Presently working as a curator and researcher at the Macau Museum of Art, Saraiva has curated “Representing Women 19th and 20th Centuries - MAM Collection” and co-curated Women Artists - 1st International Biennale of Macau, among others exhibitions and programmes. She is the founder of BABEL – Cultural Organization, where she has initiated projects like Influxus, New Visions and Macau Architecture Promenade (MAP).
Saraiva is a lecturer of Museum Management and Exhibition Design at the Institute of Tourism Studies and at the University of Saint Joseph, both in the Bachelor and Master Degrees in Heritage Management, respectively.
From 2011 to 2013, Saraiva was Head of Education at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Porto/Portugal), working with institutions such as Tate Modern and Louisiana Museum of Art.
Saraiva is a PhD Student in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School (Switzerland/ Malta), learning from Boris Groys, Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler and other contemporary thinkers. She has completed the course Curating the Contemporary coordinated by Simon Sheikh and offered by Goldsmith University of London at the British School of Rome. Saraiva holds a Master of Arts in European Cultural Planning and Policies by De Montfort University, Leicester (UK), a Post Graduation in Cultural Tourism by the Institute of European Studies of Macau (China). Saraiva attended a Post Graduation in Museum Studies (Portugal) and is Licentiate in History by the Faculty of Humanities of Oporto University.