Curator, CAM – Modern Art Centre Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Patrícia Rosas (b. 1981, Lisbon) is a curator based in Lisbon. In 2005 she joined The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s CAM (Modern Art Centre), where she has continued her professional development. She currently works as a curator and is responsible for managing the works on paper within the CAM collection. Her first major exhibition, Homage to Julio (2013), was critically acclaimed. Since 2010, she has worked as Executive Coordinator of the catalogue raisonné of painter António Dacosta, which is available online since October 2014.

In 2009, Patrícia earned a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art History, in Lisbon, with a dissertation titled Space, Body and Gesture: three experimental films by Portuguese artists from the 1970s. She is currently a PhD candidate in Artistic Studies – Art and Mediations at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. During this period she participated in the three-month international summer residency at the Node Centre for Curatorial Studies (2013, Berlin). She has also continued to contribute to both web and print expert journals and has written exhibition reviews and published several articles and essays related to various issues in contemporary art.