Alessandra Simões Paiva is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, in England. She holds a PhD in Latin American Studies and a Master's degree in Art History from the University of São Paulo (USP). She is a professor at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB) in Brazil, teaching interdisciplinary arts and cultural studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Alessandra is a member of the European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis (REBRAC), the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (ABCA), and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Her research focuses on gender, ethnicity, ecology, technologies, and geopolitics in contemporary Latin American art. Alessandra has authored over two hundred texts, including academic articles and art reviews in both mainstream and specialized media. She serves on the editorial board of the ABCA Journal Arte & Crítica (São Paulo) and has been a regular contributor of art reviews for ArtNexus Magazine (Bogota) since 2015. In 2012, she received the AICA Incentive Prize for Young Critics.