Roberto Conduru
Professor of History and Art Theory at the Rio de Janeiro State University. Since 2001, he has developed a project called Pérolas Negras – Experiências Artísticas e Culturais nos Fluxos entre África e Brasil (“Black Pearls – Artistic and Cultural Experiences within the Mutual Flow between Africa and Brazil”), out of which stemmed his book Arte Afro-Brasileira (“Afro-Brazilian Art” – C/Arte, 2007) as well as several essays, exhibition catalogs, and periodicals. He has also worked as a curator, a lecturer, and a professor of Afro-Brazilian and African Culture, teaching graduate, undergraduate, and extension courses.
