 A retrospective of his work was presented at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1999 and then traveled to the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro and the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art.In conjunction with the exhibition, a book entitled "Cildo Meireles", was published by Phaidon Press (1999).The first extensive presentation of the artist’s work in the UK opened at Tate Modern in October 2008.