Valéria Piccoli is the Ken and Linda Cutler Chair of the Arts of the Americas and curator of Latin American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Born and raised in Brazil, she studied architecture at the University of São Paulo and previously worked at the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. She has collaborated on numerous international research and exhibition projects, among them Terra Brasilis, part of the Europalia Brésil festival, and Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic.