Rodrigo D’Alcântara (b. Rodrigo de Alcântara Barros Bueno) is a transdisciplinary visual artist, film/video-maker, and currently a PhD fellow in the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History at Concordia University (Montreal, CA). His research dives into the intersections between gender studies and counter-hegemonic studies, analyzing, updating, and subverting concepts and imagery that have contributed to maintaining a colonial structure in contemporary Latin America. In the course of his Bachelor’s degree at Universidade de Brasília, he was supervised by Prof. Dr. Karina Silva e Dias, from the fields of studies in contemplative art, urban landscape, and tourism.
In 2016, while a Master’s student in the Theory and Experimentation Program at the School of Fine Arts at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), D’Alcântara began to participate more frequently in collective art exhibitions, in the academic agenda, and to work as an independent curator. In 2019, D’Alcântara taught as a volunteer professor of the LGBT+ Institute of Brasília, in the fields of videoart and dissident images. Rodrigo’s dissident artworks have been screened internationally, in countries such as Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, among others. Co-supervised by Dr. John Potvin and Dr. May Chew, he is currently focusing on non-linear inquires and on rescuing non-hetero-cisgender ancestral views. He has been highlighting works of art produced mainly by contemporary Brazilian BIPOC LGBTQI2+ artists, who challenge the current patriarchal model exposing it as a reflection of the colonization process that is still so prevalent in these territories and worldwide.
