga', Santa Monica CA
Museum of Women in the Arts, 'Inside the Visible: an Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century', Washington DC (Travelling Exhibition)
Casa das Rosas, 'O Mundo de Mário Schenberg', São Paulo, Brazil
Paço Imperial, 'Influência Poética: Dez Desenhistas Contemporâneos', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Grande Galeria do Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'A linha Construindo a Forma', São Paulo, Brazil
Phoenix Art Museum, 'Latin American Women Artists 1915 – 1995', Phoenix AZ (Travelling Exhibition)
Denver Art Museum, 'Latin American Women Artists 1915 – 1995', Denver CO (Travelling Exhibition)
Center of Fine Arts, 'Latin American Women Artists 1915 – 1995', Miami FL (Travelling Exhibition)
National Museum of Women in Arts, 'Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995', Washington DC (Travelling Exhibition)
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'Livro-objeto: A Fronteira dos Vazios', São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'Entre o Desenho e a Escultura', São Paulo, Brazil
Fundação Cultural Curitiba, 'XI Mostra de Gravura da Cidade de Curitiba', Curitiba, Brazil
Galeria Nara Roesler, 'O Desenho em São Paulo – 1950-1990', São Paulo, Brazil
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 'Bienal Brazil Séc. XX', São Paulo, Brazil
Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, 'Livro-objeto: a Fronteira dos Vazios', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Fondazione Scientifica Querini Stampalia, 'Brazil. Segni d´Arte – Libri e Video 1950 – 1993', Venice, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Biblioteca Nacional Braidense, 'Brazil. Segni d´Arte – Libri e Video 1950 – 1993', Milan, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Biblioteca Nacional, 'Brazil. Segni d´Arte – Libri e Video 1950 – 1993', Florence, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Palazzo Pamphili, 'Brazil. Segni d´Arte - Libri e Video 1950 – 1993', Rome, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Galeria de Arte do SESI, 'O Desenho Moderno no Brazil, Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand', São Paulo, Brazil
Dan Galeria, 'A Arte Brazileira no Mundo: Uma Trajetória, 24 Artistas Brazileiros, 1992 – 1993', São Paulo, Brazil
Centro Municipal de Cultura, 'Mário Pedrosa: Arte, Revolução, Reflexão', Porto Alegre, Brazil
Casa da Cultura, 'Arte Moderna Brazileira', Poços de Caldas, Brazil
Estación Plaza de Armas, 'Latin American Artists of the 20th Century', Seville, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre George Pompidou, 'Latin American Artists of the 20th Century', Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunsthalle Cologne, 'Latin American Artists of the 20th Century', Cologne, Germany
MOMA – Museum of Modern Art, 'Latin American Artists of the 20th Century', New York NY
Fondation Nationale d'art Grafique et Plastique, 'Art d’Amérique Latine du XX
Siècle', Paris, France
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, 'Expressões Singulares da Arte Brazileira', São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte da Bahia, 'Expressões Singulares da Arte Brazileira', Salvador, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Museu do Estado de Pernambuco, 'Expressões Singulares da Arte Brazileira', Recife, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Palácio Itamaraty, 'Expressões Singulares da Arte Brazileira', Brasília, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, 'Expressões Singulares da Arte Brazileira', Porto Alegre, Brazil (travelling exhibtion)
Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, 'Expressões Singulares da Arte Brazileira', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Museu Municipal de Arte de Curitiba, 'Expressões Singulares da Arte Brazileira', PR, Curitiba, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, 'Mário Pedrosa: Arte, Revolução, Reflexão', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Public Library Cultural Center, 'Brazil: Crossroads of Modern', Chicago IL
Palacio de Velasquez, 'Art in Latin America: The Modern Era 1820 – 1980', Madrid, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, 'Gesto e Estrutura', São Paulo, Brazil
National Museum of Stockolm, 'Jord och Frihet: Latinamerikansk Konst 1830 – 1970', Stockholm, Sweden
20a Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Galeria Millan, '63/66 Figura e Objeto', São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, 'Palavra Imágica', São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'Panorama da Arte Brazileira. Arte sobre Papel', São Paulo, Brazil
