Andreas Valentin
Co-Program Head, Art and Art History; Senior Research Scholar
Affiliation: Visiting
Education: BA Swarthmore College; MA Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro; PhD Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Research Areas: Photography, Arts Practice, Film, Design, and Art History
Visiting researcher and professor of photography, film, and art history. PhD in Social History, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; MA in Art Studies, Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janeiro; BA in Art History, Swarthmore College, PA.
Andreas Valentin has worked for over fifty years in documentary and art photography, as well as experimental film and video. He has held solo shows and participated in numerous group shows in Brazil and abroad. He researches the history of photography and curates exhibitions. He studied and collaborated with Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980). Major institutions worldwide have shown the films and photographs they made together. He published a book about his lifelong relationship with the artist.
Valentin’s research interests include the Amazon, where he lived and worked for 15 years. His PhD dissertation on George Huebner, a German photographer active in the Amazon in the early 20th century, has been published in Brazil. Valentin has published three books of investigations on the folk culture of the Amazon.
He is a member of the Brazilian Anthropology Association and, in 2004, won its Pierre Verger Photography prize. In 2015, his “Berlin Rio: Routes and Memories” project won the Marc Ferrez photography prize from Funarte (the Brazilian National Art Foundation); a major exhibition of the project was held at Berlin’s Haus am Kleistpark in 2018