Luiza Testa works on projects that engage with social debates across feminism, sexuality, ecology, and digital art. She is the curator of the exhibitions Oh, I Love Brazilian Women! (apexart, New York – 2022), Ah, eu amo as mulheres brasileiras! (CCSP, São Paulo – 2023; MAC Niterói, Rio de Janeiro – 2024), Obscura (Vila Itororó, São Paulo – 2022), Compro! (Kovak & Vieira, São Paulo – 2023), A terra do mar (Espaço Alto, São Paulo – 2024), ESPANTO! (São Paulo, 2024), Etnogênese – O que é e o que pode ser (MAC Niterói, Rio de Janeiro – 2024), Manacá (Embassy of Brazil in London, United Kingdom – 2025), and assistant curator of Espirales Transatlánticas at the Havana Biennial (Cuba – 2024/25). In May 2024, she took part in the DOMUS Art Residency in Italy. She served on the Nominating Committee for the Pipa Prize 2025.
She holds a BA in Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP) and an MA in Critical Theory (Critical Theory and the Arts) from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2017), and was an intern in the Curatorial Department of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
In addition to her work in the visual arts field, Luiza is a translator.
In 2025, she served as assistant curator of Espirales Transatlánticas at the Havana Biennial, curated the solo exhibitions of Juli Manara (Manacá, at the Embassy of Brazil in London) and Carla Duncan (OMA Galeria). Luiza was also a juror for the Pipa Prize 2025.
In 2024, she curated A terra do mar, by Poli Pieratti, in São Paulo, and Etnogênese – O que é e o que pode ser, by Marcelino Melo, at MAC Niterói. She also launched ESPANTO!, a project that brings artworks to unexpected places, such as a laundromat.
In 2023, the exhibition Ah, eu amo as mulheres brasileiras! had two editions in Brazil: at CCSP in São Paulo and at MAC Niterói in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2020, her exhibition Oh, I Love Brazilian Women! was one of four selected from over 400 proposals and was presented at apexart in New York in January 2022. In the same year, she organized the exhibition OBSCURA at Centro Cultural Vila Itororó, in São Paulo.
In 2017, she was na intern at the curatorial department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Nova York.