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'Modernidade: Arte Brazileira do Século XX', Paris, France
19a Bienal Internacional de São Paulo , São Paulo, Brazil
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, 'Geometria Hoje', Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 'Desenho nos Anos 60', São Paulo, Brazil
FUNARTE Galeria Sérgio Milliet, 'Caligrafias e Esculturas', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'Destaques da Arte Contemporânea Brazileira', São Paulo, Brazil
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 'Tradição e Ruptura: Síntese da Arte e Cultura Brazileira', São Paulo, Brazil
Paulo Figueiredo Galeria de Arte, 'Le Petit Format', São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'Panorama Atual da Arte Brazileira. Arte sobre Papel', São Paulo, Brazil
Barbican Art Gallery, 'Portraits of a Country: Brazilian Modern Art from the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection', London, England
Kouros Gallery, 'Women of the Americas: Emerging Perspectives', New York NY
Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, ' Do Moderno ao Contemporâneo. Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 'Arte Pesquisa', São Paulo, Brazil
16a Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
IV Bienal de Artes Gráficas, Cali, Colombia
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Gerox, São Paulo, Brazil
Galeria Nova Acrópole, 'Desenhos e Pinturas de Mira Schendel, Tomoshige Kusuno e Marcelo Villares', São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'Panorama de Arte Atual Brazileira, Pintura', São Paulo, Brazil
'XXXIX Biennale di Venezia', Venice, Italy
Museu de Arte Brazileira da Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, 'Objeto na Arte: Brazil Anos 60', São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Brazileira da Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, 'Três Premissas', São Paulo, Brazil
International Exhibition Foundation, 'Recent Latin American Drawings 1969 – 1976: Lines of Vision', Washington DC
Galeria Arte Global, 'Arte Brazileira: Figuras e Movimentos', São Paulo, Brazil
III Bienal Americana de Artes Gráficas, Cali, Colombia
Arte Fiera 76, Bologna, Italy
II Canale, 'Tra Linguaggio e Immagine', Venice, Italy
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas José Pancetti, 'IX Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas', Campinas, Brazil
Billeedgalleri’ s Festspillutstilling, 'Gromhotls-Samling', Bergen, Norway
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'Panorama de Arte Atual Brazileira. Desenho e Gravura', São Paulo, Brazil
Galleria Artivise, 'Poesiavisiva Artivise', Rome, Italy
Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, 'Gromhotls-Samling,' Hovikodden, Norway
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, 'Amélia Amorim Toledo, Donato Ferrari e Mira Schendel', São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'Panorama de Arte Atual Brazileira. Desenho e Gravura', São Paulo, Brazil
Gromholt Galleri, Oslo, Norway
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP), 'Panorama de Arte Atual Brazileira. Desenho e Gravura', São Paulo, Brazil
Lisson Gallery, 'Lisson 68', London, England
Gromholt Galleri, Oslo, Norway
'III Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas', Campinas, Brazil
Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, 'Exposição de Desenho e Gravura', Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, 'Propostas 65', São Paulo, Brazil
'VIII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo', São Paulo, Brazil
Signals Gallery, 'Soundings Two', London, England
'I Bienal Intemacional de Sao Paulo', Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bibliography
Monographs
Barson, Tanya, and Taisa Palhares (eds.), 'Mira Schendel', London: Tate Publishing, 2013 (exh. cat.)
Pérez-Oramas, Luis, and Rodrigo Naves, 'León Ferrari & Mira Schendel. Tangled Alphabets', Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, Porto Alegre: Fundação Iberê Camargo, 2009 (exh.cat.)
Galeria Milan (ed.), 'Mira Schendel. Monotypes', São Paulo: Galeria Milan, 2009 (exh.cat.)
Marques, Maria Eduarda, 'Mira Schendel', São Paulo: Cosac & Naify Edições, 2001
França, Augusto, 'Desenhos de Mira Schendel', Lisbon: Galeria Bulchholz, 1966 (exh.cat.)
Spanudis, Theon, 'Mira', Campinas: Galeria Aremar, 1964 (exh.cat.)
Artist's Books & Writings
Publications
Alex Balgiu, Mónica de la Torre (eds.), 'Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959–1979', New York: Primary Information, 2020, pp. 360-362, ill.
Panzera, Lisa, 'An Eccentric View', New York: Mignoni Gallery, 2018, ill. (exh. cat.)
