ROSANA PAULINO AWARDED JANE LOMBARD PRIZE FOR ART AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

ARTFORUM
OCTOBER 21, 2025

“The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School in New York has named Afro-Brazilian artist, educator, and researcher Rosana Paulino as the recipient of the 2025–27 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. Honoring outstanding achievements in art and politics and recognizing artworks that advance social justice, the prize took as its theme this cycle ‘Matter of Intelligence,’ centering expanded notions of ‘intelligence’ and the role of the arts in advancing social justice. Paulino was chosen for her 2016 artist’s book ¿História Natural?, which places images of Brazilian flora and fauna alongside colonial photographs of Black women and Indigenous peoples, foregrounding the taxonomic construction of racial hierarchy in Brazil. […]”