SAHA Talks: Amanda Carneiro

SAHA Curatorial Program guest Amanda Carneiro will give a talk at SAHA Studio, on April 24 at 5 pm. The talk will take a closer look at MASP ’s program through the lens of Histories, a long-term curatorial framework that has shaped the museum’s exhibitions, collection displays, publications, and public programs in recent years. Rather than proposing a single, stable narrative, this approach understands history as plural, disputed, and open to revision. Through this framework, MASP has sought to create critical dialogues between past and present, and to bring into view artistic practices and historical experiences that have often been marginalized within canonical art history. The presentation will offer an overview of this curatorial methodology, with particular attention to how the Histories program has enabled a rethinking of the museum as a space for polyphonic narratives, social debate, and epistemic transformation.

About Amanda Carneiro:
Amanda Carneiro has been a curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) since 2018 and was Artistic Organizer of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024), Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. At MASP, Carneiro has curated and co-curated a wide range of exhibitions and edited catalogs devoted to modern and contemporary art, many of them developed in collaboration with national and international institutions such as The Whitworth, the American Folk Art Museum, Museo del Chopo, Itaú Cultural, and the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg. Her recent projects include Santiago Yahuarcani: The Beginning of Knowledge (2026), Hulda Guzmán: Miracle Fruits (2025), Serigrafistas Queer: Freedom for Sensibilities (2024), and Video Room: Kang Seung Lee (2024). She holds a BA and an MA in Social History from the University of São Paulo and is currently a PhD candidate in the same field. She was co-editor of Afterall Journal (2020-25), where she now serves on the editorial board.