The Fruitmarket Gallery (ed.), 'possibilities of the object experiments in modern and contemporary Brazilian art', Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2015 (exh. cat)
Dominique Lévy Gallery (ed.), 'Sotto Voce', London: Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2015 (exh. cat.)
Naves, Rodrigo, 'Mira Schendel: o mundo como generosidade', in: 'A forma difícil: ensaios sobre arte brasileira', São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2011, pp. 261–76
Salzstein, Sônia, 'Mira Schendel: Playing on the Surface of Language', in: 'Constructing a Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art', Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007, pp. 192–206
Durate, Paulo Sergio, 'Campo Ampliado', São Paulo: São Paulo Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, 2007 (exh.cat.)
Naves, Rodrigo, Mesquita, Tiago, 'Amilcar de Castro, Mira Schendel, Sergio Camargo, Willys de Castro', São Paulo: Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, 2005, (exh.cat.)
Uchóa, Carlos Eduardo, 'Mira: o corpo da escritura no mundo do simulacro', in: 'Doação Paulo Figueriedo Museu de Arte Moderna', São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 2001, pp. 77-86
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Kamita, João Masao, ' Mira Schendel, Sergio Camargo, Willys de Castro', Rio de Janeiro: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2000 (exh.cat)
24th Bienal de São Paulo (ed.), 'XXIV Bienal de São Paulo. Núcleo Histórias de Canibalismos. Vol. 1.' São Paulo: 24th Bienal de São Paulo, 1998 (exh.cat.)
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (ed.), 'Arte Constructiva no Brasil. Coleção Adopho Leirner = Constructive Art in Brazil: Adolpho Leirner Collection', São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 1998 (exh.cat.)
Whitelegg, Isobel, 'Mira Schendel', in: Pérez-Barreiro, Gabriel (ed.), 'Blanton Museum of Art Latin American Collection', Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1996, pp. 371-374
Spanudis, Theon, 'Arte Transcendente', São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 1981 (exh.cat.)
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Press
Roffino, Sara, 'Phillips to incorporate its Latin American offering in its main contemporary auctions', on: theartnewspaper.com, London, 16 January 2018
Gueiros, Gisela, 'Brasil domina NY com arte concretista', on: gq.globo.com, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13 September 2017
Rhodes, David, 'Mira Schendel: Sarrafos and Black and White Works', on: brooklynrail.org, Brooklyn NY, 5 October 2017
'Mira Schendel', in: The New Yorker, New York NY, 2 October 2017, p. 6
'Mira Schendel: 7 Sep — 21 Oct 2017 at Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York, United States', on: www.wsimag.com, Buvda, Montenegro, 25 September 2017
Kirk, Meredith, 'LA/LA Land', on: www.artagencypartners.com, New York NY, 14 September 2017
Arriola, Magalí, 'South – South’, in: Frieze, London England, September 2017, pp. 120-123
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Thomson, Allese, 'Mira Schendel. Edited by Tania Barson and Taisa Palhares', in: BookForum, New York, April – May 2014, Vol. 21-1, p. 38, ill.
___,'Mira Schendel', in: Aesthetica, York, April – May 2014, p. 107, ill.
Cotter, Holland, 'Mira Schendel', in: The New York Times, New York, 25 April 2014, p. 30, ill.
Cooper, Ashton, 'Review: Mira Schendel at Hauser and Wirth', on: https://www.blouinartinfo.com, New York, 12 April 2014, ill.
D., Creahan, 'New York – Mira Schendel at Hauser and Wirth Through April 26th, 2014', on: www.artobserved.com, New York, 1 April 2014, ill.
Leahy, Joe, 'Brazil: The new collectors', in: Financial Times Weekend Mag, London, 29-30 March 2014, pp. 13-15, ill.
Gilligan, Melanie, 'On Language as Plastic Phenomenona', in: Texte zur Kunst, Berlin, March 2014, pp. 245 – 249, ill.
Lovatt, Anna, 'Mira Schendel-Tate Modern', in: Artforum, New York, March 2014, pp. 295-296, ill.
Martí, Silas, 'Galerias de Nova York descobrem nova onda de artistas brasileiros'. on: www.folha.uol.com.br, Sao Paulo BR, 10 March 2014
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Ang, Kristiano, 'Moving Beyond Brazil', in: Wall Street Journal, New York, 4 March 2014, p. 25
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