Mariana Pinto dos Santos (PhD in History and Theory, Univ. Barcelona) is an art historian and independent curator. She is an associated researcher and deputy director at the Art History Institute (IHA) at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH). She is a professor of several courses at the Art History Department of NOVA FCSH. Previously she also lectured at Coimbra University and was an invited lecturer at several institutions, such as the University of Lisbon, the University of Beira Interior, ESAD (Porto), the University of Zurich, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Leipzig. She has tutored several Master and PhD students. Her curating is research-oriented, and she has worked with different institutions in Portugal and abroad. In 2017, she curated a major anthological exhibition on Almada Negreiros for the Gulbenkian Foundation. She also curated Almada Negreiros’ exhibitions in Porto (Museu Soares dos Reis, 2017), Tavira (Galeria do Palácio, 2018) and Guadalajara, Mexico (Instituto Cabañas, 2018). She is the coordinator and author of the Interpretation Centre on Almada Negreiros’ murals in the Maritime Stations of Lisbon. Among other exhibitions, she co-curated Troubles with Primitivism – a view from Portugal (with Marta Mestre) in 2024 (CIAJG, Guimarães) and, more recently, An Atlantic Drift. The Arts of the 20th Century, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC/CCB, Lisbon) with Nuria Enguita and Marta Mestre (currently showing). Additionally, she has curated exhibitions for Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva Museum (Lisbon), Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar (Lisbon), Casa Fernando Pessoa (Lisbon). Her research and publications are focused on modernity and modernisms, the circulation of the avant-garde, historiography and theory of art, twentieth-century Portuguese art in a global context, critical and transdisciplinary approaches in art history, and the relation between aesthetics/politics. She is the author of the book Vanguarda & Outras Loas. Percurso teórico de Ernesto de Sousa (2007). She is co-editor of the Literary Work of Almada Negreiros and has coordinated several editions of books, academic journals and exhibition catalogues. She has published internationally in RIHA Journal, Konsthistorisk tidskrift/ Journal of Art History, Diadorim, Artium Quaestiones, Perspective, or the Journal of Avant-Garde Studies. She was co-PI of the European-funded research project Iberian Modernisms and the Primitivist Imaginary (2018-22) (PTDC/ART-HIS/29837/2017), was part of the research team of the FCT-funded project Unveiling the Mural Painting Art of Almada Negreiros (1938-1956) (2021-24) (PTDC/ART-HIS/1370/2020) and is currently part of the research team of Project PERMORIA – Performatividad del monumento. Percepción social e intervenciones sobre el arte público en España y Portugal desde 1950 (2024-27) based at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Recently, she co-edited, with Joana Cunha Leal, The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms (Routledge / Taylor & Francis, 2024). She is the general editor of A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Iberian Peninsula: A Companion (Brill), currently in preparation. She coordinates the Almada Negreiros-Sarah Affonso Documental Archive (NOVA FCSH). She is co-owner and editor at Edições do Saguão since 2017.