Anna Maria Maiolino

[7] After becoming a Brazilian citizen, she moved to New York in 1968 to focus more on Minimalism and Conceptualism artwork; during this time she created works that influenced interaction between the object and the viewer.

[5] In 1989, she was granted the Mário Pedrosa Prize by the Brazilian Association of Art Critics for the best show of the year for her exhibition at the Pequena gallery, and began working with clay on the Modeled Earth series.

[1] After this move, she has continued to explore the material through creating labor-intensive processes such as modeling, molding, and casting in references to recurrent gestures through a series of installations.

[citation needed] In 1994 Maiolino received the "Os Melhores de 1993-Pesquisa de Linguagem (The best of 1993- Language research)" prize from the Association of São Paulo Art Critics for her exhibition, "Um, Nenhum, Cem Mil ("One, None, One Hundred Thousand") and was a part of the 1996 show of 20th century Women Artists: "Inside the Visible".

[2] More recent solo exhibitions include 'The Matrix 252', which is a selection of videos that use the body to express life when ruled by an oppressive government and 'Affections' (2014).

[8] In 2012, she participated in Documenta 13 (Kassel, Germany) with the work Here & There, a site specific installation from the Modeled Earth series, composed of clay, sounds and plants.