Brazilian artist Vik Muniz trained as a sculptor and works in conceptual photography. Muniz uses high- and low-tech methods alongside atypical materials to fabricate multilayered works. His iterative approach to artmaking includes re-photographing, reconfiguring, and collaging fragments of vintage pictures into recognizable images. Making work rooted in social issues, pop culture, and art history, Muniz photographed Brazilian trash pickers in recreations of historic paintings, regenerating the pictures with collected trash and photographing anew. In other projects, Muniz crafted images of sandcastles onto grains of sand and made prints on a monumental scale.

–Colleen Garibaldi, from the Glenstone Field Guide