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.
Find original Vik Muniz photography and other art on 1stDibs.
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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 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
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
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
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
Ashby Round Side Table Handcrafted in Red Travertine
By Kevin Frankental
Located in Amsterdam, NL
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Marble
MIGO – Side Table in Walnut Wood with Leather Strap
By Daniel Schofield
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
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Wood, Walnut
Handcrafted English Oak Side Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Elegant hand-crafted and turned side table with a modernist style in English oak. Beautifully formed concentric rippling circular base which is reflected underside of the upper surfa...
Oak
$960Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 20.48 in Dm 17.72 in
Sculptural Mango Wood Side Table or Stool, Organic Modern Design
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
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Wood, Fruitwood
$1,065
H 19.69 in W 10.24 in D 11.42 in
Sculptural Side Table, Stool, Solid Wood, Walnut, Contemporary Design, Logniture
By Logniture
Located in Stara Gradiška, HR
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$4,888 / item
H 18.51 in W 15.75 in D 15.75 in
21st Century Bossa Side Table in Mahogany Solid Wood, Handcrafted by Duistt
By Duistt
Located in Leça da Palmeira, PT
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Wood
Andrianna Shamaris Two Tone Petrified Wood Side Table
By Andrianna Shamaris
Located in New York, NY
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Large Handcrafted Side Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
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Ash