Beatriz Milhazes

Beatriz Milhazes has generously produced Histórias Tropicais II, 2025, a limited edition artwork to celebrate the recent retrospective of her work at Tate St Ives, 25 May – 29 September 2024.

Milhazes is known for exuberant and colourful large-scale abstract canvases which incorporate a unique collage process. To add motifs to her paintings, she paints onto a sheet, peels off the motifs and layers them onto the canvas, creating a collage-like effect. Realising the similarities between this collage process and the logic of print, Milhazes integrated printmaking into her overall practice. Her screenprints and relief works evolve in tandem with, and have often had impacts on, her paintings.

Her screen print edition for Tate, titled Histórias Tropicais II, 2025, is inspired by the tropical nature of Rio de Janeiro where she lives and works. Her studio is in the Jardim Botânico neighborhood, home of the Botanical Garden, which has over 6,500 species of plants and trees, and close to the Tijuca National Park, a large urban rainforest within city limits. The print has around 60 colours and was made by a trusted print-maker in Rio who has produced several editions with Milhazes.

Each print is signed and numbered by the artist. Prices of the artwork are liable to change. As a limited edition sells out, prices of the artwork are subject to increase and the price will be clearly indicated.

• Artist Beatriz Milhazes
• Artwork Histórias Tropicais II
• Exhibition Beatriz Milhazes
• Dimensions 40 x 60 cm
• Material Screenprint on paper
• Edition Limited edition of 50, signed and numbered
• Date of work 2025

Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960, Rio de Janeiro) rose to prominence in the 1980s as a leading figure of the Geração Oitenta (1980s Generation), a pivotal Brazilian art movement that saw a return to painting as a dynamic medium for artistic expression, moving away from the conceptual art of the previous decade. Adapting the concept of collage to painting, Milhazes creates densely layered works. In 1989 she developed her distinctive ‘monotransfer’ technique in which she paints her own motifs onto plastic sheeting before transposing them onto canvas. This process allows Milhazes to create a smooth and defiant surface without losing the painterly quality.

Solo exhibitions include Benesse House, Naoshima, Japan (2019); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires (2012); Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2012); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2011); Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2009); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo (2008); 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2004); and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England. In 2003 Milhazes was selected to represent Brazil at the Venice Biennale.

Milhazes’s work is included in private and public collections including those of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro; Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among many others. She lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.