Mariana de Lemos Pinto dos Santos completed her PhD in the Scientific Area Historia y Teoria in 2015 from the Universitat de Barcelona and Master in History of Contemporary Art in 2004 from the NOVA University of Lisbon. She won a 32-month research contract at the NOVA University of Lisbon, Institute of History of Art (IHA) (2019-21). She has been an integrated researcher at the IHA since 2015. She is an associate teacher at NOVA University and Coimbra University. She has published 10 articles in specialized journals. She has 20 book chapters and 1 book. She has edited 4 exhibition catalogues, 2 scientific journals and is currently editing 2 books. She was the editorial coordinator of the IHA Journal (June 2021-March 2022). She has participated in 22 events, supervised 1 PhD thesis and 1 MA dissertation, and co-supervised another MA dissertation. She has received 2 scholarships and 1 award. She is the co-Principal Investigator in 1 project. She works in the area of Humanities with emphasis on the History of Art and Theory of Art. In her professional activities, she has interacted with 22 collaborators in the co-authorship of scientific papers. In her curriculum Vitae Science the most frequent terms in the contextualization of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are Visual Studies; Museums; Paradigm; Copy; Concept; Modernism; Historiography; Theory; Walter Benjamin; periphery; canon; art; centre; history; theory; Haydn White; Cultures and Cultural Production - Art History; fascism; Susan Sontag; modernism; primitivism; writing; modernity; vision; exchange; painting; modernism; primitivism; resistance; avant-garde; ingenuousness; Orpheu; eroticism; avant-garde; intersections, Almada Negreiros, Ernesto de Sousa.