Creative Conversations/digital: Rosana Paulino with Martha Scott Burton

Saturday, August 15 | 2PM 

Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino, featured in the FotoFest Biennial 2020 African Cosmologies exhibition, in discussion with art historian and curator Martha Scott Burton. Centered around Paulino's work, "Das Avós [the Grandmothers]" (2019), the discussion will explore the artists work and research on the poetics and politics surrounding Blackness in Brazil, and its relation to indigenous communities, gendered histories, and colonial projects.

About the guests
Rosana Paulino (b. 1967) lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. She has received several awards in Brazil for her work, including scholarships for academic study and artistic creation. She was a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy in 2014 and was awarded the Ford Foundation International Fellowship (cohort 2006) to pursue a Master’s degree in Visual Arts at the University of São Paulo (USP). She won a 2008-11 scholarship from the Brazilian government to pursue a PhD in Visual Arts at USP. Her works have featured in the following recent exhibitions: Rosana Paulino – A costura da memória (2018, Pinacoteca do São Paulo); Atlântico Vermelho (2017, Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon); South: Let Me Begin Again (2017, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town); La Corteza del Alma (2016, Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid); Territórios: Artistas afrodescendentes no Acervo da Pinacoteca (2015, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo); and Mulheres Negras – Obscure Beauté du Brésil (2014, Espace Culturel Fort Griffon, Besançon, France). Paulino’s work has been the subject of several studies, and articles have been published in Brazil, the United States, Portugal, France, and Spain focusing on her research-based praxis.

Martha Scott is an art history scholar and writer with experience in research, exhibition development, and publishing and editorial work.  Her research focuses on the politics of identity in modern and contemporary art, histories of photography, and legacies of colonialism — especially as these areas intersect around issues of representation and knowledge production.  She has held curatorial and research positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Morgan Library & Museum, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.  Her writing appears in caa.reviews, various exhibition catalogues and gallery texts, as well as in Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine.

She holds an M.A. in Art History from The University of Texas at Austin, with a Graduate Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies, and a B.A. in Art History (magna cum laude) from Columbia University.  She has also completed graduate coursework at L’École du Louvre and undergraduate coursework at the Université Paris-Sorbonne and Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris.

Martha Scott is the Research Associate in the Office of the President at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York).