Permanent Seminar (Sept. 9, 12pm): Talita Trizoli, “Mapping the Audacious: Feminist and Women-Only Exhibitions in Brazil”

Thursday, September 25, noon–1:30 CST, CLAVIS (ART 3.434A)

Mapping the Audacious: Feminist and Women-Only Exhibitions in Brazil

Dr. Talita Trizoli

Mellon Fellow High Impact Scholar, The University of Texas at Austin (Spring 2025–Fall 2025); Visiting Researcher, Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS)

The presentation, drawn from Dr. Trizoli’s current book project, proposes a revision of Brazilian art historical narratives about the relation between the art system and the feminist agenda. To chart this trajectory, she not only considers exhibitions that declared feminism to be their curatorial scope, but also women-only shows supported by feminist organizations from the 1930s to the present. She highlights connections between artists, institutions, and art criticism with the different feminist agendas.

 

Bio

Talita Trizoli is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Texas Austin, where she is a Mellon Fellow High Impact Scholar and affiliated with the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS). She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (Brazilian Studies Institute) at the Universidade de São Paulo (University of São Paulo) where she completed a project on the art critics and curators Maria Eugênia Franco and Aracy Amaral. From the same institution, she earned a PhD in Education with a dissertation on feminist art in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s and a MA in Aesthetics and Art History with a thesis on Regina Vater. She was a lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at the Universidade Federal de Goias (Federal University of Goias) and in Art Department at the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Federal University of Uberlândia). She is also an active curator involved in projects related to feminism, gender studies, politics, and ethics in the arts such as Como medida: Adalgisa Campos at the Museu da Cidade de São Paulo (2023) and the group show O grande circo do patriarcado at Canteiro (2023). Her research has received support from the Cisneros Institute at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo), and the Mellon Foundation.