Denise Carvalho, Ph.D.
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http://www.denisecarvalho.com
Education
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 21stCentury Brazilian Art and Film. May 2013 to May 2014. This fellowship and research
will be published at the catalogue of the exhibition “Cruzamentos” to be held from
January to April 2014 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The fellowship will also consist
of a graduate seminar taught by Dr. Carvalho in 21st-Century Brazilian art and film to be
taught in the Department of Art History in the spring of 2014, and a lecture open to the
public in Contemporary Brazilian art.
Ph.D. University of California, Davis, in Cultural Studies - 2005
Dissertation: Articulations and Interventionist Art: Negotiating the Production of
Knowledge in Brazilian Culture
Areas of Specialization: Latin American & Caribbean Art and Culture, Western and NonWestern Contemporary Art; Art Theory, New Genres (multimedia art), Interdisciplinary
Art, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Feminist Theory
M.A. University of California, Davis – Art History - 2003
Thesis: Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés: Performing Urban Marginality in Brazilian Art
Areas of Specializations: Modern and Contemporary Art (European, North American,
Latin American, non-Western, Global). Areas of specialization: Latin American Modern
and Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art (American, European, and non-Western).
M.A. U.C. Davis, Cultural Studies - 2002
M.A. Hunter College CUNY – Cultural Anthropology - 1998
Thesis: Artist-Driven Gentrification in Williamsburg
B.F.A. School of Visual Art - 1996
Major: Fine Arts (painting).
Selected Curatorial Projects and Exhibitions 1999-2013
1) “LOVE at the Edge” at Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland, from May 24th to July 30th,
2015, and at the Oi Futuro Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in March, April, and June
of 2016.
Artists: Izabella Gustowska (Poland), Katarzyna Krakowiac (Poland), Ira Eduardovna
(Uzbekistan), Milena Dopitova (Czech Republic), Agata Michowska (Poland), Anna
Baumgart (Poland), Aletvina Kakhidze (Ukraine), Duba Sambolec (Slovenia), Olesia
Khomenko (Ukraine), Elżbieta Jablońska (Poland), Alla Georgieva (Bulgaria), Sejla
Kameric (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Lala Rascic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Anna
Jermolaeva (Russia), Kristina Inčiūraitė (Lithuania), Mare Tralla (Estonia), and Katerina
Sedá (Czech Republic).
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2) “Beyond Limits” (October 4-December 15, 2014) at the San Diego Art Institute, San
Diego, CA:
The exhibition explored the boundless confluences between art, life, and technology in a
post-global society.
For this exhibition, the San Diego Art Institute partnered with other museums that
participated in the Post-Global Biennale: National Museum in Poznan, Poland; Museo De
La Ciudad, Uruguay; Petah Tikva Museum in Israel; MareArticum – Baltic
Contemporary Art Biennale; National Museum in Szczecin, Poland; Nakanajo Biennale,
Japan; Kanaya Art Project, Japan; Sojo University and Sojo Gallery in Kunamoto, Japan;
the Kunsthalle Faust in Hanover, Germany; and Harvestworks Inc. NYC.
Artists: Anibal Catalan (Mexico City), Hector Canonge (NYC/Buenos Ayres), Charlie
Citron (NYC/Amsterdam), Cesar Cornejo (Lima/NYC), Teddy Cruz (Guatemala
City/San Diego), Blane de St. Croix (NYC), Heather Dewey-Hagborg (NYC), Ira
Eduardovna (Uzbekistan/Tel Aviv/NYC), Angela Freiberger (Rio de Janeiro/NYC),
Marlon Griffith (Kingston/Tokyo), Paulo Helguera (NYC/Mexico), Arun Kumar (New
Delhi), JaeWook Lee (Seoul, Pittsburgh, NYC), Mary Mattingly (NYC), Alex Villar (Rio
de Janeiro/New York City), Saul Melman (NYC), Margaret Noble (San Diego), Zachary
Royer Scholz (San Francisco), Miho Shimizu (Tokyo) and Oyvind Renberg
(Oslo/Berlin), Don Porcella (San Diego), and Adriana Varella (Rio de Janeiro/NY). The
exhibition included a conference at CECUT in Tijuana and a conference at the National
Museum in Poznan, Poland.
