Kiki Mazzucchelli is an independent curator and writer working between London and São Paulo. Mazzucchelli was the curator of the two-partshow Mythologies and Mythologies by Proxy at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris in 2011 and at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo in 2013 (co-curated with Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes). Other recent curatorial projects include Beyond the Avant-Garde/ Bienal Naïfs do Brasil (SESC Piracicaba, 2012) and the series of radio programs OIDARADIO Conversations developed for the 30th São Paulo Bienal with Mobile Radio and Resonance.fm (2012).

Recent publications include “The São Paulo Biennial and the Rise of Contemporary Brazilian Art” (In Contemporary Art Brazil, ed. Hossein Amirsadegui and Catherine Petitgas, London: Transglobe, 2012) and a chapter on the São Paulo art scene in the publication Avant-Gardes of the 21st Century (London: Phaidon, 2013).

She holds an MA in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College and is currently a PhD candidate at TrAIN (University of the Arts) researching exhibition histories with a focus on Brazilian art.