Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist currently working out of New York.
Muniz is well known for his broad range of experimental works. While he started his career as a sculptor, his practice today is almost entirely photo-based — creating works but then photographing them.
Muniz’s interest in human visual understanding is the running theme behind the majority of his work, of which a photograph called Key, from Earthworks is a perfect example. The "Earthworks" series also includes images of electrical outlets, tobacco pipes, footprints, scissors, dice, paper airplanes, envelopes, and coat hangers. The juxtaposition of intimate, inanimate objects and the living, changing landscape renders this photographic series truly striking.
Muniz's innovative and shifting methods of visual communication are what constantly earn him recognition and admiration internationally. He frequently destabilizes the conventions of the art history canon by revisiting or appropriating conventions and icons but realizing them in unconventional materials and creative strategies.
Muniz's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art to name a few.
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Vik Muniz Button Coffee Table in Brazilian Wood by +55design
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jardim America, SP
Renowned Brazilian artist and button collector Vik Muniz reimagines a small everyday object on a grand scale with this sculptural coffee table, designed in collaboration with +55desi...
Hardwood
Vik Muniz Side Table – Handcrafted Leather, Brass, FSC Wood in 3 Tones
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jardim America, SP
Designed by renowned Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, this striking side table reimagines the everyday needle reel in a bold, sculptural form. Enlarged in scale and offered in three rich ...
Leather, Hardwood
Vik Muniz Button Side Table – FSC Tauari Wood, Sculptural Design by +55design
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jardim America, SP
Renowned Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, known for his playful and conceptual approach to everyday objects, reimagines the humble button in this sculptural side table created in an exclu...
Hardwood
Vik Muniz Pincushion Pouf in Foam & Brazilian Wood with Steel Pins by +55design
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jardim America, SP
What if a pincushion were given an entirely new role—like supporting your feet or serving as a playful accent in your living space? Created in collaboration with celebrated artist Vi...
Metal
Campbell Armchair by Vik Muniz – Red Wool Detail, FSC Wood, Playful Form
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jardim America, SP
The Campbell Armchair, designed by acclaimed Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, brings his conceptual artistry into the realm of furniture design. Known for his challenging perception throu...
Wool
Medusa Marinara - Peter Norton Christmas Gift by Vik Muniz
By Bernardaud, Vik Muniz
Located in Soquel, CA
Medusa Marinara - Peter Norton Christmas Gift by Vik Muniz Every year since 1988, technology entrepreneur and avid collector Peter Norton commissioned an artist to create an origina...
Porcelain
The Glass House, After Robin Hill Photograph by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in New Canaan, CT
Vik Muniz The Glass House, after Robin Hill Digital C print Measures: 20 in. x 29.6 in. Accompanied by a complete signature label Edition of 25 U...
Paper
Brazilian Designer, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1960s
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table designed and produced in Brazil, c. 1960s. Moderate break on one corner of marble. Natural color variation with subtle green inclusions. Wear consis...
Marble
Handcrafted Walnut Side Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully turned and completely handcrafted walnut side table in a modernist design. This is a bespoke piece of the finest quality, handmade by our master craftsman in the UK usin...
Walnut
Handcrafted English Side Drink Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand turned and handcrafted English side table in walnut. The top surface has a slight rounded edge and the base a superb concave rim ascending to join the centre column....
Walnut
$500 / set
H 1 in Dm 11.5 in
John Glick Signed Set of 5 Plates Modernist Stoneware Glazed Ceramics Plum Tree
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A modernist stoneware glazed ceramic set of 5 plates by Detroit artist John Glick of Plum Tree Pottery. Circa late 20th century. Glazed in earthtones. Artisisnal yet functional and m...
Ceramic, Pottery
$1,920Sale Price / set|32% Off
H 0.79 in W 15.16 in D 12.01 in
Limoges Bernardaud 62 Pieces Fine Faience Dinner Service
By Bernardaud
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
Exquisite fine cream faience tableware set adorned with scattered roses and gold trim. The set consists of 62 pieces and would be ideal for casual dining, or would make an eyecatchin...
Faience, Paint
Vondel Side Table Handcrafted in Red Honed Travertine
By Kevin Frankental
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Designed as a midpoint between a sculpture and an accessory, the Vondel side table in honed red Travertine presents a sense of permanence – giving it...
Travertine
Astronomici n.1 Decorative Plate by Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Milan, IT
This hand-decorated porcelain plate is adorned with exquisite zodiac designs, making this a true collector's item. Any minor discrepancies are the result of craftsmanship and attest ...
Porcelain
Fruit Salad Plates Design by Giovanna Amoruso Manzari for Limoges France
By Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Giovanna Amoruso Manzari hand painted partial table service for Limoges, decorated with fruit, flowers, and butterflies. Measure 8.66 inches / 22 cm * Request info for flatware pric...
Ceramic
$2,510 / item
H 18.12 in W 15.75 in D 15.75 in
Couture Beige Pouf with Line Fringe by Lorenza Bozzoli Design
By Lorenza Bozzoli Design
Located in Milan, IT
An exercise in creativity and modern aesthetic sensibility, this classic pouf exudes comfort and sophistication. Fashioned of prized beech wood, the frame is raised on four black-fin...
Textile, Beech
Handcrafted English Ash Side Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand-turned and handcrafted English ash rippled side table in the modernist design. This is a fine quality bespoke piece - handmade by our master-craftsman in solid Engli...
Ash
Handcrafted Modernist Side Drink Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand-turned and handcrafted English ash ripple side table in the modernist design. This is a bespoke piece of fine quality, handmade by master-craftsmen in solid English ...
Ash
Handcrafted English Side Drink Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand turned and handcrafted English sycamore/maple and walnut side table in the modernist design. The top surface has a pillowed ripple turned underside and the base a su...
Sycamore, Walnut, Maple
Caravaggio's Medusa 'Medusa Marinara' by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Caravaggio's Medusa (Medusa Marinara) Designed 1999 Cast porcelain Measure: 12½" diameter Limited edition. Caravaggio’s Medusa (Medusa Marinara) features an image of Muniz’s recreation of Caravaggio’s Medusa (1590, Gallerica degli Uffizi, Florence) rendered in pasta marinara. The pasta “drawing” was then photographed and digitally printed on this porcelain plate fabricated in France. This sought-after edition was published by the Peter Norton...
Porcelain
The Glass House, after Robin Hill Photograph by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in New Canaan, CT
Vik Muniz The Glass House, after Robin Hill Digital C print 20 in. x 29.6 in. Edition of 25 Unframed
Paper
Happy View by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Vik Muniz. Happy View, 2015, two lenticular prints and nine pair of artist-designed sunglasses in a custom lucite case (custom sunglasses case and cleaning cloth included). Measures: 24.75 H x 20.75 W x 4.25 D inches, edition of 40 plus 5 APs, individually numbered and showing printed signature on interior of cover and on each pair of sunglasses, In collaboration with our partners at LizWorks and Selima Optiques. 5% of all proceeds benefit Escola do Vidigal, a free art and technology program founded by the artist in Rio de Janeiro to promote visual literacy. Vik Muniz, known for taking everyday materials and twisting them into unexpected imagery, has created Happy View, a playful visual pun that turns the perceived 3-D world of a lenticular into reality. Happy View consists of a wall-mounted, custom-designed lucite display box that has the presence and scale of a medicine cabinet. It features two new lenticular images...
Plexiglass
Fleur De Lys Wallpaper by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jersey City, NJ
The design for this wallpaper by Vik Muniz relates to the artist’s Pictures of Garbage series and shows a traditional Fleur de Lys pattern fashioned out of garbage and then photograp...