Mariana Gazioli Leme
São Caetano do Sul, SP, Brazil, 1987
[Orcid]
Education
Art History PhD (2023-present), Universidade de São Paulo - USP
Curating as care: ways of moving through contemporary art
Under the supervision of Dr Domingos Tadeu Chiarelli, Full Professor
Art History MA (2019-2021), Universidade de São Paulo - USP
Marie Laurencin and the theater of (white) femininity within French painting
Under the supervision of Dr Domingos Tadeu Chiarelli, Full Professor
Visual Arts BA (2010-2016), Universidade de São Paulo - USP
Art, cooking and notes for a history of taste
Under the supervision of Dr Sônia Salsztein Goldberg, Full Professor
Complementary Education
Museum Objects as Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 2022
Rijksmuseum and Bard Graduate Center, Amsterdam, 80 hours
Black Voices in Anthropology, 2021
Unilab, Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia
Afro-Brasileira, Ceará, 22 hours
Accessibility in Cultural Projects, 2021
Casa Mário de Andrade, São Paulo, 8 hours
Decolonized narratives, 2018
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 12 hours
Art Histories: The Baroque in Europe and in Latin America, 2016
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 12 hours
Critical Studies in Art: Aesthetics and Colonialism, 2016
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 12 hours
Commercial Trades and Food taboos in the Mediterranean, 2015
Centro Universitário Mariantonia, São Paulo, 16 hours
Curatorial Residencies
bab, Búzios, RJ, 2024
Mirante Xique Xique, 2022
Igatu, Bahia, Brazil
Casa Tato 5, 2021-22
Galeria Tato, São Paulo, Brazil
Grants
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal em Nível Superior (CAPES), 2020-21
Language Skills
Brazilian Portuguese: native
English: reading, writing and speaking C2
French: reading C2, writing and speaking B1
Spanish: reading C1, writing and speaking B1
Work Experience
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Editorial Assistant to the 35th Bienal de São Paulo exhibition
choreographies of the impossible, 2023
Editorial Assistant to the 34th Bienal de São Paulo exhibition
Though it’s Dark, Still I Sing, 2021
Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de São Paulo
Teaching Assistant Intern, 2020
Under the supervision of Dr Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni
Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP)
Assistant Curator, 2015-2019
Editora 34 (publishing house)
Researcher, 2010-2014
Exhibitions
Curated
Desenhos são como sementes debaixo de tudo [Drawings are Like Seeds Underneath Everything], 2024
Nydia Negromonte
Centro Cultural Unimed-BH Minas
Nydia Negromonte
Centro Cultural Unimed-BH Minas
Interlúdio [Interlude], 2024
WG galeria, São Paulo
Renata Egreja: uma crônica mole [A Soft Chronicle], 2023
Lume gallery, São Paulo
Trânsito-tecido [Transit-tissue], 2023
Group exhibition of 19 contemporary Brazilian artists
Galpão 556, São Paulo
A trama do limo [The Slime Web/Plot], 2022
artists Bruno Ferreira and Eva Castiel
Mário de Andrade Library, São Paulo
Camadas [Layers], 2022
Group exhibition of 14 contemporary Brazilian artists
Casa Tato, São Paulo
Os encontros, as contingências [The Encounters, The Contingencies], 2021
Group exhibition of 14 contemporary Brazilian artists
Casa Tato, São Paulo
Women’s Histories: Artists Before 1900, 2019
with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and Julia Bryan-Wilson
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, MASP
Pedro Figari: African Nostalgias, 2018
with Pablo Thiago Rocca
Museu de Arte de São Paulo and Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo
Arranjos [Arrangements], 2016-2017 (two editions)
with the artists Mano Penalva, Sergio Pinzón and Yuli Yamagata
SAO Espaço de Arte, São Paulo
Curatorial assistance
Toulouse-Lautrec in Red, MASP, 2017
curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Luciano Migliaccio
Research
Histories of Childhood, MASP, 2016
curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Fernando Oliva and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Art in Fashion: the MASP Rhodia Collection, MASP, 2015
curated by Tomás Toledo and Patricia Carta
Books and Publications
Edited Books
Boca do estômago [Pit of the Stomach], 2022
with Julia Cavazzini, in Portuguese
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, ISBN 978-658934223
Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories, 2019
with Adriano Pedrosa and Isabella Rjeille
in Portuguese and English
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, ISBN 978-8531000751
Pedro Figari: African Nostalgias, 2018
in Portuguese, English and Spanish
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, ISBN 978-8531000614
Book Chapters
“The Anti-Exoticism of Odilla Mestriner” (to be published)
“Color of Rammed Earth: Instability and Love in the Work of Paula Siebra”
Caderno, artist’s book, 2022
“Women’s Histories: Artists Before 1900”
Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories, MASP, 2019
“Pedro Figari: African Nostalgias”
Pedro Figari: African Nostalgias, MASP, 2018
“Biographical Note: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec”
Toulouse-Lautrec in Red, MASP, 2017
