Paulo Herkenhoff (born 1949) is an independent curator and critic. From 2003–2006, he was director of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro. Previously Herkenhoff was adjunct curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at Museum of Modern Art, New York (1999–2002), and chief curator of Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (1985–1990). He was also artistic director of the 1998 24th São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo (1997–1999), and curated the Brazilian Pavilion at the 47th Venice Biennale, Venice, 1997. Herkenhoff recently co-curated Brasil: desFocos (O Olho de Fora), Paço das Artes, São Paulo, 2008 and contributed to the publication Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture (2008). He has also published texts on artists such as Raul Mourão (2007); Guillermo Kuitca (2006); Rebecca Horn (2005); Julião Sarmento (2004); and Louise Bourgeois (2003). Herkenhoff lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. [Last updated 2010]
