EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D. in Visual Studies, History of Art and Visual Culture Department, 2023
Whitney Museum – Independent Study
Critical Studies Program, 2019
School of Visual Arts, New York
MFA, Art Criticism and Writing, 2015
Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York
MA, Art History, Contemporary Art, 2013
Centro Universitário Belas Artes de Sao Paulo, Brazil
BA, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Faculty and Graduate Student Instructor
Fall 2021- Fall 2022. Graduate Student Instructor and Lecturer,
Undergraduate Program
University of California Santa Cruz, CA
Designed and taught:
• Introduction to Curatorial Studies – Fall 2021
• Introduction to Curatorial Studies – Fall 2022
Summer 2019. Graduate Student Instructor, Undergraduate Program
University of California Santa Cruz, CA
Designed and taught:
• Latin American Art and Visual Culture – Online
January, 2019 – June 2019. Adjunct Faculty, Undergraduate Program
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Designed and taught:
• Art in New York
January, 2017 – Summer 2018. Adjunct Faculty, Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Designed and taught the following courses:
• Art Since 1945 – Summer 2018
• From Inverted Utopias to Molecular Revolutions- Narratives in Latin American Art – Spring 2017
• Making and Remaking: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America Art – Fall 2017
Teaching Assistant and Fellow
Spring and Summer 2020. Graduate Online Teaching Fellow
University of California Santa Cruz, CA
• UCSC’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning
Winter 2016 – Spring 2022. Teaching Assistant.
University of California, Santa Cruz
Served as Teaching Assistant at the History of Art and Visual Culture Department and at the Art Department for 6 years
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
• Critical Minded Publication Award, 2021.
• Dissertation Writing Support, Research Center for the Americas and Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2021.
• Porter College Travel/Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020, 2021.
• Dissertation Year-Completion, Arts Division, University of California Santa Cruz, 2019
• Graduate Assistant, Dean Susan Solt, 2018
• Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence, 2018, 2019
• Porter College Travel/Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2016.
• Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Silvia Miller Book Awards Fund, 2015.
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
RELEVANT PRINT
• “O Eterno Encontro: Um Esboço de Análise Visual Do Protesto de Ailton Krenak Durante a Assembleia Constituinte de 1987-88,” in Entre Utopias e Memórias: Arte, Museus e Patrimônio (Rio de Janeiro: Mórula, 2021).
• “’Against, Again’ and the True Meaning of Courage,’ in Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil, 2020.
• Venceremos: Resisting the Rise of the Far-right in Brazil, Brooklyn Rail, 2019.
• “Joiri Minaya: Of Undoing Images,” in The Matter of Photography in the Americas, ed. Natalia Brizuela and Jodi Roberts (Stanford, California: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and Stanford University Press, 2018).
• Deshaciendo la nostalgia: Una conversación sobre los antídotos de David Kelley para el realismo y la modernidad en Brasil. post(s), Volumen 3, Diciembre 2017. Colegio de Comunicación y Artes Contemporáneas COCOA de la Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ.
• Arte Contemporânea no Brasil: do final do século XX ao início do século XXI, (Book: Contemporary Art in Brazil: from the 20th Century to the beginning of the 21st Century). Pinakotheke Ed., Rio de Janeiro, 2015. 79p.
Relevant Online Publications
• Alva Mooses & Mauricio Cortes: You Enter Dancing/There’s Always Sign, LatinxSpaces, 2021.
• A Cuban Artist’s Transgressive Reclaiming of an Afro-Latin American Religion: Belkis Ayón’s Exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, LatinxSpaces, 2017.
• With Fierce Dulzura: Queering Tèhuäntin in San Francisco. LatinxSpaces, 2017.
• Art is Our Last Hope, The Brooklyn Rail, 2016.
• A Sao Paulo Biennial in Praise of Uncertainties, ArtNews, 2016.
• Implicated Viewers: Looking at Violence Through Latin Contemporary Art, artcritical, 2016.
• The Pointless and Foolish in Endearing Films About Childhood and Old Age, Hyperallergic, 2016.
• An Outsider’s Tale: Ana Mendieta at Galerie Lelong, artcritical, 2016.
• A William Eggleston Retrospective on Tropical Soil, artcritical, 2015.
• Jonathas de Andrade: Subverting Cheap Labor and Racism in Brazil, artcritical, 2015.
• The Unlearning, Guernica Magazine. Essay on Brazilian artist Paulo Bruscky, 2014.