3) 3rd Mediations Biennial, Poznan, Poland (2012), as Curator of the Americas:
The biennial explored recent developments in the relationship between science,
technology, and the arts. The artists: Fernando Prats, Teresa Margolles, Alex Villar,
Regina Silveira, Paulo Bruscky, Oscar Muñoz, Julia Oldham, Lenora Malen, Nick Cave,
Parke Harrison, Andrea Galvani, Sang Nam Lee, Nick Hornby, Simon Lee and Algis
Kizys, Gabriela Golder, Adriana Varella & Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Ali Hossaini, Alice
Miceli, Adel Abdessemed, Alejandro Vidal, Kristin Lucas, and Adam Kalinowski.
See link for images of artists’ works: http://www.mediations.pl/en/program
The Venues and Partners of the 3rd Mediations Biennale:
Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu
Centrum Kultury ZAMEK
Muzeum Archidiecezjalne
Ośrodek Kultury Chrześcijańskiej, Galeria U Jezuitów
Była Synagoga
Park przy Starym Browarze
Lawica International Airport in Poznan
Funding: Ministry of Culture in Poland;
Partners: National Museum Poznan; Archdiocese Museum; Jesuit Gallery, Poznan
International Fair; Arts and Business Center – Stary Browar Poznan
Culture Center Zamek
Rail Vehicles Factory – H. Cegielski, Poznan
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Raczynski Library, Poznan
Art Stations Foundation by Grazyna Kulczyk
New Synagogue Foundation – Center for Dialogue, Poznan
SPOT, Poznan
University of Arts in Poznan
Wyzsza Szkola Nauk Humanistycznych I Dziennikarstwa
Adam Michiewicz University
Akademia Myzyczna im. J Paderewkskiego in Poznan
Galerie I inicjatywy Porozumienia Polska Biennale
Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan
Galeria EGO, Poznan
Galeria Piekary, Poznan
Galeria Szyperska, Poznan
Galeria Muzalewska, Poznan
Coty Gallery Poznan
Biennial Foundation
Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover, Germany
Space gallery Bratyslawa, Slovakia
Wielkopolski Zwiazek Pracodawcow prywatnych
4) “Innerspacing the City” (2011) at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY:
A multimedia exhibition focusing on emerging Korean art and exploring the relationship
between the body and the urban space. Participating artists: JaeWook Lee, HeeJin Park,
Na-Hyun, Kwan Taeck Park, Gyung Jin Shin, Jungiu An, and Charlie Hahn.
5) “Minimal Differences” (2010) at White Box Gallery, New York, NY, curated by
Denise Carvalho and Monika Szewczyk:
A multimedia exhibition and panel discussion focusing on the irony of identity in postsocialist countries after joining the European Union. The Artists: Zbigniew Libera, Ana
Molska, Marek Wasilewski, Pawel Althamer, Katarzyna Kozyra, Julita Wojcik, Martin
Zet, Jiri Cernicky, Azorro, R.E.P., Slaven Tolj, Joanna Malinowska and Christian
Tomaszewski, Vesna Bukovec, and Oskar Dawicki. Panelists included: Michal Kolecek,
Izabela Kopania, Jerzy Onuch, Jaroslaw Suchan, and Marek Bartelik. The symposium
was moderated by Dr. Denise Carvalho.
6) “Intangible Interferences” (2010) at Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY: 5)
A multimedia exhibition and panel discussion examining temporal/spatial dynamics of
resistance and depolarization in politics, economics, and language. Artists explore the
subtle forces of interference in situations of translation, geopolitics, religion, and ecology.
Artists: resingXruiz, Xurban Collective, Jesal Kapadia, Christopher K. Ho, Susan Jahoda,
Harout Simonian, and Grady Gerbracht.
7) “Bodies of Dispersion: Mechanisms of Distention” (2010) at Arsenal Gallery,
Bialystok, Poland:
A multimedia exhibition and panel discussion at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, Poland,
May 21 to June 20, 2010. The show focused on collective tendencies in contemporary art,
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and included a conference on the same theme. Artists: Alex Villar, Oyvind Renberg and
Miho Shimizu, Spurse Collective, Hakan Topal, eteam, Artur Zmijevski, and Elin
Wikstrom. Panelists: Jarowlaw Lubiak, Ginger Shulick, Marek Wasilewski, and Denise
Carvalho.
8) “A Part of No-Part” (2010) at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, curated by
Denise Carvalho and Michal Kolecek:
A multimedia exhibition and panel discussion examining recent trends in post-totalitarian
countries. Artists: Hubert Czerepok, Kuba Bakowski, Norman Leto, Josef Robakowski,
Milena Dopitova, Jacek Malinowski, Slaven Tojl, Jiri Kovanda. Zdena Koleckova, Jiri
Cernicki, Lukasz Gronowski, Piotr Żyliński, Pavel Mrkus, and Dario Solman.
