Adriano Pedrosa
Artistic Director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Photography: Andrea Avezzu, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
Adriano Pedrosa has been the artistic director of Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) since 2014. He was adjunct curator of the 24th Bienal de São Paulo (1998), co-curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo (2006), curator of InSite_05 (San Diego-Tijuana, 2005), artistic director of the 2nd Trienal de San Juan (2009), and curator of 31st Panorama da Arte Brasileira: Mamõyaguara opá mamõ pupé (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, 2009). In 2023, he received the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from Bard College, and he was the curator of the Biennale Arte 2024 in Venice. Time magazine has chosen him as one of the 100 most influential people in the art world of 2026.