Erika Verzutti works with papier-mâché, bronze, plaster, concrete, wax, acrylic and oil paint, occupying the meeting place of painting and sculpture, in a comprehensive and omnivorous practice. Her forms can spring from eggs, animals, fruits and vegetables, as well as from an empirical manual molding process. The surfaces of her sculptures are frequently rugged, scratched, furrowed and cut up. Her process encounters an interplay between material properties and symbolic overtones, reprocessing both modernist sculpture and vernacular construction. The artist connects an archaeological temporality with the contemporary rhythm, like an infinite scroll, through her tactile work that shelters disparate elements without hierarchizing them. The network of allusion created by Verzutti’s sculptures produces a field of resonances between the constructed figures and the cultural references that their contours and silhouettes evoke.
Recent solo exhibitions include Sculptures Last Night, Pourquoi Paris?, Hotel Balzac, Paris, France (2025); Sculptures With Wind, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); The Life of Sculptures, LUMA Arles, Arles, France (2024); Notizia, ICA Milano, Milan, Italy (2024); Erika Verzutti: New Moons, CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-On-Hudson, USA (2023); A indisciplina da escultura, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brasil (2021); Erika Verzutti, Centre Pompidou, Paris, França (2019) and Venus Yogini, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA (2019) .The artist also participated in the group shows Bukhara Biennial – Recipes for Broken Hearts, Bukhara, Uzbequistan (2025); Taguchi Art Collection Vol. II: Your Compass in the “Incredible” Contemporary Art World – #MoreTagukore, Takahashi City Nariwa Museum of Art, Takahashi City, Japan (2025); Era uma vez: visões do céu e da Terra, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Sculptures in the Park, Compton Vernney, Wellsbourne, UK (2024) and Geneva Biennale–Sculpture Garden, Genebra, Suíça (2022).
Verzutti’s work has been included in important public collections, such as Tate Modern, London, UK; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA; François Pinault Collection, France; Colección Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA; Muzeum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland; MAMCO – Musée D’Art Moderne Et Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland and Arizona State University Museum – ASU Art Museum, Tempe, USA.
