Regina Vater

Regina Maria da Motta Vater (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 1943) is a Brazilian intermedia artist, illustrator, draughtswoman, painter, and photographer. She began her studies in drawing and painting at Frank Schaeffer's studio from 1958 to 1962 and later with Iberê Camargo from 1962 to 1965 in Rio de Janeiro. In the early 1960s, she enrolled in the National Faculty of Architecture, now the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FAU/UFRJ), but left in 1964 to focus on her art. That same year, she held her first solo exhibition at the Galeria Alpendre in Rio de Janeiro.

In the early 1970s, she moved to São Paulo and worked as an assistant director at the advertising agencies DPZ and MPM. In 1972, she won a travel grant from the União Nacional de Arte Moderna and traveled to New York for the first time, where she collaborated with Hélio Oiticica and studied silkscreen at the Pratt Institute. She lived in Paris from 1974 to 1975. In 1975, she had a solo exhibition in New York at the Bleeker Cinema Gallery. Back in Brazil, she took a super-8 film course at the Griffe School in São Paulo.

Regina authored children's books such as "Tungo Tungo" and "Uma Amizade Bem Temperada," published in the late 1970s. In 1979, she organized the first exhibition of contemporary and experimental Brazilian art in New York: "Contemporary Brazilian Works on Paper: 49 artists" at the Nobé Gallery. As a Guggenheim Foundation fellow, she returned to New York in 1980 to develop research on installations, which she had begun in 1970. In 1983, she edited an issue of the magazine "Flue," dedicated to experimental art produced in Latin America. In 1986, she moved to Austin, Texas, with her husband, artist Bill Lundberg.

In 1998, as part of the artist-in-residence program at the ArtPace Foundation in San Antonio, Texas, she created five installations, exhibited at the institution the following year. In 2000, she gave a lecture on the exhibition "Blurring the Boundaries" at the Blanton Museum in Austin. In 2002, she curated the exhibition "Brazilian Visual Poetry," featuring 51 artists, at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin.

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