Cristiana SANTIAGO TEJO (F710-ADDB-8CF6)

Curriculum Vitae

Cristiana SANTIAGO TEJO

Cristiana Santiago Tejo is an integrated member of the Department of Art History at Nova de Lisboa. She was a fellow researcher at the Project Artists and Radical Education in Latin America 1960s and 1970s (2018-2019) coordinated by Giulia Lamoni and financed by FCT. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (2017) from the University State of Pernambuco. She organized the publications "Paulo Bruscky - Art and Multimedia"(2014) and "Curating in five dimensions"(2017). She published chapters in the following books: "Resistance Performed - An Anthology on Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Systems in Latin America"¿ (JRP Editions, 2016), "Teresa Burga: Aleatory Structures" (JRP Editions, 2018), and as a co-author at "Arrival Cities: Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 20th Century "(Leuven University Press, 2020). The main points of her research are Curating, Latin America, Art education, radical pedagogies, decolonial thought and practices, immigration, Contemporary Art, and International networks.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Cristiana SANTIAGO TEJO

Citation names

TEJO, Cristiana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: F710-ADDB-8CF6
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0105-6677

Websites

https://institutodehistoriadaarte.wordpress.com/cristiana-tejo/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Art history

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
German	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)
French	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012/03/03 - 2017/08/30 Concluded	Doutorado em Sociologia (Doutoramento) Major in Sociologia da Arte Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil "A Gênese do Campo da Curadoria de Artes no Brasil: Aracy Amaral, Frederico Morais e Walter Zanini " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado
2003/03/04 - 2005/06/14 Concluded	Comunicação (Mestrado) Major in Mídia e Cultura Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Artes e Comunicação, Brazil "Made in Pernambuco: arte contemporânea e o sistema de consumo cultural globalizado" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado
1994/03/10 - 1998/06/23 Concluded	Comunicação Social - Jornalismo (Licenciatura) Major in Jornalismo Cultural Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Artes e Comunicação, Brazil "Diálogo entre Frida Kahlo e Simone de Beauvoir " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovada

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/11/01 - 2019/10/31	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2004/02/10 - 2012/01/31	Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Faculdades Integradas Barros Melo , Brazil

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/06/01 - Current	Coordenador Técnico (Assistente Técnico)	Hangar - Centro de Investigação em Arte, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2009/01/20 - 2011/11/05	Manager of Laboratory, Institute, Museum, Centre or Observatory	Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil

2007/01/01 - 2008/12/31	Manager of Laboratory, Institute, Museum, Centre or Observatory	Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Brazil

2002/03/01 - 2006/12/31	Manager of Laboratory, Institute, Museum, Centre or Observatory	Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil

2005/01/05 - 2006/12/30	Curadora do Projeto Rumos Artes Visuais	Instituto Itaú Cultural , Brazil

