André Luiz Mesquita

André Luiz Mesquita (b. 1977) is Curator and Head of Mediation and Public programs at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – MASP, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo (2014) and currently is a postdoctoral fellow at the same institution. He is a member of Red Conceptualismos del Sur (Southern Conceptualisms Network).

Mesquita is a researcher on the relationships between art, politics and activism, working on topics such as public secrecy, state violence, social movements, counter-cartography, ecology, art and decolonization. His projects propose carrying out actions of reflection, critical and curatorial investigation, collective practices, diagrammatic thinking and knowledge production.

Mesquita is the author of the books “Insurgências poéticas: arte ativista e ação coletiva” (2011), “Esperar não é saber: arte entre o silêncio e a evidência” (2015), “Mapas dissidentes: contracartografia, poder e resistência” (2019), and co-author of “Desinventario: esquirlas de Tucumán Arde em el archivo de Graciela Carnevale” (2015). At the MASP, he organized the anthologies of “Histories of sexuality” (2017), “Afro-Atlantic Histories” (2018), “Women's Histories, feminist Histories” (2019), “Art and activism” (2021), “Brazilian Histories” (2023), Indigenous Histories” (2023) and is currently working on the “Queer histories” anthology for 2024. He curated at MASP exhibitions of several artists, such as Trisha Brown (2020), Erika Verzutti (2021), Madalena Santos Reinbolt (2022), Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (2023) and Gran Fury (2024). With the Red Conceptualismos del Sur, Mesquita curated the exhibitions “Graphic Turn. Like the Ivy on the Wall” (Museo Reina Sofia, 2022) and “Losing the Human Form. A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America” (Museo Reina Sofia, 2012).

Mesquita is currently working on two exhibitions for the year of Histories of Ecology at MASP and preparing a new book on contemporary art and public secrecy, to be released in 2025.

André Luiz Mesquita, Curator, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, São Paulo, Brazil, has been awarded by the Consulate General of Brazil in Los Angeles.