Claudia Saldanha

Claudia Saldanha is the director of Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, an institution dedicated to contemporary art. She has a PhD degree in visual arts from UERJ and an MFA degree from Pratt Institute, New York, and teaches art history at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She also used to be the director of the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (2008–2014), the Division of Theory and Research at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (2003–2005), and the Visual Arts Division at RioArte (1993–2005) and organized many notable exhibitions, including: Alviceleste, a survey of performance artist Márcia X; Paulo Roberto Leal—Espaços Articulados, at Paço Imperial (2015); Paulo Werneck—Muralista Brasileiro at the Museu de Arte Moderna de Recife and the Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2014); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and at Caixa Cultural de Brasília (2011); Da Matéria Nasce a Forma—Paulo Roberto Leal at Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói (2007); Abrigo Poético—Diálogos com Lygia Clark, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói (2006); Márcia X., at Galerie Weisser Elephant, Berlin (2006); Márcia X. Revista, at Paço Imperial (2005); Insertae Sedis: José Rufino, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói (2005).