1986, lives and works at São Paulo, Brazil

Hélio Menezes, born in Salvador – Bahia, Brazil (1986), is an anthropologist, curator, and researcher. He has bachelor’s degrees in International Relations (2008) and in Social Sciences (2013), a master’s degree in Social Anthropology (2017) and is currently a doctoral candidate in that field, all at the University of São Paulo (USP). He is also an Affiliated Scholar at Princeton University’s BrazilLab, and has received scholarships to study at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po Paris, 2007) and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, 2013). He is the current Contemporary Art curator of the São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP). He has worked as an international coordinator at the World Social Forum in Belém (2009), Dakar (2011) and Tunis (2013). He has published essays in catalogues such as: Afro-Atlantic Histories (vols. 1 and 2); the 10th Berlin Bienalle for Contemporary Art catalogue; Prison to prison: an intimate story between two architectures (Venice Bienal), among other publications. His recent works include the installation “New Republic” (2019), in partnership with Wolff Architects (Cape Town) for the 12th Architecture Bienal in São Paulo; and curatorship of the exhibitions “Voices against racism” (São Paulo, 2020); “The discovery of what it means to be Brazilian” (Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago, 2020) and Afro-Atlantic Histories (MASP/Instituto Tomie Ohtake – São Paulo, 2018).

Invited curator Pivô Research Cycle III.