9) “Preemptive Resistances: Reversed Strategies” (2009) at the Westport Arts Center,
CT:
An exhibition and panel discussion focusing on contemporary concepts in Latin
American art. Artists: Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Andrea Juan, César Cornejo, Vidal
Centeno, Alex Villar, Carlos Motta, Francisca Benitez, Jose Ruiz, and Augusto Zanela.
10) “Holy Holes, Absolute Stalls” (2008) at Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY:
A multimedia exhibition exploring intersections between religion, economics, and
politics. Artists: Jenny Marketou, Hadassa Goldvicht, Brent Wahl, Adriana Varella,
Neil Beloufa, Kwabena Slaughter, Grady Gerbracht, Angela Freiberger, Joseph
Bennett, Gearóid Dolan, Meirav Leshem, Tobaron Waxman, Dylan Mortiner, Kimberly
Simpson, Karin Giusti, and Marcia X.
11) “Infinitu et Contini: Repeated Histories, Reinvented Resistance” (2007) at Smack
Mellon, NY:
A multiplex video exhibition exploring the relation between militarization and politics
through a fictionalized interplay with multimedia. Artists: Janet Biggs, Barbara Pollack,
Jim Finn, Matthew Suib, Carlos Motta, Rona Yefman, Shalom Gorewitz, Kenn Bass,
Marian Ghani, Liz Magic Laser, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Maritza Molina, Eteam,
Michael Paul Britto, and Jamil Yamani. Reviewed by Afterimage, Art Papers, Time Out,
and The New Yorker.
See the video of the show: http://vimeo.com/7831018
12) “Raw” (2003) at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York:
A multimedia exhibition exploring the politics of non-places and between spaces in the
city and elsewhere. Artists: Birgit Ramsauer, neurotransmitter, Pia Lindman, Charlie
Citron, Alex Villar, Jenny Perlin, Sally Gutierrez, Grady Gerbracht, Katya Lund, and
others. Sponsor: The Andy Warhol Foundation. Reviewed by Brooklyn Rail and Time
Out.
13) “Hybrid Dwellings” (2001) at Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland:
A multimedia exhibition addressing notions of hybridity and nomadism.
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Artists: Jenny Marketou, Izabella Gustowska, Andrej Bakowski, Z. Warpechowski, Alex
Villar, Perry Bard, Sheila Batiste, Anne Naldrett, and others. Sponsors: Ministry of
Poland and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Received media coverage from local
television, radio, and newspapers. Reviewed by Springerin and Flash Art, and by the
Bialystok television and newspapers.
14) “Fairy-Tale” (1999) at the Center for Metamedia, Plasy, Czech Republic:
A symposium and multimedia exhibition exploring the relation between non-linear
narratives and new media. Participating artists: Erwin Redl, Alex Villar, Alison Cornyn,
Mark Shepard, Yuri Laderman, Monika Brandmeyer, Melissa Laing, Martin Zet, Michael
Crockford, Abdelali Dahrouch, Barbara Broughel, Jacques and Tony Roch, Stephanie
Syjuco, Medime Sovan Kumar, Toshihiro Yashiro, Mare Tralla, Redas Dirzys, Gail
Pickering, Dan Divine, and others. Sponsors: The Trust for Mutual Understanding, New
York Foundation for the Arts, Pro Helvetia – Ost West, Unesco Boursaries, Center for
Contemporary Art (Prague), the British Council, Open Society Fund Latvia (Estonia),
Soros Foundation, and the Ministry of Culture (Czech Republic). Reviewed by local
television, radio and newspapers, and by Umelek (Prague) and Sculpture.
Permanent Installations
I organized and curated two permanent Installations for the 3rd Mediations Biennale at the
Lawica International Airport of Poznan, Poland: Sang Nam Lee’s Algorithmic
Landscape, from 2012 (a 240 feet wide by 10 feet high enamel painting, and the largest
ever done by the artist), and Nick Hornby’s Old Shapes, New Brutality (2012), an
outdoor monumental sculpture based on a digital fragments of the architecture of Poznan.
I also wrote the texts added to the installations on site.
Public Projects and Events
“Lumen,” co-curated with Ginger Shulick at the Staten Island harbor, Staten Island, New
York, June 25, 2011. The participating artists from Dr. Carvalho’s curatorial direction
included Adriana Varella, Alex Villar, Tattfoo Tan, Grady Gerbracht, John Loggia,
Anarcho Art Lab collective, Nilton Maltz, Poetry readings by Marina Temkina.
