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Sabrina Moura (Ph.D., Art History) is a Brazilian writer, researcher, and curator currently based in the UAE, where she heads the Research program at Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Her research focuses on the networks of artistic exchange between Africa and Latin America, and the intersections between historical archives and contemporary artistic practices. Before relocating to Abu Dhabi, she was a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, where she developed the exhibition Travelling Back: Reframing a Munich Expedition to Brazil in the 19th Century, presented at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (2024).

She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Campinas (Brazil) and was a visiting researcher at the Department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University, supported by the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories program. In 2022, she was sponsored by UNESCO to conduct research in the collections of the Museu Nacional da República in Brasília, which led to the curatorship of the exhibition Aqui Estou (2023).

She is the author of Arqueologia da Criação (2022), a study on the work of Brazilian artist Rossini Perez—founder of the first printmaking workshop in Dakar in the 1970s—and the editor of 

Southern Panoramas: Perspectives for Other Geographies of Thought (2015), a volume that examines historical perspectives on artistic exchanges in the Global South.

Her writings have appeared in Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, Stedelijk Studies Journal, African Arts, Critical Interventions, Third Text Africa,  among others.

Her research and curatorial work have been funded by the Getty Foundation, ProHelvetia, the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Regional Council of Île-de-France, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), among others.

contact:
Sabrina Moura de Araujo
sabrinamouradearaujo@gmail.com