Amanda Bonan

Amanda Bonan Gusmão Porto is a curator, researcher, and Curatorial Manager at the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), a position she has held since 2017. She holds a PhD in Visual Arts from the University of São Paulo, and her curatorial practice focuses on collaborative methodologies, feminist perspectives, and the African diaspora in the Americas. She has curated major exhibitions such as Um Defeito de Cor, Crônicas Cariocas, and Funk: Um Grito de Liberdade e Ousadia, and has coordinated international collaborations, including programming for the Europalia.Brasil festival in Belgium.

Daniele Santos

Daniele Queiroz Santos (São Paulo, Brazil) is a curator in the Contemporary Art Department at the Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) and founder of A história é outra, an independent platform that promotes women artists working in photography. She co-curated Zanele Muholi: Courageous Beauty (2025), Entre Nós (Between Our Knots): Ten Years of the ZUM/IMS Scholarship (2023), Latin Constellations: Encounters in Photobooks (2022), and Reality and Corrosion: Contemporary Japanese Photobooks (2022), all at IMS. She was also part of the curatorial team for Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective (2022) and has served as one of the curatorial mentors for recipients of the ZUM/IMS Scholarship since 2020. In 2023, she worked as Assistant Curator on the exhibition’s presentation at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

Fernanda Albuquerque

Fernanda Albuquerque (born in Rio de Janeiro, 1978; based in Porto Alegre) is a curator and professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where she teaches in the fields of Museology and Arts. She holds both a Master’s degree and a PhD in Visual Arts from UFRGS, with a research fellowship at the University of the Arts London (2013–2014). She is a member of the Collection and Curatorship Committee at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul (MACRS, 2021–). She was Assistant Curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial (2011) and Curator of Visual Arts at the São Paulo Cultural Centre (2008–2010). Since 2007, she has developed curatorial and educational projects with institutions including Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo), Goethe-Institut (Porto Alegre), the São Paulo Biennial, Galería Gabriela Mistral (Santiago de Chile), Museu Murillo La Greca (Recife), and Casa Daros (Rio de Janeiro). In 2010, she received the Studies and Research Award on Art and Art Economy in Brazil from the São Paulo Biennial Foundation.

Guilherme Giufrida 

Guilherme Giufrida holds a PhD from UNICAMP and an MA in Social Anthropology from the National Museum (UFRJ). He was a visiting researcher at Sciences Po, Paris, and served as Curatorial Assistant at the 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennale (2013). He was Director and Curator of the Louvre Pau-Brazyl and, since 2018, has been part of the curatorial team at MASP. His projects include solo exhibitions by Laís Myrrha, João Artacho Jurado, the Huni Kuin Artists Movement, Luiz Zerbini, and Catherine Opie — the latter selected by Artforum as one of the top ten exhibitions of 2024. His work has been presented at Kode Bergen Art Museum (Norway), the Venice Biennale, Itaú Cultural (São Paulo), among others. He has published extensively in catalogues and journals such as Select and the catalogue of the 32nd São Paulo Biennial. He is also the editor of books including MAHKU: Mirações and Histórias Indígenas, both finalists for Brazil’s prestigious Jabuti Prize.

Lorraine Mendes

Lorraine Mendes holds a degree in Arts and Design from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), where she also completed her Master’s in History. She is currently pursuing a PhD in History and Art Criticism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where her research examines contemporary Black poetic agency and archival formation. Between 2019 and 2021, she taught at UFRJ’s School of Fine Arts. She is currently a curator at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Mendes co-curated Dos Brasis: Black Art and Thinking (Dos Brasis: Arte e Pensamento Negro), the largest exhibition of Black artists ever held in Brazil. The result of two years of research and travel across the country, the exhibition brought together 241 artists and 384 works across two editions, representing all 26 Brazilian states and the Federal District. Organised into seven thematic sections, the show foregrounded Afro-Brazilian artistic production and generated an important archive for research and visibility.