Fernanda Lopes

Fernanda Lopes is assistant curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. She received her MA and her PhD in art history and criticism from the School of Fine Arts at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She is coeditor (with Aristoteles A. Predebon) of Francisco Bittencourt: Arte-Dinamite (2016) as well as author of Área experimental: lugar, espaço e dimensão do experimental na arte brasileira dos anos 1970 (2012) and “Éramos o time do Rei”—A Experiência Rex (2006). Her curating experience includes the Special Room of the Rex Group at the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010). In 2017 she received the Brazilian Art Critic Association’s Maria Eugênia Franco Prize for Best Exhibition Curatorship for the exhibition In a frenzy—An overview of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro Collection at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (2016).