Gabriela Paiva de Toledo

Gabriela Paiva de Toledo is a PhD candidate in Art History in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space, and Culture (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas). Her doctoral research examines artists critical responses to the devastation of the Amazon Rainforest in the 1970s and 1980s, investigating the relationship between art and political ecology. She holds a masters degree in Art History (Unicamp, 2017). She holds a bachelors degree and a teaching degree in History with an Art History minor (Unicamp, 2013). She was a visiting researcher at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (2016). She was a research fellow on the project The Amazon Basin as Connecting Borderland (2023-2024), The Getty Foundation, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), and Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes, Bogotá). She was a research fellow on the project "Bridging the Sacred: Spiritual Streams in Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Art, 1920-1970", Cisneros Institute, MoMA (2023-2024). She curated "Aquatic channels: waterways, water resources, fluvial imagination" (Hawn Gallery and Pollock Gallery, Dallas, Texas, October 29, 2022 to February 19, 2023). She co-curated "Tender Objects: Emotion and Sensation after Minimalism" (The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, January 21 to May 28, 2022). She was awarded the Alessandra Comini International Fellowship for Art History Studies (2023-2024) and the Provosts Doctoral Candidacy Fellowship, Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies (2023-2026) (Source: Lattes Curriculum)