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/07/01 - Current	Coordinator of Independent art space	NowHere Lisboa, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/01/01 - 2024/06/30	Contemporary Art - A path for an inclusive museology 2022.04615.PTDC 10.54499/2022.04615.PTDC Post-doc Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/11/01 - 2019/10/31	Artists and Radical Education in Latin America: 1960s/1970s FI/00537/2015 Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	TEJO, Cristiana; BRUSCKY, Paulo. Paulo Bruscky - Art and multimedia. Recife, Brazil: Zolu. 2014. Published • Editor
Book chapter	TEJO, Cristiana. "Sobre viver juntxs". In Bienal de São Paulo desde 1951, 279-287. São Paulo, Brazil: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2022. Published TEJO, Cristiana. "Mural Marielle Franco by Vhills". In Colonial Echoes- Histories, Heritages and memories, edited by Ana Guardião; Miguel Bandeira Jerônimo; Paulo Peixoto, 137-143. Lisboa, Portugal: Tinta da China, 2022. Published TEJO, Cristiana. "Abdel Queta Tavares - Body spellings". In Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Principe and their Diasporas, 154-161. Lisboa, Portugal: Hangar Books, 2021. Published TEJO, Cristiana; KERN, Daniela. "Art and Exile in Rio de Janeiro - artistic networking during the II World War". In Arrival Cities - Migrating artists and new metropolitan topographies in the 20th Century, edited by Dogramaci, Burcu; Hetschold, Mareike; Lugo, Laura Karp; Lee, Rachel; Roth, Helene, 109-122. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2020. Published TEJO, Cristiana; Gonzalez, Julieta ; López, Miguel A. ; Villacorta, Jorge; Biczel, Dorota; Minioudaki, Kalliopi; Munder, Heike. "An Afternoon with Teresa Burga". edited by Heike Munder. Switzerland, 2018. TEJO, Cristiana. "É preciso transver a arte". In Coleção Ensaios Brasileiros Contemporâneos - Artes Visuais, edited by Fernando Cocchiarale ; André Severo ; Marília Panitz, 203-210. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: FUNARTE, 2017. Published TEJO, Cristiana; Richard, Nelly; Alonso, Rodrigo ; López, Miguel A. ; Munder, Heike. "Circuits, Systems, Networks". In Resistance Performed - an Anthology on Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Regimes in Latin America, edited by Heike Munder, 12-19. Zurich, Switzerland: JRP\|Ringier, 2015. TEJO, Cristiana; HORRIGAN, Bill; FILHO, Paulo Venâncio; BREMNER, Ann; STULTS, Chris; LANGE, Jennifer; MAY, Cheryl- Lynn; CARVALHO, Denise. "The need to trans-see art". In Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, edited by LANGE, Jennifer; HORRIGAN, Bill; FILHO, Paulo Venâncio, 46-57. Columbus, United States: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2014. Published
Exhibition catalog	TEJO, Cristiana. Avenge certain Geometries. Galeria Luciana Britto, 2023.
Journal article	TEJO, Cristiana. "Experimental Art Beyond Avant-garde: the radical pedagogies of Celeida Tostes and Graciela Carnevale". Caiana 18 (2021): 142-160. http://caiana.caia.org.ar/resources/uploads/13-pdf/caiana%2018D_%20Tejo_pdffINAL1.pdf. Published
Thesis / Dissertation	Santiago Tejo, Cristiana. "Made in Pernambuco: contemporary art and the globalized cultural consumption system". Master, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2005. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/3466.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition

2024. "Arrow". In Arrow - Mercedes Lachmann.
Veridiana Leite. 2023. "Supernova".
Elaine Pessoa. 2023. "Exploratorius". In Exploratorius.
Ana Mazzei; André Ricardo; Bel Falleiros; Camila Sposati; davi de jesus do nascimento; Celeida Tostes; Éder Oliveira; et al. 2022. "37th Panorama of Brazilian Art - Under the ashes, embers". In Under the ashes, embers.
Catarina Simão. 2020. "R-humor". In R-Humor: solo show of Catarina Simão.

