Michael Asbury

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The Anglo-Brazilian art historian, curator and art critic is a founding member of the research centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) at UAL, and its deputy director since 2012. An internationally recognised scholar of modern and contemporary art from Brazil, he has curated exhibitions in the UK, Europe and Latin America, having worked in organisations such as Tate Modern, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Camden Arts Centre, and an extensive writing output including editions by institutions such as MAXXI Rome; ICA Miami; Whitechapel Gallery; Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo; Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba; Ella Fontanals-Cisneiros Collection, Miami; Astrup Fearnley Musset, Oslo; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Documenta 12, Kassel; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; and Tate.

Caroline Carrion

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Bienal de São Paulo’s chief communications officer, Caroline Carrion holds bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and journalism from Universidade de São Paulo, alongside a degree in Intercultural Management and Communication at Université Paris IV, Sorbonne. Author of texts for exhibitions and artists books, in Brazil and abroad, Ms Carrion works in the arts since 2008, alternating curatorial and managerial roles. In 2015 she curated Eccoci!, an urban intervention project by artist Berna Reale held in public areas of scarce touristic access in Venice, during the opening and closing weeks of the 56th Biennale, and was one of the emergent guest curators of the Prêmio CNI SESI SENAI Marcantonio Vilaça para as Artes Plásticas.

Frances Reynolds

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Frances Reynolds is the Founder and President of the Fundación Arte Viva in Europe and Inclusartiz Institute in Brazil, non-profit organisations which promote cultural initiatives to bring art, culture and education closer to all sections of society, through initiatives varying from hosting international artist and curator residencies to supporting and promoting educational projects and art exhibitions in leading cultural organisations, with the objective of creating a platform for cultural dialogue and social transformation. An experienced patron and an active supporter of the arts, Ms Reynolds holds a collection spanning over 80 years of international output, and sits on the board of institutions such as Tate, Centre Georges Pompidou, Delfina Foundation, Royal Academy of Arts, MoMa, ARCO Madrid, MASP, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, among others.

Carsten Recksik

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Carsten Recksik studied art and public space at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremburg (2003) and sculpturing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (2006). He has been involved in a range of art projects as a curator, including work with the German Embassy in London as part of the 2010 Frieze Fair and the ICA in London. Carsten Recksik was appointed Publisher at ArtReview Ltd in 2019. Founded in 1949, ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines, dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach. ArtReview Asia, founded in 2013, explores the diversity of artistic expression across the world’s largest continent and looks at the societal role art plays in an Asian context.

Paulo Vieira

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A lawyer by training with a bachelor’s degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and master’s at University of Cambridge, Paulo Vieira has a consolidated career in corporate law as a founding diretor of firm Vieira Rezende. As an international arts administrator, collector and patron, Mr Vieira is the first non-European to chair Tate’s International Board, a position held since 2022 in tandem with his role as the executive director of Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. Among his first institutional activities since embracing an intensive involvement in the culture industry from the early 00’s, Vieira has also held the position of president of the Associação de Amigos da Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage between 2003 and 2007.

Yukie Watanabe

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With a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Universidade Federal do Paraná, Yukie Watanabe is a fourth-generation nikkei Brazilian diplomat. Among the positions she has held since joining diplomacy in 2007 is head of the cultural section of the Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo (2012-2015), and in Cairo (2016-2018). Her core responsibilities as the incumbent chief coordinator of the Historical Heritage section of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs include to identify, manage, preserve and disseminate historical and artistic collections held by the department in dozens of countries, in Brazil’s diplomatic missions across the world and at the Itamaraty headquarters in Brasília.

Jenny White FRSA

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After 32 years working for the British Council in Japan, Thailand, and Cuba, Jenny White left her position as Head of Visual Arts Programme to become the CEO of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Established in 1985 as a non-governmental, non-profit making body, the Sasakawa Foundation fosters collaboration and exchange among cultures and societies in the UK and Japan. Ms White is an experienced arts administrator with a particular interest in multilateral cooperation, visual arts and ecology, and believes that we can learn from an international approach to responding to climate change. She is co-chair of London based A.P.T Art Gallery and Studios, a trustee of ATMA Dance, and a visiting fellow for International Art Projects at the University of Derby.

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