Art Critic and Curator in Residence
2012: Critic Emeritus, Art Omi, NY.
2000: Critic in residence at Art Omi (New York). Former critics in residence at Art Omi
include Carlos Basualdo (curator of Philadelphia Museum of Art), Rafael Rubinstein
(former editor of Art in America), Franklin Sirmans (former editor of Flash Art), Robert
Morgan (art critic and scholar), and Lily Wei (art critic and independent curator).
Directorial Residency Projects
Directed and organized “The Artist Circuit” (2010-2014) A partnership residency project
to bring Eastern European artists every summer to the international artists residency, Art
Omi, in NY. Sponsored by Adam Mickiewicz Institute, in Poland.
Board Memberships and Community Service
Member of the Board of Directors at Art Omi International Residency, Ghent, NY.
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Member of the Curatorial Board at the Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky.
Judge for artists’ organizations and foundations, such as Percent for the Arts, Smack
Mellon, The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The Staten Island Arts Council, etc.
Panel Discussions, Lectures, Symposia
Symposium: “Cruzamentos: Art from Brazil”
Dr. Carvalho directed and moderated the panel “Landscaping the Visible,” organized as
part of the Graduate Seminar on 21st-Century Brazilian Contemporary Art and Film. The
panel was part of the symposium of “Cruzamentos: Art from Brazil,” organized by the
Wexner Center for the Arts and sponsored by the Department of Art History at the Ohio
State University. Panel’s date: March 26, 2014. The graduate seminar, taught by Dr.
Carvalho, was held in the Spring of 2014 at the Department of Art History at OSU.
Lecture: “Brazilian Art in the 21st Century: Rethinking Ideas and Practices in the Hybrid
Context,” at the Future Faculty Career Exploration Program 2013, Rochester Institute of
Technology, September 2013.
• Symposium: “On the Limits, Blind Spots, and Dark Fields of Large-Scale Exhibitions
of Contemporary Art,” as an event connected to the 3rd Mediations Biennale in
Poznan, The conferences were held at Centrum Kultury Zamek Poznan and
Concordia Design, Poznan, on September 15 and 16, 2012. Panelists included the
curators of the biennale, Denise Carvalho (Brazil/USA), Friedhelm Mennekes
(Germany), Fumio Nanjo (Japan), and Tomasz Wendland (Poland); artists Alex
Villar (Brazil), Lenore Malen (USA), Heather Dewey Hagborg (USA), Piotr
Kurka (Poland), Grzegorz Klaman (Poland) among others; theoreticians Hyun
Jeung Kim (Korea), Paz Moreno Feliu (Spain), Shaheen Merali (Great Britain),
Simon Morley (Great Britain/Korea), and Jaroslaw Lubiak (Museum Sztuki Lodz;
Poland); and art critics Jörg Scheller (Die Zeit, Frieze; Switzerland), Juraj Carny
(AICA, Flash Art; South Korea), Samuel Herzog (Neue Zürcher Zeitung; Czech
Republic), Hyun Jeung Kim (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art; South Korea),
Gabriela Mafort (Globonews, Brazil), Saul Ostrow (Art in America, BOMB,
Sculpture; US), Hanno Rauterberg (Die Zeit, Germany), Smadar Sheffi (Haaretz
Magazine, IL), Noemi Smolik (Art Forum, Germany), and Karolina Staszak
(Arteon magazine, Poland). Symposium was organized by Dr. Marek Wasilewski,
Director of the Ph.D. Program at the University of Fine Arts in Poznan and
Mediations Biennale. The panel also produced a book, The Unknown as We Know
It, edited by Marek Wasilewski, published by the University of Fine Arts in
Poznan, Faculty of Multimedia Communications, and Biennale Foundation.
Panel: “Intangible Interferences” at Momenta Art, NY, held September 17, 2010.
Panelists were Denise Carvalho, Grady Gerbracht, Susan Jahoda, and Jesal Kapadia.
Panel: “Minimal Differences” at White Box Gallery, NYC, held September 16, 2010. The
panel included Director of the Sztuki Museum in Lodz, Jaroslaw Suchan; the President of
AICA NY, Marek Bartelik; Marek Wasilewski, art critic, curator and Director of the
Ph.D. Program in New Media in the University of Fine Arts in Poznan; Michal Kolecek,
Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design at J. E. Purkyně University in the Czech Republic;
and art historian Isabela Kopania; moderated by Dr. Denise Carvalho.
