Eder Chiodetto


Eder Chiodetto is the curator of photography of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo – MAM-SP since 2006. In his career as an independent curator he has held important exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, such as Mythologies – Brazilian Contemporary Photography (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2012); Éloge du Vertige (Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2012); Generation 00 – The New Brazilian Photography (Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo, 2011) Look and Simulate – Photographies from Collection Auer (MAM-SP, 2009), The Invention of the World – Collection of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (Itaú Cultural, 2009, with Jean Luc Monterosso), and others.

As a photographer and writer, Chiodetto is the author of the book “The Writer’s Place” (Cosac Naify), one of the winners of Jabuti Prize (2004). Chiodetto was professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at SENAC University, in São Paulo (2005 – 2009). He currently coordinates four groups of studies of contemporary photography in his studio, which guides the work of over 60 photographers who develop experimental work in the field of visual arts and documentary photography.