Juliana Ribeiro de Silva Bevilacqua

Juliana Ribeiro de Silva Bevilacqua is an Associate Professor and Queen's National Scholar in the Department of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen's University, Canada. She holds a PhD from the University of São Paulo (2016) and specializes in African and Afro-Brazilian art, colonial museum histories, and diasporic cultural practices. Her research bridges academic scholarship with curatorial practice, emphasizing collaboration with communities in Brazil and Africa.

Education: PhD in Art History, Universidade de São Paulo (2016).

Research focuses on colonial-era museums in Angola, Afro-Brazilian religious art (e.g., Candomblé), and modernist movements in Bahia. She is author of Homens de Ferro (2011) and co-author of África em Artes (2015). Her curatorial work includes exhibitions at Museu Afro Brasil and MASP, with a decade-long tenure as research curator at Museu Afro Brasil (2004-2014).

Awards: Queen's National Scholar (current).

Teaching & Advising: Collaborates with Unicamp’s Art History graduate program, supervising Master’s and PhD students since 2017. Served as visiting professor at Universidad de Los Andes (2018) through Getty Foundation funding.

Key Projects: Curated Metáforas do vazio (2018) and guest-edited Critical Interventions journal on Afro-Brazilian art (2015).