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Lecture on curatorial work at the Staten Island Museum, June 22, 2010.
Panel: “Bodies of Dispersion” at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, Poland; May 22, 2010.
Panel: “Contemporary Art in the Third Space” at ATOA (Artists Talk on Art), NYC;
May 17, 2010. Other panelists included Ginger Shulick, Spurse Collective, Denise
Carvalho, and others.
Panel: “A Part of No-Part” at the Chelsea Museum of Art, NY; May 7, 2010. The panel
included the curators, Michal Kolecek and Denise Carvalho and the artists Milena
Dopitova, Jiri Cernicky, Pavel Mrkus, and Zdena Koleckova.
Lecture: “Latin American Photography” at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; April 2010
Panel: “Preemptive Resistances” at the Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT; Feb 12
2009. Panelists: Denise Carvalho and Jose Ruiz.
Lecture: “New Directions” at Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia; September 2008.
Curatorial Lecture by Denise Carvalho, “Holy Holes: Absolute Stalls” at the Dumbo Arts
Center, Brooklyn, NY; Jul 15 2008.
Curatorial Lecture: “Infinitu et Contini” at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Nov 17 2007.
Symposium: “Brazilian Interventionist Art in the Midst of Mass Culture: Challenging?
Negotiating? Or Infiltrating?” as part of the International Symposium on Art and Society
at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; February 2007.
Lecture: “The Body as Agent for Social Change,” as part of the Cultural Studies
Colloquium at University of California, Davis; May 2002.
Lecture: “Cinema Novo” at the Humanities Institute at University of California, Davis;
November 2001.
Panel: “Hybrid Dwellings” panel, at Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland; April 6, 2001.
Lecture: “Media and Arts in Dialogue,” Begane Grond, Utrecht, Netherlands. Title of
Paper: “Misunderstandings.” August 2000.
Symposium: “Fairy-Tale,” Center for Metamedia Czech Republic Sep 1-30 1999.
Lecture: “Neoconcretism,” Mont Claire University, New Jersey; 1998
Seminars in Other Disciplines
Fellow in Fiction at the Writers’ Institute, Graduate Center, CUNY 2012-2013
Art Critic and Curator in Residence
2012: Critic Emeritus, Art Omi, NY.
2000: Critic in residence at Art Omi (New York). I was also a member of the board of
directors. Former critics in residence at Art Omi include Carlos Basualdo (curator of
Philadelphia Museum of Art), Rafael Rubinstein (former editor of Art in America),
Franklin Sirmans (former editor of Flash Art), Robert Morgan (art critic and scholar), and
Lily Wei (art critic and independent curator).
Directorial Residency Projects
Directed and organized “The Artist Circuit” (2010-2014), sponsored by the A
partnership residency project to bring Eastern European artists every summer to the
international artists residency, Art Omi, in NY. Sponsored by Adam Mickiewicz
Institute, in Poland.
Published Essays
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“The Unknown as we Know it,” a book published by the University of Fine Arts in
Poznan and by the Mediations Biennale in Poznan.
“The Unknown,” catalogue essay for the Third Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland,
2012. Published by Mediations Biennale Foundation, 2012.
“Dis-Identify Yourself, Please,” catalogue essay for “Hotel de Inmigrantes:
Cosmopolitan Stranger,” held at the Open University of Diversity at Hasselt, Belgium.
The symposium was organized in connection to Manifesta 9 in Belgium in Genk,
Limburg, Belgium. August 2012.
“Art as Open Concept: The Mechanics and Poetics of Interplay in the Work of Adam
Kalinowski” published in Polish and English by Kwartalnik journal in 2013.
“Lost in Translation: The Clay Art of Peter Jones,” Ceramics, Art and Perception, Issue
83, 2011.
“Yoshikawa Masamichi: Envisioning the Perfect Path,” Ceramics Art and Perception,
Issue 81, 2010, pp. 70-73.
“Cidadania Molecular: O Papel da Cultura no Projeto Cantagalo,” (“Molecular
Citizenship: The Role of Culture in the Project Cantagalo”); book of the conference at the
São Paulo Biennial of Architecture, in November 2011.
Biographies on Cildo Meireles, Lygia Clark, Sebastião Salgado, Rivane
Neuenschwander, and Ernesto Neto for Grove Contemporary Art, published by Oxford
University Press, December 2009.
