João Ribas (b. 1979, Braga, Portugal) is Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. He was previously Curator at The Drawing Center in New York, and his writing on visual art, film, and literature has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Sun, Art Review, The Guardian Unlimited, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction. He is a former editor at Art Review and LTB Media.
He is the curator of over thirty exhibitions and projects in the US and abroad, including: Rirkrit Tiravanija: Demonstration Drawings and Frederick Kiesler: Co-Realities, The Drawing Center, 2008 (Winner of the 2008 AICA Award for Best Exhibition in a Non-Profit Space) ; New Economy, Artists Space, 2007; Ryan Gander: Loose Associations, Performa07; and the Expanded Cinema online platform.
He has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogs and monographs, and has been a visiting lecturer for institutions and organizations such as Secession, Vienna; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Columbia University; New York University; RISD; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Boston University; The Cooper Union. He was previously adjunct faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and currently teaches in the Department of Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.
