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Renata Felinto

Renata Felinto is an Afro-diasporic woman and mother of Benedita Nzinga and Francisco Madiba; a visual artist, researcher, and teacher; and a Specialist in Curatorship and Education in Art Museums at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea/USP. She holds a doctorate in Visual Arts from the Instituto de Artes/UNESP. Felinto has been an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania; an Adjunct Professor of the Graduate Studies and Professional Master Programs in Visual Arts at the Universidade Regional do Cariri, Ceará; a Professor in the specialization in Contemporary Cultural Management of Escola Itaú; Curator of the 15a Biennial Naifs do Brasil (Miguel Arcanjo de Cultura, in the Visual Arts Category 2021 Award); Co-curator of the 15a Biennial Naifs do Brasil; Adjunct Curator of the Francisco Brennand Ceramics Workshop at the Ricardo Brennand Institute; Critic in the Brazilian Arts Critics Association; and a Member of the PIPA Award Nominating Committee in 2021 and 2023. Most recently she has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for Africana Studies. Recent solo exhibitions include: an invited show at the Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair, in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2022); Performando a vida (Performing Life), SENAC Scipião (2021); and As que me habitam (The ones that inhabit me), as an invited artist at the 29th Edition of CCSP Exhibition Program. She has participated in the group shows: Empowerment at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2022); MAR Collection + Enciclopédia Negra, Museu de Arte do Rio (2022); Beethoven Moves, Kunst Historiches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (2020); the 12th Mercosul Biennial (2020); Afro-Atlantic Histories, at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake/MASP (2018); and the 29° Exhibition Program of Centro Cultural São Paulo as an invited artist (2019). She has won numerous prizes, including the PIPA Prize, the Select Art and Education Prize, and the 25th Anapolino Salon Prize, all in 2020.

Rodrigo Severo

An artist, researcher, and teacher, Rodrigo Severo operates at the intersections of performance, theater, and the Latin American movement (es)cena expandida. He holds a doctoral and master's degree in Performing Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo and a degree in Theater Education from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He is part of the Laboratory of Performative Practices at the University of São Paulo and is a founding member of Coletiva Preta Performance, which investigates ethnic-racial relations in Brazil and creates decolonized and anti-racist aesthetic actions. His research interests encompass Black performance studies, the African diaspora, the Black body, decolonized aesthetics, Black authorship, and the contemporary stage.