Adriano Pedrosa
Photo courtesy of Adriano Pedrosa
Hear from Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director of Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), as he discusses his curatorial practice, which includes past exhibitions in São Paulo—both at MASP and elsewhere—that have informed his project for the Biennale Arte 2024. These projects include but are not limited to the 24th Bienal de São Paulo in 1998; the 31st Panorama da Arte Brasileira-Mamõyaguara opá mamõ pupé in 2009; and the ongoing Histories series at MASP, which includes Histories of Childhood (2016), Histories of Sexuality (2017), Afro Atlantic Histories (2018), Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories (2019), Histories of Dance (2020), Brazilian Histories (2022), Indigenous Histories (2023), and Queer Histories (2024).
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Adriano Pedrosa (b.1965) has been the artistic director of Museu de Arte de São Paulo since 2014. He was adjunct curator of the 24th Bienal de São Paulo (1998), co-curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo (2006), curator of InSite_05 (San Diego, Tijuana, 2005), artistic director of the 2nd Trienal de San Juan (2009), and curator of 31st Panorama da Arte Brasileira-Mamõyaguara opá mamõ pupé (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, 2009). In 2023, he received the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from Bard College. This year Pedrosa became the first Latin American curator to be appointed as an artistic director of the visual art sector of Biennale Arte, in Venice.
Sponsors
This program is presented by the Society for Contemporary Art and made possible with the support of Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams.
