Ivo Mesquita is a Brazilian curator and, since 1996 Visiting Professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He is the curator for the 2008 São Paulo biennial and since 2006, the Chief Curator at Pinacoteca do Estado, in São Paulo. Ivo Mesquita was the Researcher, Assistant Curator (1980-88), and the Artistic Director (1999-2000) for the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo; Artistic Director, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2001-02). Among the exhibitions curated by Ivo Mesquita are Jorge Guinle, 20th São Paulo Bienal (1989); Desire in the Academy, 1847-1916, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo (1991);Cartographies, Winnipeg Art Gallery (1993); Daniel Senise: The Enlightening Gaze, MARCO, Monterrey (1994); Body and Space, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (1995); Stills: works from the Marielouise Hessel Collection, CCS-Bard College, (1997);Alair Gomes, fotógrafo, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo (1999); Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Climate, Fundación, "la Caixa", Madrid, (2003); Voyage to Dakar: Three artists from the Américas, VI Dakar Biennale - DakArt 2004; Pablo Siquier, Palácio Velazquez/Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, (2005). Co-curator, Roteiros, 24th São Paulo Bienal (1998); inSITE97 andinSITE2000, San Diego/Tijuana; and F[r]icciones, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2000). Publications include Leonilson: use é lindo, eu garanto (1997/2006), Daniel Senise: ela que não está (1998), F[r]icciones (with Adriano Pedrosa, 2001), Eliane Prolik: Noutro Lugar (2005) and catalogue essays. Lives and works between São Paulo and Rhinebeck, NY.