Pace Adds Brazil’s Beatriz Milhazes, One of the Top-Selling Female Artists Alive, to Its Fast-Growing Roster

Fresh off the inauguration of its expanded New York HQ
last fall, Pace Gallery has been adding new artists at a rapid…
pace. The latest one is a high-profile get: Brazilian painter and
sculptor Beatriz Milhazes, who
has been represented in
New York by Jame Cohan since the early 2000s. She also happens to
be one of the top-selling female artists alive.

Born in 1960, Milhazes got her start with the Geração 80 (’80s
Generation) in her native country. She has become known for her
colorful abstract work, featuring curlicues and geometric
forms often created with her signature monotransfer technique, in
which she transfers painted designs from plastic sheets to
canvas.

According to the Artnet Price Database, Milhazes’s auction
high, achieved at Sotheby’s New York in 2012, is just over $2
million. She has ten other recorded auction sales of $1 million or
more, which places her among the best-selling living female artists
at auction. (Unlike in most countries, including the United States,
women have long dominated the art market in Brazil, comprising the
majority of its list of top-selling creators.)

“Having known Beatriz for well over a decade, it is an honor to
welcome her to the Pace family,” said Pace vice president Adam
Sheffer in a statement, “Her
singular vision and driven engagement with painting continues
Pace’s historic lineage of painters that have expanded and
radically altered the landscape of the medium, such as Jean
Dubuffet, David Hockney, Agnes Martin, Elizabeth Murray, and Robert
Ryman.”

Pace opened its massive
new eight-story flagship in New York’s Chelsea
neighborhood in September, expanding its physical footprint with
the museum-like space. Over
the past year and a half, the gallery has added art-world veterans
such as Light and Space pioneer Mary Corse—who was with Lehmann Maupin
until December 2018—and abstract painter Sam Gilliam, who signed on in June,
having never before had a New York gallery.

Other new additions to the roster include John Gerrard, formerly of New York’s Simon
Preston Gallery, who joined in September, after Preston became a
senior director at Pace.

The addition of Milhazes comes ahead of her major three-venue
survey in São Paulo, set to open at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo,
the Itaú Cultural space, and the Casa de Vidro in December. The
artist enjoyed her first North American
retrospective, “Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim
Botânica,” at Pérez Art Museum Miami in
2014.

Outside of New York, Milhazes will continue to be represented by
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel in Brazil and Lisbon; Galerie Max Hetzler
in Berlin, Paris, and London; and White Cube in London and Hong
Kong.

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