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▸ curriculum vitae
Tania Rivera is a psychoanalyst and essayist who works in a multidisciplinary field, moving between psychoanalysis, philosophy, artistic and literary theory as well as practice, aiming to collect and unfold proposals for delineating the subject in culture at a micropolitical level and trying to contribute to gender discussions and the decolonization of thought. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (1996), and is a Full Professor at the Department of Art at Universidade Federal Fluminense, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rivera worked as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Plastic Arts at Paris 8 University, Vincennes Saint-Denis, in 2016. She won the Jabuti Prize for Psychology / Psychoanalysis (2014) for the book O Avesso do Imaginário, Arte Contemporânea e Psicanálise [The Reverse of Imaginary, Contemporary Art and Psychoanalysis], Cosac Naify, ( (2013). Her most recent book is Lugares do Delírio – Arte e Expressão, Loucura e Política [Places of Delirium – Art and Expression, Madness and Politics]; (n-1 Edições, 2023). Rivera also worked as the curator of the exhibition Lugares do Delírio [Places of Delirium], (Rio Museum of Art, 2017 and Sesc Pompeia, 2018), among other exhibitions.
▸ contact: taniarivera@id.uff.br