Maritza Molina: A World in Reverse, Afterimage, February/March, 2008
Brazilian Interventionist Art …Or Infiltrating? The International Journal of the Arts in Society,
2007.
Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé at Thomas Erben, NKA, Journal of Contemporary African
Art, V 13/14, Spr/Sum 2001
Odili Donald Odita, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall/Winter 2000
Number 11/12 pp. 18-23.
“A Memory Palace: Out of Nowhere" New Observations, spring 99, Vol. 121, pp. 34-35.
Published Articles
“The Architectonics of Aesthetic Resistance in the Work of Cesar Cornejo,” Art Nexus,
Nov. 2013.
“Rivane Neuenschwander” at The New Museum, Art Nexus, 2010.
“Marta Minujin” at Americas Society, Art Nexus, No. 77, Vol 9, 2010, pp. 109-110.
“Priscila de Carvalho” at the Jersey City Museum, Art Nexus, No. 74, Vo. 8, year 2009.
“Allora & Calzadilla” at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Art Nexus, No. 73, Vol. 8, year
2009.
“Sang Name Lee” at PKM Gallery, Art in America, November 2008
“Jacques Roch” at Kim Foster Gallery, Art in America, November 2008
“Carlos Motta” at Art Nexus, October 2009.
“Robert C. Morgan: Through the artist’s frame of mind” at Front Gallery, NY, Art in
America, June 2008.
“Cavellini: The Man as his own Art,” at Florence Lynch Gallery, M Magazine, May
2008.
“Hugo Bastidas” at Nohra Haime, Art in America, March 2008
“Cuban Contemporary Sculpture,” Sculpture, March 2008
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“The S-Files” at the Museo del Barrio, Flash Art, November 2007
“Killing Time” at Exit Art, Flash Art, October 2007
"Angela Freiberger," Focus, Sculpture, May 2005.
"Robin Hill," Focus, Sculpture, September 2005.
"Panorama 2004," MAM Sao Paulo, Brazil, curated by Gerardo Mosquera, Art Papers,
November 2004.
"Brazilian art" at the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Flash Art, October
2004.
"Specificity," pick of the month in New York Arts, New York Arts, May 2003;
"Nova Orlandia, Rio de Janeiro," Focus, Sculpture, May 2002.
"Nova Orlandia: the Temporary Occupation of a House," Group Shows, Flash Art,
October 2002.
"Cildo Meireles at the New Museum," Sculpture, December 2000.
"Invisible Abstractions," Flash Art, Nov. 1999.
"CyberArts Festival," Spotlight, Flash Art, Summer 1999.
"Reviews: Boston Museum of Fine Arts - May Stevens," Flash Art, summer 1999.
"CyberArts Festival - an Overview," Sculpture, summer 1999.
"Reviews: Rio de Janeiro - Valeria Costa Pinto," Flash Art, Mar/April 1999 Vol. XXXII,
pp. 122-123.
"An Overview of the Cultural Spaces in Rio de Janeiro," Sculpture, March 1999, Vol. 18
No 2, pp. 8-9.
"XXIV São Paulo Biennial: Interview with Paulo Herkenhoff, Flash Art, October 1998,
pp. 75-76.
"Simon Lee at Sculpture Center," Review, NY, October 1998.
"Ouverture: Jose Gabriel Fernandez," Flash Art International, Italy, summer 1998, p. 13.
"Carol Symanski," in Reviews, Flash Art International, summer 1998, pp. 139-140.
"Roberts & Weaver," Review Magazine, NY, April 1998.
"Yayoi Kusama, at Robert Miller," Cover, NY, February 1997.
“Alex Villar: Spaciously Incorrect, Questioning the Rhetoric of the Banal," Urban
Desires, NY, May 1997.
"Michele Blondel: Lady with a Unicorn," at Elga Wimmer Gallery, Review Magazine,
NY, Nov1997.
“Jac Leirner's Metaphor of the Transitory," Cover, NY, summer 1997.
"Out of Nowhere/Miguel Rio Branco," Urban Desires, NY, Nov. 97.
"Plasmorphica - Aziz + Cucher," Review, NY, October 97
"Jim Toia and David Geiser," at Kim Foster Gallery, Review, NY, Oct 97.
"Drawn + Quartered" at Elga Wimmer, Review, NY, September 1997.
"Ana Mendieta, Body Imprints and Transformations 1972-74" at Gallery Lelong, Review,
NY, Dec. 1997.
