Pedro Zylbersztajn
(São Paulo, 1993) /// pedrozylber@gmail.com

SOLO SHOWS AND PRESENTATIONS –
a known (yet undisclosed) number of rumors spread through the pages of a circulating library, Permanent installation/Comission, Pivô, São Paulo, BR (2023)
The Afterwake: Anaïs Horn y Pedro Zylbersztajn, Exhibition, Galería RGR, México City, MX (2023)
brickwork, Performance, Americas Society, New York, USA (2018)
“Como se eu fosse o fotógrafo” – Carlos Amadeu Gouvêa, 1971, Exhibition, casamata, Rio de Janeiro, BR (2016)

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS –
ALIMENTO, la_cápsula, Zürich, CH (2023)
Contact, Front Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA (2022)
Time Capsule 2045, Musée d'Art et Histoire, Geneva, CH (2022)
Time Capsule 2045, Palais des Beaux-arts, Paris, FR (2021)
Maputo Fast Forward 2020, Online/Maputo, MZ (2020)
Covideo-19, Online (2020)
L’Intolerable ligne droite, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, FR (2019)
Everyday, 12a São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, CCSP, São Paulo, BR (2019)
Sob a Gravidade de um Pequeno Sol, Solar Grandjean de Montigny, Rio de Janeiro, BR (2019)
Trembling Thinking, Americas Society, New York, USA (2018)
As If, Provisional Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2018)
In Our Present Condition (N–Z), Gallery 9, MIT, Cambridge, USA (2018)
The February School, Event Series/Performance/Installation, Wiesner Gallery, Cambridge, USA (2018)
In No Time, Lipchitz Courtyard, MIT, Cambridge, EUA (2017)
Mostra Ilha, Casa Kolor, Rio de Janeiro, BR (2015) (participating as Consultório)
No Man is An Island, Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, USA (2013)

PROGRAMS, RESIDENCIES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES –
Pro Helvetia Co-creation grant, with Denise Bertschi, São Paulo, BR, Zürich, CH and Neuchâtel, CH (2024)
coleção moraes-barbosa, Research program, São Paulo, BR (2023-2024)
Kulturhaus Villa Sträuli/Pro Helvetia, Research residency, Winterthur, CH (2023)
arte_passagem, Artist-run space, Coordinator, with Ilê Sartuzi, Matheus Chiaratti and João Paulo Quintella (2021-)
Art by Translation, Postgraduate Fellow, ENSA Paris-Cergy, / ESBA TALM Angers, FR (2019-2021)
micro-histories research group, Casa do Povo, São Paulo, BR (2020-ongoing)
Pivô Pesquisa, Pivô, São Paulo, BR (2020)
MISTI Portugal, MIT and Museu de Arte Architetura e Tecnologia (MAAT), Lisbon, PT (2017)

ACADEMICS –
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology (2016-2018)
[awarded with the ACT Year 2 Merit Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year]
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor’s in Visual Communications (2011-2015)
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Visiting Student (2013)

PUBLISHED ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND BOOKS –
Indexing Imaginaries, Co-editor, Book, DATA Browser/Open Humanities Press (2024 in preparation)
Here-and-nowness: Diaspora Tactics as Institutional Strategy at Casa do Povo, Article, with micro-histórias, Stedelijk Studies Journal #12 (2023) Im/possible Alphabets, Essay, Leonardo Electronic Almanac vol. 23 – Language Games (2021)
The Protagonists of the Future are Small Farmers, Glossary Entry, with Alice Noujaim, Weird Economies (2021)
Credit, Glossary Entry, with Alice Noujaim, Weird Economies (2021)
exil.io, Essay, Revista Rosa #3 series 1 (2021)
Écfrase de um filme (pausado), Visual Essay, Pivô Blog (2020)
“Formato Governa Acesso”: A poética computacional de Dennis Tenen, Review, Internet & Sociedade #1 (2020)
Planta Baixa Sonora, Essay, Noize #79 (2018)
an+bn=cn n>2, Visual Essay, Void #100 (2015)
Raio-X, Essay, Void #99 (2015)

CRITICAL TEXTS, REVIEWS AND CATALOGUES –
The Afterwake, Curatorial text, by Gabriela Rangel (2023)
Silvia Kolbowski, Julia E. Dyck, Maíra Dietrich, Falk Messerschmidt, Pedro Zylbersztajn: L’intolérable ligne droite in Art & Essai 2014-2020, Catalogue (2022)
Quem olha de longe acha que tá bagunçado, mas é porque não conhece, Desvio, by Daniela Avellar (2019)
Pedro Zylbersztajn: brickwork at Americas Society, Arte Fuse, by Alexandra Goldman (2018)
In No Time (1976-1993), Exhibition book (2017)
“Como se eu fosse o fotógrafo”, Fichário Casamata, by Laura Cosendey (2016)

PANELS AND LECTURES –
cinco livros comentando entre si sobre outros volumes que compõem a biblioteca que os hospeda, Performance-panel, Organizer, with Paulo Pasta, Flora Leite, Maíra Dietrich and Jandir Jr, Pivô's Library, São Paulo, BR (2023) Eat the Wor(l)d, Performance-lecture, Kulturhaus Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Zürich, CH (2023)
Paradoxa, Performance-lecture, with Laura Serejo Genes and Nolan Oswald Dennis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA (2022)
Indexicalities, Lecturer, with Laura Genes and Nolan Dennis, MIT Art, Culture and Technology, Cambridge, USA (2020)
Édouard Glissant’s Tout-Monde: Transnational Perspectives, Speaker, CUNY Graduate Center, New York (2018)
Johan Pas – Artist’s Publications: The Belgian Contribution, Respondent, MIT ACT, Cambridge, USA (2018)
Cultivate, w/ Abraham Adams, Panelist, Wiesner Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, USA (2018)
David Reinfurt – A Post-Industrial Postscript, Respondent, MIT ACT, Cambridge, USA (2017)

TEACHING –
Disposições Infraestruturais, Grupo de Estudo, Organizador (2021–2023)
CAMPO, Plataforma Pedagógica Experimental, Diretor Associado (2021–2022)
Infrastructural Dispositions, Study Group, Organizer, CAMPO (2021–)
Art and Infrastructure, Extension course, Instructor, Escola da Cidade (2021)
Synchronization of Senses (4.S33), Guest Critic, MIT, Instructor: Profª Renée Green (2020)
Index//Access – Workshop, Instructor (with Laura Genes and Nolan Dennis), SESC 24 de Maio, São Paulo (2018)
Orthographies: Drawing Operations (4.S13), Teaching Assistant, MIT, Instructor: Lucy Syiao Liu (2018)
Introduction to Artistic Experimentation (4.301), Teaching Assistant, MIT, Instructor: Profª Azra Akšamija (2017)
Information and Visualization (4.032), Teaching Assistant, MIT, Instructor: Ben Fry (2017)
Plástica (ART1051), Teaching Assistant, PUC-Rio, Instructor: Eduardo Berliner (2015-2016)