Sarina Tang is an art historian, curator, and patron with extensive experience in the international arts community. She was born in Shanghai, raised in São Paulo, and later studied at the École du Louvre in Paris. She studied Chinese brushwork painting as a teenager, and her first visit to the 9th Bienal de São Paulo awakened a lifelong passion for works of art by living artists.
Tang has dedicated her career to fostering dialogue between her two roots of China and Brazil. Most recently, she was a member of the International Advisory Board for the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, during which she played an instrumental role in establishing a long-term program between ICI and the São Paulo Bienal to support research and ensure Chinese artist representation in every edition of the Bienal going forward. Tang also founded Currents Art and Music, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to fostering exchange between contemporary art and music across Brazil and China. Through Currents, she established an artists’ residency and exhibition/concert space in Beijing, which hosted Brazilian artists in China and Chinese artists in Brazil from 2004 to 2016. Currently, the foundation also supports curators’ travel for research and international exhibitions.
In the late 1990s, she commissioned Roy Lichtenstein to create a group of sculptures to occupy a plaza in Singapore. They were the last commissioned work the artist executed. She also curated his exhibition Landscapes in Chinese Style at museums in Singapore and Hong Kong. In 2017, she curated Troposphere, a major exhibition at the Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing that brought together 200 works by 42 artists—half of them Brazilian and half Chinese—creating a dialogue between both countries through contemporary art for the first time. She continued her exploration of the subject with Troposphere Shared Artists Brazil China, published in 2025.
As a collector, Ms. Tang acquired Eu, Você e a Lua—a masterpiece by renowned Brazilian artist TUNGA—created the year before his death. Subsequent to the exhibition she curated, Ms. Tang has organized for the four-ton installation to be exhibited at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, at MALBA in Buenos Aires, and currently at “Collegium Institute” in a Medieval church in Arévalo, Spain.
