Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim Botânico

The Brazilian painter has been popular for a couple of decades in Latin America and Europe, but this is her first U.S. museum survey, making it a bit of a coup for both PAMM and Miami.

Lavish license pervades this Brazilian garden. Overlapping layers of eye-popping blooms seem to sing with sexy rhythms from the famed Carnival festival in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes discusses her first major U.S. retrospective. The exhibition features the artist’s large-scale abstract paintings inspired by Brazilian and European Modernism, Baroque forms, popular culture, and the decorations of Carnival. With an introduction by Tobias Ostrander, PAMM Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs.

On the occasion of the opening of her first major U.S. retrospective, Jardim Botânico, Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes speaks with PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander about the evolution of her work.

Take a tour of Brazil with Beatriz Milhazes. Follow the artist to her native Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and visit the Botanical Garden and her studio, as well as the Pinacotea museum in Sao Paulo.

On Thursday, September 18, 2014, visitors celebrated the opening of "Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim Botânico", presented by Itaú, at Pérez Art Museum Miami. The opening celebration featured the Miami debut of Brazilian band Alma Tropicalia, sets by DJ Marcello Bentine and Brazilian-inspired cocktails as the sun set over Museum Park.

On Wednesday, September 17, 2014, at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), members of Museum Circle and VIP guests took part in an exclusive preview of "Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim Botânico," presented by Itaú.

Beatriz Milhazes's explosive botanical scenes have been coveted for years by collectors throughout South America and Europe, but on Sept. 19, the Brazilian painter will open her first solo museum show in the U.S. at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Richly layered, intensely chromatic, and bursting with energy, the paintings of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes catch one’s attention and hold it—drawing the eye deeper into her signature jungles of pattern and color.

Beatriz Milhazes makes Artnews' list of top 10 most expensive living women artists.

On September 19, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present the first major U.S. survey of works by Brazilian abstract artist Beatriz Milhazes. On view through January 11, 2015, "Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim Botânico" will feature over 40 large-scale paintings, collages, and screenprints from the past 25 years of her career.

The selection and presentation of artists, collections, and commissioned projects for PAMM is guided by the Museum’s mission to create dialogues across and through local, regional, and international contexts and to emphasize artists and projects that engage with traditions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.