Mateus Nunes (Belém, 1997) is a Brazilian curator and art critic based in São Paulo. He is Assistant Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), where he developed the exhibition on André Taniki Yanomami (2025–2026) and is currently organizing the forthcoming exhibition on Jesús Soto (2026–2027), both co-curated with Adriano Pedrosa.
Nunes holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the Universidade Federal do Pará, in Belém, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Lisbon. He completed postdoctoral fellowships in Art and Architectural History at the University of São Paulo (2022–2025) and in Amazonian Studies at the University of Quito (2023–2024). His research interests orbit around image theory and its confrontations with philosophy and literature; historiographic mechanisms related to temporal and narrative understandings; hybridisms and cultural exchanges in contemporary art; and the present-day reverberations of art produced during the colonial period. He recently edited publications on the Brazilian artists Emmanuel Nassar (São Paulo: Cosac, 2025) and Paulo Nimer Pjota (Berlin: Distanz, 2025). He writes regularly for
specialized art-criticism magazines such as Artforum, ArtReview, Flash Art, and Frieze. He is also a Guest Professor at the University of São Paulo, where he teaches courses in art and architectural history.
