Hudinilson Jr.

The multimedia artist Hudinilson Jr., who died in 2013 at the age of 57, is considered one of the most significant Brazilian artists of his generation. In addition to his wide-ranging creative output, he also played a critical role in the founding of a number of artist groups and the organization of experimental exhibitions. He’s perhaps best known for his experiments with Xerox machines, which began as early as the late 1970s. He pushed the limits of the machine to create and manipulate a wealth of images, many of which were homoerotic, with some pushed to the edges of abstraction. Hudinilson Jr.’s work went on to take shape in an array of mediums, including performance, sculpture, and painting, and today his work can be found in the permanent collections of museums such as MoMA, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Migros Museum in Zurich, the São Paulo Museum of Art.