Published Catalogue Essays
Exhibition Cruzamentos: Art from Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, January 31 to
March 20, 2014.
“Trans,” catalogue of the exhibition of Adriana Varella, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
2010.
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“Upstream: The Dérive within the Immersion” catalogue essay, exhibition of artists
Oyvind Renberg and Miho Shimizu at the Hordaland Kunstsenter, October and
November 2010.
“Minimal Differences” catalogue essay, exhibition and panel discussion at White Box,
Ltd., NYC, September and October 2010.
“Bodies of Dispersion: Mechanisms of Distention” catalogue essay, exhibition and panel
discussion at Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland, May/June 2010.
“A Part of No-Part” catalogue essay, exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, May 6
to July 14, 2010.
“Adriana Varella: Trans” catalogue essay of her solo exhibition at Oi Futuro, May/une
2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Organs without Bodies,” catalogue from the exhibition of the work of Angela
Freiberger, at Frederico Seve Gallery, Latin Collector, from September to November
2009.
“Preemptive Resistances: Critical Pointers in Latin American Art,” catalogue of
exhibition at the Westport Arts Center, January to March 2009.
“Flying Dream,” brochure of the exhibition of Jacques and Tony Roch at Side Show
Gallery, in Williamsburg, NY, from June 6 to 28, 2009.
“Linda van Boven” photography and mixed media installation, Florence Lynch Gallery,
NY, September 2008.
"Janet Echelman," Sculpture, catalogue of her exhibition at Florence Lynch Gallery,
New York City, from December to January 2002, and for the public
installation Art Sculpture Park, Art Basel Miami Beach, December 5-8, 2002.
"Valéria Costa Pinto: Percepts," catalogue of the exhibition, Galeria Marcia Barroso do
Amaral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19 to April 15, 2002.
"Izabella Gustowska," catalogue of the exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art,
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw June 29 to August 26, 2001, curated by Ryszard W.
Kluszczynski.
"Dorothy Arnold," catalogue of the exhibition at the Florence Lynch Gallery, in NYC,
2001.
"Hybrid Dwellings," catalogue of the exhibition, Arsenal Gallery, the National Gallery of
Bialystok, Poland, April 6 to May 13, 2001, curated by Denise Carvalho Bergstrom.
"Frank Bramblett's Paintings: Abstracted Narratives in the Practice of Storytelling,"
catalogue of the exhibition The Levy Gallery Traveling Exhibition Series, Levy Gallery,
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 17 to Jan. 23, 2001.
"Karina El Azem, Premios Costantini 2000," Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos
Aires, Presidencia de la Nacion, Secretaria de Cultura y Comunicacion, Artes Graficas
Corin Luna S.A. 2000.
"José Morales: Drawings." Brochure of the exhibition at Lemmerman Gallery, New
Jersey City University, from September 11 to November 3, 2000.
"Fairy-Tales," catalogue of the exhibition and symposium curated and organized by
Denise Carvalho Bergstrom in collaboration with the Center for Metamedia, Plasy, Czech
Republic, from September 1 to October 1, 1999, sponsored by the New York Foundation
for the Arts and by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, NYC.
Fellowships, Awards and Honors
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2013-2014 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
2011 - Prêmio Jabutí (Jabuti Prize) in literature for the book O Galo Cantou. Carvalho
contributed with the essay “Cidadania Molecular: O Papel da Cultura no Projeto
Cantagalo,” (Molecular Citizenship: The Role of Culture in the Project Cantagalo),
November 2011.
2009 – Grant from Trust for Mutual Understanding for project exhibition and conference
“Minimal Differences” and “Bodies of Dispersion” to be held in 2010 and 2011.
