Suzana Sousa

Biography

Suzana Sousa is an art curator and researcher focused on developing narratives and producing knowledge from the Global South through collaboration and experimentation. Over the past decade, her work has explored themes related to contemporary African art, cultural politics, and the construction of nationalisms and national discourses through culture and the visual arts.

More recently, she has engaged with feminist curatorial practices and conducted research on the works of African women artists. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, focusing on nation-building processes in Angola within the context of museums and the visual arts since 1975. She serves as a research fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.

In 2022, Sousa was awarded the Next Generation Social Sciences for Africa Doctoral Scholarship and the Ivan Karp Research Award. She is currently working on the exhibition O poder de minhas mãos, which will open at SESC, São Paulo, Brazil, on August 23 of this year.

Suzana Sousa, Independent Curator in Luanda, Angola, has been awarded by Mercedes Vilardell.