Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009
Occupation Abraham Palatnik, Instituto Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Histórias e estórias da cor, Galeria Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2008
Ordenando as nuvens, Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2004/2005
Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2002
Pioneer Palatnik – Painting Machines and Decelerating Machines, Instituto Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2000
Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1998
Retrospective 1942, Instituto Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1965
Howard Wise Gallery, New York, USA
Hella Nebelung Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

1964
Hochschule Museum, Saint Gallen, Switzerland
Studio F Gallery, Ulm, Germany


Selected Group Exhibitions

2011
Máquinas Poéticas, Museu Casa do Pontal, Rio de Janeiro

2010
TÉKHNE - Dos multimeios à arte digital, MAB-FAAP, São Paulo, Brasil

2009 Metafísica do Belo, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brasil
Olhar da crítica – Arte premiada da ABCA, Palácio dos Bandeirantes, São Paulo, Brasil

2008
Slow Movement or: Half and whole, Kunsthalle Bern, Berna, Switzerland
Color into light: Selections from the MFAH Collection, Houston, USA

2007
Lo[s] Cinético[s], Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lo[s] Cinético[s], Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

2006
Pincelada – Painting and Method, projections of the 50's, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Summer of Love”, Tate Liverpool, England
Schin Kunstalle, Frankfurt, Germany

2005
Homo Ludens – Do faz- de – conta à vertigem, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cinético Digital, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2004
Hiper>relações eletro//digitais, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Arte Abstrata nas Coleções MAM e Gilberto Chateaubriand, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2003
Cuasi-Corpos: Arte Concreto y Neo Concreto de Brasil, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico

2002
Caminhos do Contemporâneo, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2001
Trajetória da Luz na Arte Brasileira, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2000
Brasil 500 anos Artes Visuais, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Heterótopos, medio siglo sin lugar 1918 – 1968, Centro de Arte Reyna Sofia, Madrid, Spain

1998
Máquinas de Arte, Instituto Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1997
I Biennial of Visual Arts of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

1987
Modernidade - Art Brésilien du XX e Siécle, Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris, France

1969
X Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

1967
Light Motion Space, Milwaukee Art Center, Chicago e Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
IX Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

1966
Kinetic Art, Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

1965
VIII Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
Lumiére, Mouvements et Optique, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Bruxelas, Belgium
Licht und Bewegung, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany e Kunsthalle, Berna, Switzerland
Art Turned On, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

1964
XXXII Venice Bienalle, Italy

1961
VI Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

1959
V Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

1955
II Mostra do Grupo Frente, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
III Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

1953
II Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

1951
I Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil


Public Collections

MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA
The Adolpho Leirner Collection, Museum of fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, USP, Brazil
Contemporary Art Museum in Curitiba, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art in Brasilia, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, Brazil
William Keiser Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Instituto Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Enersis Collection, USA