Valéria Piccoli

Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo

July–August 2017

Valéria Piccoli is Chief Curator at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of São Paulo on 19th and early 20th century Brazilian art. Piccoli has collaborated on international projects such as Terra Brasilis (Brussels, 2011) and is co-curator of Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic (Toronto/Bentonville/São Paulo, 2015-2016), together with Georgiana Uhlyarik and Peter John Brownlee. Her research at Clark will focus on how museums’ displays of their collections can incorporate recent debates on post-colonialism, gender and race, among other contemporary issues.