Career
In the 1960s she designed the first album cover for the Tropicália movement, a Brazilian art movement associated with the Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. In 1970 she had her first installation, "Magi(o)cean". She has conducted numerous interviews with John Cage, including a video interview that eventually became a part of her film Controverse.
She moved to New York in the 1970s, and in 1979 she curated "the first and most comprehensive Brazilian avant-garde exhibit in the city at that time." In 1980 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Vater"s work is known for its feminist themes and questions regarding culture and identity. Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, France (1967)
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1976)
São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (1981)
Texas Triennial (1988)
Process Status 1 Museum, New York, United States (1989)
Koninklijk National Royal Museum, Antwerp, The Netherlands (1992)
Brazilian Visual Poetry, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, United States (2002)
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National Library of France, Paris, France
The Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, San Antonio, Texas
The Blanton Museum of the University of Texas, Austin, Texas
The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Visual Poetry Archives, Miami, Florida.
