Thaís Rivitti

Thaís Rivitti is an art critic and curator that lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. As an art critic, Rivitti has contributed articles for various Brazilian magazines, including Bravo!, Número, and Ars. She has published books on contemporary Brazilian artists, such as Beatriz Milhazes, Carmela Gross, and Leda Catunda. Rivitti has worked at the Center for Research and Curation of Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (2007), and on Monica Nador's panoramic exhibition at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo Museum (2010). She currently runs Ateliê 397, an independent art space in Vila Madalena, with Brazilian artist Marcelo Amorim. Ateliê 397 is a space dedicated to the circulation and production of contemporary art in the form of exhibitions, interdisciplinary events, video art sessions, performances, and happenings. In this space, Rivitti curated REC GRU with a collective of artists from Recife (in northeastern Brazil), and Where the River Ends with an artist collective from Pará (in northern Brazil). In addition, she organized Independent Spaces project, a national award-winning exhibition, which featured work of more than five independent arts spaces around Brazil. Rivitti served as editor for the following publications: Independent Spaces (2010) and Nino Cais: poems and songs. She is a co-collaborator with other young curators on the online magazine of art criticism, Maré.