Carolina Rito
Carolina Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, Coventry University; and Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Carolina is a researcher and curator whose work explores ‘the curatorial’ as an investigative practice, expanding practice-based research in the fields of curating, visual arts, visual cultures and cultural studies. As Visiting Scholar Researcher at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Carolina will work on a conceptual framework for curatorial research and recommendations to support the development of high standard curatorial research in the cultural sector and academia. Rito is European Artistic Research Network Curatorial Studies Working Group member; and Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project “The Role of Visual Arts Organisations in the British Black Arts Movement in the Midlands” (2021-2023). Rito’s publications include Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg, 2020), Architectures of Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020), and FABRICATING PUBLICS: the dissemination of culture in the post-truth era (Open Humanities Press, forthcoming). She holds a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she taught from 2014 to 2016.
School of Visual Arts
Grant duration: 6 months