Denise Ferreira da Silva

An artist and philosopher, she is Professor of Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University where she researches into global questions from an anticolonial, Black feminist standpoint. She is author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), A dívida impagável (2019 – in English Unpayable Debt, 2022), and she has coedited works on race and economics, including Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013). In the audiovisual domain, she has codirected films including Serpent Rain (2016) and Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum (2020), and has worked in the area of relational art with, for example, Poethical Readings with Valentina Desideri.

She has exhibited and lectured in such venues as the Centre Pompidou, the MACBA, the MoMA, and Documenta14, and has been visiting professor at Penn, Toronto, and Copenhagen universities. In 2023, she held the international chair in contemporary philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris 8, France.