Beatriz Lobo Britto (b. 1994, Brazil) is iniva’s curator since 2022, where she is responsible for the development and delivery of exhibitions and public programmes with a focus on artistic practices from Global Majority, working with artists and partners to implement artistic projects through research, radical art education, unlearning, and wellbeing practices.
Beatriz is also a museologist, researcher and an enthusiast of non-hierarchical thinking, believing in non-linear ways of composing and organising ideas. Her research is invested in decolonial methodologies, exploring practices around education, social and environmental justice. Since 2011, Beatriz has been an advocate for Indigenous rights, working on community-led projects with a focus on critical pedagogy and land justice in South America.
Beatriz holds an MA in Curatorial Practice with a focus in Contemporary Art from Glasgow School of Art, and a BA (Hons) in Museum Studies from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, where she is still part of the Museology, Territories and Societies Lab, contributing to reading cycles and research. She has held curatorial positions at The NewBridge Project (Newcastle, UK), Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow, UK), Museu do Índio (Museum of Indigenous Peoples, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and contributed to programmes in other institutions such as BALTIC (Gateshead, UK) and Hauser & Wirth (London, UK). Beatriz has delivered lectures and talks at various institutions, including Goldsmiths (London, UK), University of Oxford (UK), Artes Mundi (Cardiff, Wales), British Art Network (London, UK), Fotogalleriet (Oslo, NO), Instituto Superior de Arte (Havana, Cuba). She was a recipient of the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries in 2020, and part of the Engagement Program for International Curators from the Association for Art Museum Curators, where she was paired with the Brooklyn Museum in 2023.
At iniva, Beatriz has curated the project Unseen Guests (2024) as part of the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, the exhibitions Materials Speak (2024) and Village Letters (2022-2023). Co-curated Shifting the Centre – Anticolonial Ways of Seeing (2023), Can Publications be Porous? (2023), Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole (2022), educational projects include Youth Rising, CoLab, and engagement activities around Future Collect projects.