Amanda Carneiro

Chief curator of the 37th Bienal de São Paulo
Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Amanda Carneiro is Chief curator of the 37th Bienal de São Pauloa, curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). She has been a curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) since 2018. She was an artistic organiser at the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2024)—Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. At MASP, Carneiro has curated a wide range of exhibitions dedicated to modern and contemporary art, many of which were organised in partnership with national and international institutions, such as The Whitworth, the American Folk Art Museum, the Museo Universitario del Chopo, and Itaú Cultural. Among her projects are solo exhibitions by Santiago Yahuarcani (2026); Hulda Guzmán (2025); Serigrafistas Queer (2024); Kang Seung Lee (2024); Beatriz Milhazes (2020–2021); Leonor Antunes (2019); and Sonia Gomes (2018). She has also co-organised exhibitions that have brought to light important 20th-century artists such as Abdias Nascimento (2022), Madalena Santos Reinbolt (2022), and Conceição dos Bugres (2021–2022), as well as group shows such as Histórias brasileiras (2022). She holds bachelor's and master's degrees, and is a PhD candidate in social history from the Universidade de São Paulo. She is currently conducting research on the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC '77). She was co-editor of the Afterall Journal, where she now serves on the editorial board, and, prior to joining MASP, worked at the Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo.

Amanda Carneiro visited Vienna on a research trip in April 2026.

Photo: Felipe Rau