Ana Maria Maia

Ana Maria Maia, chief curator of Pinacoteca de São Paulo is in residence at KADIST San Francisco, as part of KADIST Nomadic Collection, launching a long-term partnership between the two institutions from 2024 to 2027. During her residency, Maia will focus her research on Latinx identities in the arts from the U.S. context, as it relates to histories of global migration.

In 2023, KADIST launched the “Nomadic Collection” program as the next step in building a distributed and network-driven institution. Every 3 to 5 years, this new form of collaboration makes part of the KADIST collection available, via a multi-year loan, to a leading museum, for exhibition and educational programs. This series is inaugurated with the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) in 2023 and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo (Brazil) in 2024. With this initiative, KADIST facilitates new connections and exchanges across cultures, ensuring the collection is renewed and relevant for generations to come.

Ana Maria Maia is chief curator of Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Her research seeks to locate forms of experimentalism and contextuality in different generations of artists between modern and contemporary art. This focus has already had repercussions on curatorial projects focused on processual poetics, public art and media interventions. Maia holds a PhD degree in Visual Art from São Paulo University.

The Pinacoteca de São Paulo is a visual arts museum that houses a vast Brazilian art collection from the 19th century to the present day and in dialogue with world cultures. As the oldest art museum in the city, founded in 1905 by the São Paulo State Government, it has been hosting exhibitions of its renowned collection of Brazilian art and temporary exhibitions of national and international artists in its three buildings, Pina Luz, Pina Estação, and Pina Contemporânea. The Pinacoteca also designs and presents multidisciplinary public projects, as well as hosts a comprehensive and inclusive educational program.