Brenda de Oliveira Silva Cavalcante

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Aesthetics and Art History at the University of São Paulo (PGEHA-USP), currently undertaking a CAPES-funded doctoral exchange (PDSE) as a Visiting Scholar at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. My research focuses on Contemporary Art and Amazonian Visual Cultures. I am a researcher in the project "The Amazon Basin as a Connecting Borderland: Examining Cultural and Artistic Fluidities in the Early Modern Period," funded by the Getty Foundation. I also take part in the Abya-Yala study group and the Quintas Ameríndias cultural and extension program at the School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU-USP), which is affiliated with the FAPESP/FAU-USP Young Researcher Project Phase 2: Barroco-Açu: Portuguese America in the Artistic Geography of the Global South. I hold a B.A. in English from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA, 2009), an M.A. in Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at USP (ECA-USP, 2013), and a postgraduate specialization in Production Design for Audiovisual Media from SENAC (2018). Since 2013, I have been working in both art education and the art market, with a particular interest in projects that explore the intersection between Art and the Environment, especially in rural contexts. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)