She completed her PhD at the University of California San Diego, and was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rice University in 2012. She has previously taught at Washington College in Maryland. Her research focuses on the history of contemporary art in Brazil with a special interest in the development of abstract art in the second half of the twentieth-century. Her work has been published in the journal nonsite and by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.