PRESENTATIONS
• “O Eterno Encontro: um esboço de análise visual do protesto de Ailton Krenak durante a Assembleia Constituinte de 1987-88.” Arte e memórias políticas no Webinário Internacional V Seminário Arte, Cultura e Poder – Memórias políticas em contextos de crise, 2021.
“The Undoing of Celebrations: Art and the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil”. Whitney’s Independent Study Program Symposium, Whitney Museum of American Art, May 2019.
• “The Eternal Encounter: Indigenous Visual Culture and the Legacies of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil,” Graduate Student Symposium, UC Santa Cruz. May 2017.
• “Lygia Clark’s The Structuring of the Self: Relational Objects and Mental Images,” Sensorial Encounters, Graduate Symposium, University of Kansas. October, 2016.
• “Breaking with Fluency: Irreconcilability of Words and Worlds in Contemporary Art,” Panel Of the Word, Graduate Student Conference, School of Visual Arts, NY. December, 2013.
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
September 2023-Present. Program Manager, Visualizing Abolition
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
• Assists with exhibition planning and development of Visualizing Abolition Program’s exhibitions and related publications
• Manages and helps conceptualize Visualizing Abolition’s events and special programming
• Leads and helps conceptualize exhibition tours
• Supervises student interns in diverse research- and exhibition-related-tasks
• Manages the Visualizing Abolition Studies Certificate program; serves as student advisor, organizes meetings and provides support to affiliated faculty and departments, keeps records, and tracks students’ progress
September 2017- 2020. Creative Director.
AnnexB (non-profit), New York.
• Curated Fragmento, In-Process.
• Organized the organization’s annual report.
• Prepared and assisted with written material for the organization’s open call for artists-in-residence.
June, 2013 – May, 2014 – 2014 Whitney Biennial’s Curatorial Intern
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Created object records, loan records, loan forms, and loan letters for the entire Biennial.
• Created and updated the main checklist and verified its consistency with TMS’ records.
• Assembled materials for the 2014 Biennial catalogue.
• Researched on artists and prepared research packets for all of them (123).
• Prepared organizational spreadsheets to track the diverse stages of the show.
• Assisted the curators with administrative paperwork: reimbursements, booking flights, or hotel reservations.
• Collected and added information on artists and curators to Raiser’s Edge.
• Maintained the archive with confidentiality agreements, research packets, images’ rights information, etc.
January – April, 2013. Curatorial Intern at the Architecture and Design Department – Historical Design.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Worked in TMS: object packages and prepared checklists for the exhibit Hands, Signals and Digits.
• Executed gallery-checks of the historical design’s and special exhibitions’ galleries.
• Drafted extended labels and dossiers for upcoming acquisitions.
• Assembled bibliographic information on artists, designers, and artworks.
• Attended kick-off meetings and visits to the storage of the collection.
July – December, 2012. Volunteer, Curatorial Department.
El Museo del Barrio, New York
• Organized and catalogued the publications of the library.
• Updated the online database with information on artists and artworks.
CURATORIAL WORK – INDEPENDENT CURATOR
•Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil. The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. New York, NY, February-April, 2020. Artists included Cildo Meirelles, Maria Thereza Alves, Anna Bella Geiger, Jonathas de Andrade, among others.
•Young Latinx Artists 24. BUEN VIVIR/VIVIR BIEN. Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas, June-August, 2019.
•Land+Body=Escape. Presented by The 55 Project. NARS Foundation, NY and Art&Art Gallery, Wynwood, Miami. March-April 2018. Exhibition featured 15 emerging Brazilian artists based across the US.
•Fragmento, In-Process. Presented by AnnexB. b[x] Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC. November-December 2017. Focused on emerging Brazilian Artists.
• Another Gesture. 4 Women Painters from Brazil and Germany. A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC. August 3-20th, 2017.
• Triplopia. Pinacoteca de São Caetano, Brazil. July 26 – October 22, 2014. Triplopia was an exhibition of a family of artists: Gregorio Gruber, Lorena Hollander, and Lucio Tamino; it focused on thematic intersections between their works, discussing their relationship to the city of Sao Paulo.
• Sisifo: El heroismo del Absurdo. ArteActual FLACSO. Quito, Ecuador. April 16 – May 27, 2013. The exhibition revisited the idea of useless labor and failure, but in regard to a globalized, postcolonial, world. Works by Francis Alÿs, Kate Gilmore, Cinthia Marcelle and Carla Zaccagnini.
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