Claudia SaldanhaClaudia 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 a 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). Read More Read Less