João Ribas

João Ribas is the Steven D. Lavine Executive Director and Vice President for Cultural Partnerships at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT). Previously, he was Director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. He was Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center (2009-2013) and at The Drawing Center, New York (2007-2009). Ribas is the winner of four consecutive AICA Exhibition Awards (2008–11) and of an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award (2010). His recent exhibitions include In the Holocene (MIT) on art, science, and speculation, and exhibitions of the work of Chris Marker, Amalia Pica, Joachim Koester, Akram Zaatari, The Otolith Group, Otto Piene, Frances Stark, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Ree Morton, among others. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Artforum, Mousse, and Art in America, and he has been a contributor to numerous catalogs and books, including Contemporary Art: From 1989 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and Realism Materialism Art (Sternberg/CCS Bard, forthcoming). A visiting lecturer for institutions and organizations worldwide, he is currently a lecturer at Yale University, and has taught at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).