Douglas de Freitas Santos

Douglas de Freitas Santos (b. 1986) is an art curator and researcher. Curatorial Coordinator at the Inhotim Institute, Belo Horizonte, where he is responsible for executing the artistic program, he co-curates exhibitions such as Abdias Nascimento and the Black Art Museum (2021-2024), Pipilotti Rist (opening in October 2024), and Rivane Neuenschwander (opening in October 2024), among others.

From 2011 to 2019, he was curator at the Museu da Cidade de São Paulo (Municipal Department of Culture), where he curated the performance by Maurício Ianês, the installations by Tatiana Blass, Lucia Koch, Iran do Espírito Santo, Felipe Cohen, Laura Belém, Sara Ramo and Vanderlei Lopes at Capela do Morumbi; the retrospective exhibitions Guerra do Tempo (War of Time), by Marilá Dardot; Arte à Mão Armada (Armed Art), by Carmela Gross; and Allegro, by Guto Lacaz, at Chácara Lane.

In 2018, he held the exhibition “Morumbi Caxingui Butantã” with installations by Cinthia Marcelle, Matheus Rocha Pitta and Marcius Galan, who occupied Casa do Bandeirante, Casa do Sertanista and Capela do Morumbi respectively. He was selected as curator for the 2011 Paço das Artes Projects Season; winner of the 2014 and 2016 PROAC Visual Arts Award; the 2015 Edital Amplificadores de Artes Visuais do Recife; and the 2013 Funarte Contemporary Art Award, at the Sala Nordeste de Artes Visuais, in Recife. In 2017, he organized the monographic book of Carmela Gross by the Cobogó publishing house.

Douglas de Freitas Santos, Curatorial Coordinator, Instituto Inhotim, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles.