Pollyana Quintella is a writer, researcher and curator at Pinacoteca de São Paulo, where she has organized exhibitions such as Lenora de Barros: Minha Língua (2022-23), Cao Fei: o futuro não é um sonho (2023-24) and Lygia Clark: Projeto para um planeta (2024). She is a PhD student at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and holds a master’s degree in Art History from the same institution, when she researched the work of the critic Mário Pedrosa. At the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), she served as assistant curator between 2018 and 2021. As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions at institutions such as Sesc Pompeia, Museu Paranaense (MuPA) and Paço Imperial.

In recent years, she has written for several periodicals such as Folha de São Paulo newspaper, O Globo newspaper, zum magazine, Select magazine, Continente magazine, Artebrasileiros magazine!, among others, with an emphasis on the relationships between contemporary art, visual culture and politics. He teaches classes on Brazilian art and image theory in free courses. In 2023, she was awarded a grant from the Getty Foundation to join the Art and Power School, held at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome.