Presenters or Speakers

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  Carolina Paz Artist and educator
  

  Carolina Paz

  Artist and educator

  Carolina Paz is an artist interested in small and ordinary, soft things, full-bodied, light pieces of materiality, and smooth or repeated gestures. She investigates these relationships through paintings, videos, objects, and participatory projects. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, in museums, galleries, and residencies such as the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY; RAW POP UP, Miami, FL; Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY; Virgilio Gallery, Baró Gallery, Zipper Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil; Goiania Art Museum, Goiania, Brazil; Cerveira Art Biennial Foundation, Cerveira, Portugal; National Museum Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal; Culture Centre Rector Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina; among others. She is the recipient of the Funarte Visual Arts award. Her work is featured in the permanent collections of Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art, Luis Seoane Foundation, the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art, and Goiânia Museum of Art.

  Carolina is the founder of Uncool Artist, created in Brooklyn in 2018, and the independent art space Coletivo 2e1, established in São Paulo in 2010.

  She received a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences in 1999 and a master’s degree in Media and Knowledge in 2003 from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.

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  Daniela Avellar Curator
  

  Daniela Avellar

  Curator

  Daniela Avellar is a researcher, professor, and curator. She graduated in Psychology before gaining a master’s degree in Contemporary Studies of the Arts at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. Currently, a member of the doctorate program in Media and Culture Studies at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She has published papers and texts in different books and publications. Her research traverses issues like conceptual art, sound art, language and listening as a curatorial practice. Daniela Avellar was curator of many shows that happened in Rio’s independent spaces, like Modos Rítmicos: Algo (Ricardo Basbaum’s study group show, Centro de Artes da UFF, 2018), Somarumor – Latin sound art (Espaço Apis, 2019), Primeiro encontro, Último encontro (Simon Fernandes solo show, Galeria Refresco, 2022), Escombros (Mateus Gomes solo show, winner of the photography prize FotoRio 2020, Casa da Escada Colorida, 2022), between others.