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California Institute of the Arts

João Ribas

Pronouns: REDCAT

Steven D. Lavine Executive Director of REDCAT

Vice President for Cultural Partnerships

Joao Ribas profile portrait
Email address: jribas@calarts.edu
Phone number: 213-237-2812
Office address:
REDCAT
631 W 2ND Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
Degrees:
  • New School for Social Research
Personal website: Website

João Ribas is Steven D. Lavine Executive Director and Vice President for Cultural Partnerships at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT). He was previously director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, where he also held the position of deputy director and senior curator (2014-2018); curator of the MIT List Visual Arts Center (2009-13); and curator, The Drawing Center, New York (2007-09).

 He is the winner of four Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA) awards (2008-2011) and of the Emily Hall Tremaine Award (2010). His writing has been published in numerous publications, monographs, and magazines, and he has taught at Yale University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts, New York, among other institutions. He was the curator of the 4th Ural Biennial in 2007, and the Portuguese Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.