Naine Terena

Naine Terena lives in Cuiabá (MT), in the central west of Brazil, and transits through various areas of knowledge and cultural production: in addition to her work as a visual artist, she is a researcher and professor. She has curated, among other works, the exhibition Véxoa: Nós sabemos (Véxoa: We Know, October 2020/April 2021), housed in the Pinacoteca of São Paulo, with works by 23 indigenous artists and collectives. She has a Master’s in Art from the University of Brasília, a Doctorate in Education from PUC-São Paulo and did a postdoc at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). She is one of the organizers of the book Povos indígenas no Brasil: Perspectivas no fortalecimento de lutas e combate ao preconceito por meio do audiovisual (Indigenous Peoples in Brazil: Perspectives on Strengthening the Struggles and Fight against Discrimination through the Audiovisual), published in 2018. In 2019, she was one of the five finalists of the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice, awarded by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, in New York (USA). Currently, she is developing an app for teaching the Terena language in indigenous schools in Mato Grosso.