Vik Muniz

About

Photographer who was featured in Lucy Walker's documentary Waste Land in 2010, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. He has more than 400,000 followers on his vikmuniz Instagram account.

Before Fame

He won scholarships in art school and began working in advertising in Brazil at 18.

Trivia

He held the Vik Muniz Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey in Mexico from March to June 2017.

Family Life

He married Malu Barreto in 2016.

Associated With

He and Sixto Rodriguez were both artists and subjects of Academy Award-nominated documentaries.