Camila Bechelany is a curator, critic and researcher. She holds a Master’s degree in Arts & Public Policy at New York University and in Social Anthropology at EHESS-Paris. She is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the same institution. Currently, she is curating the 10th 3M Art Show (Mostra 3M de Arte), devoted to art in the public space. In March 2020, she was a resident at BAR Project in Barcelona where she developed a project about the city at its intersections with art. In 2019 she was Pivô Research’s curator and in the same year, she was guest curator at Pinacoteca de São Paulo, working at the exhibition Artur Lescher: Suspension. Between 2018 and 2019 she was a member of the group of critics at the Centro Cultural São Paulo. She was assistant curator of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) between 2016 and 2018, where she co-curated the group shows Avenida Paulista and Histórias da Sexualidade and the solo shows of the Guerrilla Girls, Wanda Pimentel, Teresinha Soares and Cândido Portinari. Among her recent independent projects are the exhibition Parks and other pretexts, by Patrícia Leite and Cristiano Rennó. She edited several publications, including Pivô’s catalogue Imannam and Pivô Magazine N° 1 with Fernanda Brenner.
Pivô Research’s curator in 2019.