Press Articles
“Adrián Balseca: a Museum of Commodities”
MADRAzine, Lisbon, 2022
“Políticas do verniz” [The Politics of the Varnish]
Revista Rosa, São Paulo, 2022
“A History of Color (Or Why Art Will Not Save Us in Times of a Pandemic)”
Terremoto, Mexico City, 2020
“Imagens de mercados: tensões entre metrópole e colônia” [Images of Markets: Tensionsbetween the Colony and the Mainland]
seLecT, São Paulo, 2020
“Coronaviagem” [Coronatravel], seLecT, São Paulo, 2020
Papers
“Versailles Revival (1873-1937)”, Journal of Curatorial Studies
Exhibition review, Issue 10.2, doi 10.1386/jcs_00047_7, 2021
“Entre modernismo e tradição: notas sobre a recepção da obra de Marie Laurencin no Brasil e na França” [Between modernism and tradition: notes on Marie Laurencin’s recognition in Brazil and in France]
with Letícia Asfora Falabella Leme, Revista de História da Arte e da Cultura, Unicamp, doi 10.20396/rhac.v2i1.15115, 2021
“A arte de passear: Marie Laurencin, a pintura das festas galantes e o colapso da ideia de civilização”, II Seminar Women in History, in Literature and in the Arts, Curitiba: Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), 2020
Exhibition Texts
“Kika Goldstein: a opacidade das paisagens”
[Kika Goldstein: The Opacity of the Landscapes]
Arte Fasam gallery, Belo Horizonte, 2022
“Satin Nights”, Paula Siebra
Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, 2022
“Mano Penalva’s Costales, landscapes in transit”
Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels, 2022
“Judy Chicago”, Judy Chicago & Leda Catunda
Fortes d’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, 2022
“Noêmia Mourão”, 2019
Yo soy mi propia musa. Pintoras latinoamericanas de entreguerras
Gloria Cortes Aliága (ed.), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Paula Trope” and “Pedro Figari”
MASP Pocket with MCA Chicago
Olivia Ardui and Adriano Pedrosa (eds.), MASP, 2019
Translations to Portuguese
“Beyond Repair: Regarding torture at the Berlin Biennale”, by Rijin Sahakian
Revista Rosa, online, 2022
“All the Devils Are Here – How the visual history of the Haitian Revolution misrepresents
Black suffering and death”, by Marlene L. Daut
with Marcos Vinícius Lustosa Queiróz, Arte e Ensaios magazine, 2022
“Trash Talk: On Translating Garbage”, by Lina Mounzer
Tonel Magazine, online, 2021
Iconographic Research
Amaral, Aracy (2013), Arte e meio artístico: Entre a feijoada e o x-burguer.
São Paulo: Editora 34. ISBN 978-8573265194
Bosi, Alfredo (2013), Entre a Literatura e a história.
São Paulo: Editora 34. ISBN 978-8573265323
Batista, Marta Rossetti (2012), Os artistas brasileiros na Escola de Paris: anos 1920.
São Paulo: Editora 34. ISBN 978-8573264920
Frésca, Camila (2009), Música nas montanhas: 40 anos do Festival de Inverno de
Campos do Jordão. São Paulo: Editora Santa Marcelina. ISBN 978-88562745003
EVENTS
Seminars
Women in History, in Literature and in the Arts: Between Practices and Representations
Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR, november 11-14, 2019
Presentation “Marie Laurencin and the painting of the fêtes galantes”
Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, aril 5, 2019
Moderation of the debate with professors Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni,
Georgina Gluzman, and curator Kanitra Fletcher
Feminist Histories, Radical Women
Museu de Arte de São Paulo and Pinacoteca do Estado, november 12, 2018
Moderation of the debate with artist Judy Chicago and curator Maura Reilly
Lectures and courses
"Artes visuais e os espaços de poder" [Visual Arts and the Spaces of Power]
Centro de Pesquisa e Formação Sesc, São Paulo, 2023
"ANNA: olhares e conversações" [ANNA: regards and conversations]
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2022
"Feminismos na História da Arte: estudos de caso" [Feminisms in Art History: case studies]
with Dr. Talita Trizoli
Sesc São Caetano, 2022
“Uma história da branquitude nas artes visuais” [A History of Whiteness in Visual Arts]
Centro de Pesquisa e Formação Sesc, São Paulo, 2022
“Mulheres, trabalho e o trabalho de arte no Brasil” [Women, Labor and Artwork in Brazil]
Sesc Carmo, São Paulo, 2021
“Notes from the backstages: Researching, curating and installing exhibitions”,
Feminist Mentoring Group for Artists, led by Dr. Talita Trizoli, october 6, 2021
“Uma conversa sobre coisas que são muitas: branquitude” [A conversation about things that are many: Whiteness], with Tatiana Lotierzo, Youtube Mesmo Sol Outro, an initiative by Dr. Carolina Cerqueira and Dr. Tálisson Melo, october 11, 2021
“Mulheres impressionistas” [Impressionist Women], MASP School, october 27, 2020
“Imagens da civilização: Marie Laurencin e a branquitude na pintura francesa.”
[Images of the Civilization: Marie Laurencin and Whiteness in French Painting]
IEB-USP, september 30, 2020
“Cor visível e cor invisível” [Visible and Invisible Color], with Glaucea Helena de Britto
Museu de Arte do Espírito Santo (MAES), july 29, 2020
“Histórias das mulheres e os discursos da diferença” [Women’s Histories and the
Discourses of Difference], MASP Teachers, september 21, 2019
“El Museu de Arte de São Paulo y sus historias” [masp and its Histories]
Museo marc, Rosário, Argentina, november 28, 2018