(this page was last updated in March 2022)
Lives and works in Brasília, Brazil.
PIPA Nomination Committee Member 2019 and 2022 .
Cinara Barbosa is a teacher, curator and critic. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Visual Arts (VIS) at the University of Brasília (UnB) she is interested in her research in artistic productions of critical revisitation to art history and decoloniality relations. As well as archival, curatorial, collection and memory poetics. Among her most recent researches resulting from curatorial studies are: educational mediation in exhibition spaces associated with institutional practices. She is the creator and coordinator of Plano das Artes, a project for the development and strengthening of the arts system involving circuits through autonomous art spaces in the Federal District, training of art educators and artistic production. She is part of the curatorial team of the project/editor Estrondo (DF) focused on publishing photo books by women artists. She was artistic director of Elefante Centro Cultural (DF), and was Deputy Coordinator of FotoRio – International Photography Festival of Rio de Janeiro, of which she was idealizer, together with Milton Guran.