Adriano Pedrosa

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Adriano Pedrosa will join us at the Art Institute of Chicago to speak about his curatorial practice, including past exhibitions in São Paulo, both at Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) and elsewhere, that informed his project for the Biennale Arte 2024. Those 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 series at MASP devoted to different Histórias: 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.

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.

This public program is made possible with the support of Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams.

Dinner

After the lecture, we invite SCA members to join Adriano for dinner at Acanto, just steps from the Art Institute and Millennium Park.