Naine Terena

1980, Cuiabá, Brasil

She has a master's degree in arts, a doctorate in education and a degree in Social Communication (UFMT).

A woman of the Terena people, she is a researcher, university professor, curator and artist educator. In 2012, she created a cultural enterprise called Oráculo comunicação, educação e cultura, which encourages the active participation of different agents in the arts, education, cultural and communication markets. She is the organizer of the collection of indigenous writers 'Tempos' - Ed. Sustentável, 2021. Terena was awarded Master of Culture of Mato Grosso (Brazil - 2020/2021).

She was the curator of the exhibition Véxoa - Nós sabemos (Pinacoteca de SP and Tufts University), one of the nuclei of the Desenho Vivo Festival (DF), the curatorial team of the Circuito Urbano de Arte (CURA), the Virtual Exhibition Rec-Tyty, Cine Curumin, Um século de agora (Itaú Cultural) and a member of the Judging Committee of the 13th International Architecture Biennial, among other curatorial works. She was a lecturer on the specialization in cultural management - expanding repertoires at the Itaú Cultural Institute, where she was a columnist, and on the indigenous intercultural Master's degree at the State University of Mato Grosso. She was a consultant for the construction of an indigenous curatorship at the Paranaense Museum. She undertook immersions in North American universities in 2023, with the aim of carrying out public activities in art and culture.

As an artist, she has dedicated herself to investigating the production of art and technology, as well as installations and textile art. She has taken part in the exhibitions Coração na aldeia e pés no Mundo (Heart in the Village and Feet in the World) (SESC Piracicaba), Histórias indígenas (Indigenous Stories) (MASP-SP), Bio group exhibition (UFMT), Cultures of Anti-racism in Latin America virtual exhibition (University of Manchester) and Hãhãw: anti-racist indigenous art, among others.