The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Bernardo Mosqueira is the founder and artistic director of Solar dos Abacaxis, in Rio de Janeiro (since 2015) and the director of the Prêmio FOCO ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro (since 2012). a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. He is the former chief curator at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in New York. Between 2021 and 2023, Mosqueira was the ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum, where he curated seven exhibitions. In 2020, he co-founded Fundo Colaborativo, the first emergency fund for artists and art workers in Brazil. In 2017, he received the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’ Arte, an international award for young curators, organized by GAMeC, in Bergamo, Italy. His recent exhibitions include Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths (co-curated with Laura Hakel and Olivia Casa, ISLAA, 2024); Korakrit Arunanondchai: but the words make worlds (Solar dos Abacaxis, 2024); The Precious Life of a Liquid Heart (ISLAA, 2023); Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot (New Museum, 2023); and Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente (co-curated with Margot Norton, New Museum, 2023). In 2021, Mosqueira was part of the curatorial team for the fifth New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone. In 2023, he was named by Apollo magazine as “one of the 10 most inspirational thinkers living in the US” in their 40 under 40 list. In 2025, Mosqueira was awarded the Vilcek Foundation Prize in Curatorial Work.

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