Veronica Cordeiro is a Brazilian artist, curator and writer based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Constantly exploring the possibilities of art as an agent and platform of growth and transformation, in the last twenty years Veronica has organised countless projects in several countries where art, exhibition, personal experience, conversations, inter-disciplinary debates, educational platforms and institutional commissions have been pushed from their conventional settings in order to open up new forms of knowledge and experience. She began her curatorial training at the 24th Bienal de São Paulo (Antropofagia, 1998) and after completing an MA in Visual Anthropology in London in 2008 and starting a PhD as an ethnographic artist and researcher, she moved to Uruguay in 2009 where she the ongoing project Curating in Context, the monthly live art critique sessions called Plato Crítico, courses in curatorial practice and the creative process, experimental art residencies and shows, etc. In 2013 Veronica created the curatorial department of the Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo (CdF) and developed the new international photography festival MUFF (Montevideo Uruguay Festival de Fotografía). In 2018, she left CdF to concentrate on Procesual, a year-long creative processes laboratory that offers an innovative methodology to art-making, understanding the artistic process as a vital force of creation in its intrinsic relationship with life itself. In 2019, Veronica launched a textile design project that seeks to revitalize and support ancestral weaving techniques which are becoming obsolete in many Latin American regions through innovative design, adding value to local craftsmanship and empowering traditional communities.
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West Hartford, USA
Cape Town, South Africa
Skopje, Macedonia
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Quito, Ecuador
Dublin, Ireland
Göteborg, Sweden
Tirana, Albania
Tirana, Albania
Lagos, Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Sioux Falls, USA
Greenfield, USA
New Orleans, LA, USA
Conway, USA
Taipei, Taiwan
Storrs, USA
Indianapolis, USA
Springfield, MA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Portland, ME, USA
Fitzroy, Australia
Wooster, USA
London, England, UK
East Jerusalem
Berlin, Germany
Biel, Switzerland
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Raleigh, USA
Greencastle, IN, USA
Calgary, Canada
Dakar, Senegal
Moscow, Russia