Gabriela de Matos
Architect, urban planner, curator, and researcher. She graduated from PUC MG (2010), specialized at UFMG in 2016, and holds a master's degree in Rights, Conflicts, and Other Legitimacies from Diversitas, University of São Paulo. Founder of the Black Women Architects Project (2018), she was named Architect of the Year (2020) by IAB RJ and served as co-president of the Institute of Architects of Brazil - São Paulo department. Her research explores the genealogy of Afro-Brazilian Architecture and develops analytical frameworks for understanding contemporary Afro-Brazilian architecture. Over the past year, she has lectured on this research in the United States, England, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Uruguay, Colombia, and Argentina. In 2023, she co-curated the Brazilian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, winning the unprecedented Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Since 2020, she has been a professor at Escola da Cidade Institute in São Paulo. Gabriela is also the CEO of Gabriela de Matos Architecture Studio (founded in 2014), where she designs projects across various scales, with a focus on exhibition design. Currently, she is in an artist residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris as part of the Atlantic Threads program.
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