Inês Beleza Barreiros is an art historian, cultural critic, curator, professor, and practice-based scholar who carries out her work both inside and outside academia. ------- Currently, she is Michael Ann Holly Research Fellow at The Clark Art Institute (USA), where she is finish her upcoming book "Thinking Visually: the afterlives of the Portuguese empire". Her research delves into how art and images become knowledge-producing objects; the visual culture, public memory, and afterlives of colonialism; and reparation processes in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian world. ------- She holds a PhD in Media, Culture and Communication Studies (specialization in Visual Culture and Memory Studies) from New York University; an MA in Contemporary Art History from Nova University of Lisbon; and a BA in History and Art History from the University of Lisbon. She also had fruitful study experiences at the New School for Social Research (Cultural Anthropology) and at SORBONNE-Paris IV, UFR d'Art et Archéologie (Erasmus). ------- Inês is also an Integrated Researcher at ICNOVA, in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, at Nova University of Lisbon (where she is national committee manager of the European COST project TRACTS - Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice) and she has been working in award-winning documentary films that explore the relation between cinema and other art forms, such as painting (VIEIRARPAD, 2022; AURÉLIA, 2025), landscape, (A VOSSA TERRA, 2016) and architecture (A VOSSA CASA, 2014). ------- In the recent past, she was FLAD Visiting Professor in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University (USA), where she taught the graduate seminar Challenging the Colonial Complex, Invited Professor of Decolonial Art History (from neoclassicism to contemporary art) at the College of Theatre and Cinema, at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (2024); Editor at La Rampa. Art, Life & Beyond (2018-2023); and a policy-making advisor at the Portuguese Parliament (2019-2021), accompanying the legislative procedures in the Commission for the Environment, with particular focus on a Resolution Proposal for a Strategic Environmental Assessment for Mining (2020) and Portugal Climate Law (2021). ------- Her publications include articles in international peer-reviewed academic journals, such as PLCS - Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies and the Journal of Lusophone Studies, as well as book chapters in prestigious edited volumes. She is the author of the book "Sob o Olhar de Deuses sem Vergonha: Cultura Visual e Paisagens Contemporâneas" (2009) and is presently preparing the book manuscript "Thinking Visually: The Afterlives of Portuguese Imperialism", in which she lays the foundation of a unique method termed as visual archaeology. ------ Her work has been supported by the The Clark Art Institute (USA), Luso-American Development Foundation, Portugal's Foundation for Science and Technology, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Le Boff Fund (New York University), Gwaertler Stiftung (Switzerland), and the Government of Mexico. ------ Inês works between Portugal, Brazil, and the United States.