Beatriz Milhazes - Pink Sunshine

Beatriz Milhazes
Pink Sunshine
2021
Lithography
50 x 60 cm (unframed)
Ed  100
signed and numbered

Beatriz Milhazes (*1960, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro) is renowned for her vibrant abstract paintings, characterized by cascading patterns and distinctly Brazilian forms. Her visual language is inspired by specific sites, including the botanical gardens and the Tijuca Forest near her studio, the city of Rio de Janeiro itself, as well as its coastline and the ocean.

“My challenge has always been the same. I’m interested in life and my surroundings, but to make it work as a painting, I do need to think as a geometric and conceptual artist in my studio practice.” (Beatriz Milhazes, 1)

In 2021, Milhazes created a new work entitled Pink Sunshine for the Safety Curtain of the Vienna State Opera (see image 3). Following the Covid pandemic, which had subjected the opera house to recurring lockdowns over a two-year period, this luminous and vivid artwork revitalized the institution and offered a sense of hope to the artists, the team, and the audience alike. For the accompanying print, the motif was translated into a complex, multicolored lithograph, published by the initiators of the project museum in progress.

Beatriz Milhazes has had numerous solo exhibitions including MAB – Museu de Arte da Bahia, Salvador (2026); Casa Roberto Marinho, Rio de Janiero (2025); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2025); The Applied Arts Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024); Tate St. Ives (2024); Turner Contemporary (2023); Long Museum, Shanghai (2021); Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubrian (2020); Jewish Museum, New York (2016); Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2015); Centro Cultural Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (2013); Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil (2013); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2012); Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2012); Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (2011); Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2009); and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2008). In 2003 she represented Brazil at the 50th Venice Biennale.

Beatriz Milhazes is represented by PACE Gallery, White Cube and Galerie Max Hetzler.