Other

Other output

Tomorrow is another day - Mónica de Miranda. Curadoria da Exposição Tomorrow is another day da artista luso-angolana Mónica de Miranda na Galeria Carlos Carvalho. 2018. TEJO, Cristiana.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/11/14	Artists and Radical Education in Latin America: 1960s/1970s	(Un)told histories - symposium on decolonization of art and society Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)
2019/09/24	The Brazilian People: from the Modernist representation to the contemporary presentation	Nationalismes dans l'art en Amérique Latine Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte France (Paris, France)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/02/02 - 2021/09/30	CARMEM MIRANDA: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MYTH Co-supervisor	ESTUDOS ARTÍSTICOS (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
2019/10/15 - 2021/03/01	Interdependence Relations in Contemporary Art: Alternative Circuits in Brazil and Portugal Co-supervisor	Doutoramento em Arte Contemporânea (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Colégio das Artes, Portugal
2020/03/02 - 2020/11/30	‘AN INDEFINITE SERIES OF DISCONTINUOUS ACTS’ An experiment in applying phenomenological approaches to the research of critical theories in culture by Nithya Iyer. This project proposes to explore how arts-based research methods can deepen inquiry into critical theory, with a specific focus on emergent themes in culture studies. Co-supervisor	Masters of Therapeutic Arts Practice (Master) Melbourne Institute of Experiential and Creative Art Therapy , Australia
2019/10/05 - 2020/04/01	THE WORK OF LOSS: ARTUR BARRIO AND IMMATERIAL ART Co-supervisor	ESTUDOS ARTISTICOS (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2011/05/30 - 2011/05/30	Organização da Conferência A Estética da Singularidade com Frederic Jameson, na Fundação Joaquim Nabuco. O evento atraiu um público de 200 pessoas. (2011/05/30 - 2011/05/30) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil
2010/09/27 - 2010/09/29	Curadoria e Novas Centralidades (Entre Temporalidades) - O encontro reuniu curadores da China, Holanda, Brasil, Colômbia e Egito para discutir o impacto da globalização do campo artístico na circulação de artistas e curadores entre o Norte e o Sul Globais. (2010/09/27 - 2010/09/29) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil
2009/11/09 - 2009/11/11	Organização do Seminário Depois do Muro: A Geopolítica das Artes com curadores, historiadores da arte e pensadores do Brasil, Portugal. Cuba e Sérvia para pensar-se sobre o legado dos 20 anos da queda do muro de Berlim e seu impacto para o campo da arte mundial. (2009/11/09 - 2009/11/11) Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)	Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil
2009/08/24 - 2009/08/26	Organização do seminário A Crise da Cultura e a Cultura na Crise com pensadores e gestores culturais que endereçaram o impacto da crise econômica mundial no campo da cultura brasileira. (2009/08/24 - 2009/08/26) Congress (Co-organisor)	Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2018/11/30 - 2018/12/01	Apresentação do paper "Art and Exile in Rio de Janeiro: artistic networking during the II World War", em co-autoria com Daniela Kern, na conferência Arrival Cities: migrating artists and new metropolitan topographies Conference	Arrival Cities: migrating artists and new metropolitan topographies Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Germany
2018/10/11 - 2018/10/12	Apresentação do paper "Art critics and curators in international circulation: the cases of Mario Pedrosa and Walter Zanini", no evento Reframing the (Art) World. Commitment, Challenges and Crises of International Art Criticism since 1945, organizado pela AICA e pela Université Rennes 2 Conference	Reframing the (Art) World. Commitment, Challenges and Crises of International Art Criticism since 1945
2018/09/05 - 2018/09/07	Apresentação do paper : Learning in the ruins: immigrant artists and the spread of abstractionism and new representation in the Brazilian Avant-Garde", no evento 6th International Conference of the EAM (The European Network of Avant-garde and Modernism Studies):Realism(s) of the Avant-Garde and Modernism Conference	6th International Conference of the EAM (The European Network of Avant-garde and Modernism Studies):Realism(s) of the Avant-Garde and Modernism Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Fachbereich 8 Geschichte und Philosophie, Germany
2017/11/27 - 2017/11/28	Keynote speaker com o paper "A Bienal de São Paulo e América Latina em dois tempos: Mário Pedrosa e Walter Zanini”, na Conferência Internacional Through, From, To Latin America Networks, circulations and artistic transits from the 1960s to the present Conference	Through, From, To Latin America Networks, circulations and artistic transits from the 1960s to the present Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/11/09	Europa Oxalá: a reflection on the limits and possibilities of decolonizing museums (Thesis) Main arguer	Amanda Lucilio Oliveira (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/11/06	Mulher, feminino e feminismo em debate no sistema artístico brasileiro (1960-1982) (Thesis) Main arguer	Bruna Fernanda Vieira Silva (Master) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2023/07/06	BIOGRAFÊMEAS - Uma travessia atlântica narrada por bocas vermelhas (Thesis) Main arguer	Sandra Urizzi Lessa (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Colégio das Artes, Portugal
2023/06/09	Curadoria em Museu de Arte na Contemporaneidade: abordagens Crítica, Pós-crítica e Decolonial. (Thesis) Main arguer	Aline Cristina Costa de Arruda (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/04/17	Coloniality, whitening processes, and the hegemonic narrative in Brazilian contemporary art institutions: reflections on curatorial practices and the production of racialized identities (Thesis) Arguer	Érica Cristiane Saraiva (PhD) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2019/03/03 - 2019/06/03	Conference Cycle Fields of Collaboration	Culturgest
2018/09/24 - 2018/09/28	27o Encontro da Associação Nacional de Pesquisadores em Artes Plásticas	UNESP

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2009/01/20 - 2011/11/05	Organização de conferências, seminários, cursos, concurso de ensaios e edição de livros	Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil
2007/01/01 - 2008/12/31	Direção e Curadoria do Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães - MAMAM. Organização das exposições de Livia Flores, Debora Bolsoni, Laura Belém, Daniela Mattos, Cinthia Marcelle, Amanda Melo, Marco Paulo Rolla, Grupo EmpreZa e Marcelo Solá, no MAMAM do Pátio.	Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Brazil
2002/03/05 - 2006/12/31	Curadora de Artes Plásticas da Diretoria de Cultura da Fundação Joaquim Nabuco. Organização do Projeto Trajetórias, em 2003, que apresentou mais de 50 artistas de todas as regiões do Brasil nas galerias da instituição. Implementação do projeto Primeiro Olhar, o programa educativo em Arte Contemporânea da Fundaj.	Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2004/02/10 - 2012/01/31	Historia da Arte Moderna e Contemporânea	Comunicação Social - Jornalismo (Licenciatura)	Faculdades Integradas Barros Melo , Brazil