Quoting name: Afonso Dias Ramos
Professional Category: Researcher
Position(s) within IHA: SC Member | RG Member [Art Theory, Historiography and Criticism]
Thematic areas: Visual Culture, Heritage, Photography
Contact: afonsoramos@fcsh.unl.pt
CIÊNCIA ID: 2214-7BB8-066E
ORCiD: 0000-0001-5282-7067
Biography
Afonso Dias Ramos is a Researcher at the Art History Institute (NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), an Associate Editor of Revista de História da Arte, and a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Art History at NOVA FCSH. He was a Guest Lecturer at Coimbra University, a Visiting Scholar at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, and an Art Histories Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin. He holds an MA and received his PhD in the History of Art from University College London. He has previously worked at the Gulbenkian Modern Art Centre and studied History of Art at NOVA FCSH and Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). He recently co-edited the books Ernesto de Sousa 1921-2021: uma criação consciente de situações, uma situação consciente de criações (IHA, 2023), Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975 (Palgrave, 2023), Activism: Documents of Contemporary Art (MIT Press, 2023), and edited The Surrealist Castle of Mário Cesariny (Documenta, 2023). Some of his writing on contemporary art, visual culture and colonial history can be found in academic monographs and journals such as Burlington Contemporary, Electra, History Workshop, Journal of Contemporary History, or Oxford Art Journal.
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Afonso Dias Ramos é Investigador no Instituto de História da Arte (NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Editor Associado da Revista de História da Arte, e Professor Auxiliar Convidado no Departamento de História da Arte da NOVA FCSH. Foi Professor Auxiliar Convidado na Universidade de Coimbra, Investigador Convidado no Museu Calouste Gulbenkian e bolseiro pós-doutoral no Forum Transregionale Studien/Freie Universität Berlin. Concluiu um mestrado e doutoramento em História da Arte pelo University College London. Trabalhou no Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, após estudar na NOVA FCSH e na Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV. Co-editou recentemente os livros Ernesto de Sousa 1921-2021: uma criação consciente de situações, uma situação consciente de criações (IHA, 2023), Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975 (Palgrave, 2023), Activism: Documents of Contemporary Art (MIT Press, 2023), e editou O Castelo Surrealista de Mário Cesariny (Documenta, 2023). Alguns dos seus textos sobre arte contemporânea, cultura visual e história colonial podem ser encontrados em monografias académicas e revistas como Burlington Contemporary, Electra, History Workshop, Journal of Contemporary History, ou Oxford Art Journal.
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Abbreviations:
SC – Scientific Council
RG – Research Group