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Press

• 2024
• ‘Enchanting Traps: A Conversation with Valeska Soares’ by Robert Preece, Sculpture Magazine, November – December 2024

• 2023
• ‘Valeska Soares’ Fragile Architectures’ by Elisa Wouk Almino, Artforoum 61, no. 9, May 2023
• ‘Valeska Soares: The Garden of Broken Glass’, The Guardian, 2023
• ‘Review: Valeska Soares at Hayward Gallery’ by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Frieze, March 15, 2023
• ‘Memory and Desire in Valeska Soares’ Installations’, ArtReview, 2023
• ‘Fragile Beauty: Valeska Soares at Hayward Gallery.’, The Financial Times, 2023

• 2022
• ‘The Poetics of Space in Soares’ Work’, Artforum, 2022
• ‘Valeska Soares’ Ephemeral Architectures’, Frieze, 2022

• 2021
• ‘Review: Valeska Soares at Alexander Gray Associates’, The New York Times, 2021
• ‘Valeska Soares: Between Presence and Absence’, The Brooklyn Rail, 2021

• 2019
• ‘Berengo Studio Brings a Modern Twist to the Craft of Murano Glass-Blowing’ by Jessica Klingelfuss, Wallpaper, July 2019

• 2018
• ‘Suprise Suprise: Valeska Soares tells Tausif Noor why her visceral art is “like a trap”.’ by Tausif Noor, Frieze Week New York 2018, May 02-06, 2018.p.10
• ‘The Day After’, Vogue Brasil, (September) pp.242-249
• ‘Valeska Soares’ by Evan Moffitt, Frieze 197 (September) pp.122-127 (illus)
• ‘Valeska Soares ganaha retrospectiva na Pinacoteca de São Paulo Casa Vogue/Gemada, (07/08/2018)’ by Beta Germano, Casa Vogue/Gemada, (07/08/2018) (illus)
• ‘Valeska Soares’ by Julia Rebouças, Dasartes 74 (July 2018): 50-59

• 2017
• ‘Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now’ by Debra Herrick , Artillery. (11/7/2017)
• ‘Alexander Gray Associates Now Represents Valeska Soares’ by Scher, Robin., ArtNews. 06/26/17
• ‘La Transformacion del rol del maestro.”.’ by Martha Ramos, Capitel. no.7 (January 2017): 42-45.
• ‘Profile: Poetic Images’ by Suazana Velasco, Jacaranda No.5: cover, 2, 66-77

• 2014
• ‘Getty to Jump-Start Latin American Art Research in California’ by Jori Finkel, The New York Times (May 6)
• ‘Must See: Five London Shows Opening This Week’ by Ashitha Nagesh, Blouin Art Info (April 4)
• ‘Global Impact’ by Courtney Kasianowicz, Boston.com (March 24)

• 2013
• ‘Highlights from Frieze New York Art Fair 2013’ by Nikki Brown, Lifestyle Mirror, (May 15)

• 2012
• ‘Round Table: Artists on Their Settings for the Brooklyn Museum Gala’ by Faye Hirsch, Art In America (April 20)

• 2011
• ‘Artist Spotlight: Valeska Soares–More than the Eye Can See’ by Laura Hoffman, Broad Strokes: NMWA’s Blog for the 21st Century (January 27)

• 2005
• ‘Critic’s Pick: Valeska Soares’ by Francesco Stocci, ArtForum

Books & Catalogs

• 2025
• ‘Anonymous Was A Woman’ by Cecilia Farjado-Hill, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

• 2024
• ‘Ambienti 1956-2010: environments by women artists II’ by Marina Pugliese; Andrea Lissoni; Francesco Stocchi, Roma: MAXXI
• ‘MASP de Bolso’ by Adriano Pedrosa, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
• ‘Mirror Mirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art’ by Michal Petry, London: Thames & Hudson
• ‘Great Woman Sculptures’ by PHAIDON EDITORS; LE FEUVRE, Lisa (ED.), London: Phaidon Press

• 2021
• ‘Between the Lines, September 11- October 17,2020’ by Page Benkoski, Alexander Gray Associates

• 2019
• ‘Vitamin T.’ by Elderton, Louisa and Rebecca Morrill, ed., Phaidon Press, Inc., London

• 2018
• ‘Valeska Soares: Entrementes, Pina’ by Rebouças, Júlia , Isabella Rjeille, Melissa Rocha, and Maria do Carmo M.P. de Pontes, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, exhibition catalog, 2018

• 2017
• ‘Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now’ by Joyce, Julie, Julia Reboucas, Vanessa Davidson and Jens Hoffman, Shiffman and Kohnke, Santa Monica, 2017

• 2016
• ‘Valeska Soares’ by Hoffman, Jens and Kelly Taxter, Mousse Publishing: Milan

• 2013
• ‘Creativity and Sin’ by Marysol Nieves
• ‘Contemporary Art Brazil’ by Hossein Amirsadeghi and Catherine Petitgas, Transglobe Publishing Limited, London
• ‘Art & Place: Site-Sprecific Art of the Americas’ by Lucy L. Bowditch, Adrian Locke, and Lawrence L. Loendorf, Phaidon, London

Grants & Awards

• 2022
• Artist Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

• 2020
• Herb Albert Ucross Residency, 2020, Sheridan, Wyoming

• 2017
• Latin American Art Prize, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL

• 2014
• Pacific Standard Time: LA/ LA, The Getty Foundation

• 2005
• Anonymous Was A Woman

• 2003
• Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

• 1996
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

Public Collections

• Coleção Andrea e José Olympio Pereira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
• Museum de Arte – MASP, São Paulo, Brasil
• Fundacion Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid Spain