Roberto Conduru

Endowed Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University

Roberto Conduru is Endowed Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. A leading scholar of Afro-Brazilian art, Conduru obtained his PhD at Universidad Federal Fluminense in 2000. Before joining SMU, he was professor of art history and theory at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and served as invited guest scholar at the Getty Research Institute (2012), and president of the the Brazilian Committee of Art History (2007–10). He is the author of Pérolas Negras - Primeiros Fios (EdUERJ, 2013) and of Arte Afro-Brasileira (C/Arte, 2012), as well as the editor of Axé Bahia – The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis (Fowler Museum UCLA, 2018; co-edited with P. Polk, R. Johnson, and S. Gledhill).