2002 - Art History Department, UCDavis Opportunity Fellowship
2002 - Consortium for Women and Research, UC Davis, Traveling Award
2001 - Internal Traveling Award - Art History Department - UC Davis
2001 - GOF Fellowship, Art History Department, UC Davis
2001 - Art History Department, UC Davis Opportunity Fellowship
1999 – Grant from Trust for Mutual Understanding award for exhibition Fairy-Tale in
the Czech Republic
1995 - The Organization of Independent Artists. Merit Award by Ivan Karp
1993 - Merit awards for contributing to the Latin American artistic presence in New
York, from the University of Latin American and Caribbean Studies in Brasília, Brazil,
and from the Venezuelan Center in NY
1990 - Second Prize (painting) Fifth International Competition, Pavilion of the Biennial
of São Paulo, Brazil. President of the Jury: Ignes de Assis Ribeiro
1965 - First Prize Drawing, National fellowship for young artists, sponsored by Ivan
Serpa, one of the precursors of Neoconcretism in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Teaching Experience
New Jersey City University, full time faculty in Art History, Department of Art
Fall and Spring 2014/2015
School of Visual Arts, Adjunct Professor, Department of Visual and Critical Studies
Fall 2014
Ohio State University, Department of Art History, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Seminar: 21st-Century Brazilian Art and Film
Spring 2014
School of Visual Arts, Adjunct Professor of Art History
Art of the Pre-Modernist World (Honors Class)
Modern and Contemporary Art
New Jersey City University, Adjunct Professor of Art History
Art & Politics, Art 205
Contemporary Art, Art 106
Art & Politics, Art 205
Contemporary Art, Art 106
Class title: History of Philosophy, Art 202, undergraduate
Class title: World Art II, undergraduate (2 sections)
Class title: Contemporary Art, undergraduate
Class title: History of Spatial Illusion, graduate
Class title: Contemporary Art, undergraduate
Class title: History of Spatial Illusion, graduate
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Fall 2012
Spring 2013
2008-2013
Fall 2013
Fall 2013
Spring 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2012
Fall 2012
Spring 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Fall 2010
Class title: Contemporary Art 30, undergraduate
Class title: Contemporary Art 29, undergraduate
Class title: Contemporary Art 28, undergraduate
Class title: History of Spatial Illusion, graduate
Class title: World Art I, undergraduate
Class title: Contemporary Art, undergraduate
Class title: World Art I, undergraduate
Spring 2010
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Assistant Professor in Art Theory and Criticism, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the
Visual Art, 2008-2012
Seminar 901.3-Directed Reading I- From Plato to Kristeva
Fall 2011
Director of Independent Studies Program, IDSVA
2008-2012
Directed 1 Independent Studies and 2 dissertations
Fall 2011
Director of Independent Studies Program, IDSVA
2008-2012
Directing 8 Ph.D. students and one dissertation- doctoral
2008-2010
Chair Independent Studies Program, IDSVA
2009-2010
Seminar III, Course # 703, The Subject and Object of Art Ph.D.
Spring 2010
Independent Studies Director (8 doctoral students)
Spring 2010
Independent Studies Director (6 independent studies)
Fall 2009
Seminar title: Art & Theory Revisited Ph.D. level
Fall 2009
Seminar title: Seminar I, Part 2: Kant, Hegel, Marx & Freud, Ph.D. Sum 2009
Seminar title: Seminar in Theory and Criticism
Fall 2008
Independent Studies Director (six independent studies), Ph.D. I.S.
Fall 2008
Seminar title: Seminar on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ph.D. seminar
Sum 2008
Independent Studies Director (four independent studies)
Spring 2008
Adjunct Professor Art History, William Patterson State University
2008-2009
Class title: Approaches to Modern Art (ARTH 104-03), undergrad Spring 2009
Class title: Approaches to Modern Art (ARTH 104-60), undergrad Spring 2009
Class title- Approaches to Modern Art (ARTH 104-04), undergrad Fall 2008
Associate Adjunct Professor Art History, College of Staten Island, CUNY Spr 08-Fall09
Department of Performing and Creative Arts
Class title: Art History Survey, Prehistory to Cont, undergraduate, 2 sessions
Associate Professor in Art Theory, Pratt Institute, Depart of Art
Class title: Theories of the Avant Garde, graduate
Fall 2007
Adjunct Professor in Art History at Humboldt State University
2006-2007
Department of Art, Associate Professor, one-year appointment
Class title: Survey in Art History, Modern and Contemporary Art: lower division
Class title: Public Art since the 1960s: upper division
Class title: Women Artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries: upper division
Class title: Body and Performance Art: upper division
Class title: Contemporary Art Theory: upper division
Class title: Latin American Art, Modern and Contemporary: lower division
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Class title: Seminar on the work of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta: seniors only
Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University
2005-2006
Department of Women Studies
Class title: Women, Politics, and Citizenship: with 110 students
Class title: Women, Gender, and Communities: with 35 students
Adjunct Professor, Women Studies, San Francisco State University
2003-2005
Class title: Women, Politics, and Citizenship: with 110 students and 1 T.A.
Class title: Women as Creative Agents: with 48 students and 1 T.A.
Adjunct Professor of Art History, Columbia College, CA (summer)
Course: Modern and Contemporary Art.
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Summer 2002