Beto Shwafaty

Artist, critic and researcher based in Brazil. Beto Shwafaty (1977) has a B.A. in visual arts form State university of Campinas, Brazil (2001), holds an M.A. in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies from the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti – NABA (Milan, 2010) and integrated the group of Simon Starling at the Staedelschule (Frankfurt, 2010/2011). Shwafaty has been involved with collective, curatorial, and spatial practices since the early 2000s, and as a result, he develops a research-based practice on spaces, histories and visualities, in which he connects formally and conceptually political, social and cultural issues that are converging to the field of art.

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