Leno Veras

Background

About Leno Veras

I am a curator, researcher, and teacher who specialises in disseminating culture and science collections, focusing on new media strategies and information and communication technologies. Currently, I work as Head of the Historical Archives of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, besides as General Coordinator of the Future Collections program via the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development of the National Council at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Federal Government of Brazil. As a manager, I was Deputy Director of the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences, Head of Research at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art, Education Manager at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts and Coordinator of the academic programme at the Rio Art Museum. As a curator, as well as being responsible for various exhibitions in a wide range of institutions, I was a collaborator with the Goethe-Institut's Information Directorate for South America, the Institut Français, co-operating with the French Embassy and Consulates in Brazil, and the World Expo, contributing with the Institute of Architects of Brazil and the Export Promotion Agency of the Ministry of Development and Industry of the Federal Government of Brazil, as part of the jury for the next Brazilian pavilion for the Universal Exposition in Osaka 2025. I have also been in charge of multiple international cooperation projects with a global reach, such as Humanizing Development - through the Communications, Outreach and Advocacy area of the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth of the United Nations Development Programme; Hack Your Culture, in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons and the Open Knowledge Foundation; and My Body My Planet, through an agreement between the Natural History Museum, the Wellcome Trust and the United Nations Museum (UN Live). As a researcher, I hold a Specialist’s degree in the Production of Critical Texts and Media Dissemination of Arts from the Transdepartmental Area of Art Criticism at the National University of the Arts (Argentina), besides a Bachelor's degree with shared training at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Salamanca (Spain). I also hold a PhD in Communication Technologies and Aesthetics from the Postgraduate Programme in Communication and Culture of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. I have a field study at the National Museum and a doctoral internship at the School of Advanced Studies of the University of London at the Warburg Institute.