Adele NelsonAdele Nelson is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also associate director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS). She received her BA in Portuguse and Brazilian Studies and Art Semiotics from Brown University and her MA and PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art of Latin America, with a focus on the postwar and contemporary art of Brazil. She is the author of Jac Leirner in Conversation with Adele Nelson (Fundación Cisneros, 2011), which was translated into Portuguese by Cosac Naify in 2013. Her articles have been published in Art Journal and ARTMargins and national and international museum publications, including Lygia Clark: Painting as an Experimental Field (2020), Mário Pedrosa: De la naturaleza afetiva de la forma (2017), Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium (2016), Mário Pedrosa: Primary Documents (2015). Nelson is co-organizing, with MacKenzie Stevens, the exhibition Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil for the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin in fall 2021. The project has received the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts grant. She also contributed to the catalog and helped to organize the award-winning exhibition Joan Miró Painting and Anti-Painting, 1927-1937 (MoMA, 2008). Her current book project, Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil, studies how the practice and theory of abstract art developed in Brazil in the 1940s and 1950s in close relation to new modern art institutions. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright US Scholar Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read More Read Less