Fernanda Pitta

Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo

July–August 2017

Fernanda Pitta is Senior Curator at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and Lecturer in the History of Art at the Escola da Cidade, in São Paulo. Her research interests focus primarily on the reception of realist and naturalist trends in Brazilian painting in the second half of the nineteenth century and how this reception impacted the construction of a paradigm of national art. She also writes regularly on contemporary art and contributes to scholarly journals on Brazilian art and art historiography. Her latest curatorial project was “In the place itself: an anthology of Ana Maria Tavares’ work”, at Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo (2016-2017) which was awarded the APCA Prize of Best Retrospective of 2016. At the Clark, she will be coordinating a Summer Collaborative Working Group formed by Laercio Redondo, Birger Lipinski, Kaira Cabañas and Valeria Piccoli developing a research on narrative models for long-term exhibitions of historical art collections, and collaborating with a project of a forthcoming exhibition of Redondo´s work.