André Pitol

Born 1989 in Jaú/Brazil.

André Pitol is an art researcher, curator, and professor based in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a PhD from the University of São Paulo. His practice combines research, teaching, and curatorial projects at the intersection of archives, art, and migration, approaching art history from an Afrotropic perspective.

He teaches in the specialization program in criticism and curating at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and has worked with cultural institutions including Pivô, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Instituto Moreira Salles, and Museu do Ipiranga in São Paulo; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin/Germany; the Institute of Contemporary Art; and Associação Cultural Videobrasil. In 2023, he co-developed the program School of Quilombism at HKW. In 2024, he received a grant from the Foundation for Arts Initiatives in New York/USA. He has participated in research residencies at ThinkArt in Casablanca/Morocco, and the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) in Ljubljana/Slovenia. In 2026, he organized the seminar Convex: Amplifications of Abstraction in Art at IAC in São Paulo.

Pitol curated Edival Ramosa – Nova construção totêmica (2024) and Edival Ramosa – Alfabeto solare (2026). He served as deputy curator for the exhibitions The Parable of Progress (Sesc Pompeia, 2022), Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice (36th São Paulo Biennial, 2025), Fields of Resonance (Museum of Contemporary Art, 2026) and Tomar a palavra/Reescrever o mapa (Museu da Língua Portuguesa, 2026). He is co-curator of the project Dense Moves/The Illusion of Boundaries (2026–2027), held at the ifa galleries in Stuttgart and Berlin/Germany.

André Pitol is a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude in cooperation with the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa).