Mauro Cerqueira studied at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, in Guimarães. In 2009, he received an Honorable Mention in the EDP New Artists Award and, in 2008, together with the artist André Sousa, he founded the artist-run space ‘Uma Certa falta de Coerência’ (A Certain Lack of Coherence), an exhibition space that became a constellation of artists that included Babi Badalov, Stephan Dillemuth, Dan Graham, Mieko Meguro, Silvestre Pestana, Luisa Cunha, June Crespo, Pedro G. Romero, Josephine Pryde, Rigo 23 and Daniel Barroca.

Mauro Cerqueira has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in national and international galleries and institutions, including the Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg, Institute for New Connovative Action, Seattle, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, MARCO/ Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Gas Natural Fenosa Museum of Contemporary Art, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, La Casa Encendida, Madrid. His work is represented in various national and international public and private collections.

Matilde Guidelli-Guidi is a curator and co-head of the curatorial department at Dia Art Foundation, where she organized exhibitions of work by Duane Linklater, Senga Nengudi, Cameron Rowland, Kishio Suga, Meg Webster, and Jack Whitten, among others, and edited the publications An Introduction to Dia’s Locations and Sites (2021), Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings (2023), Senga Nengudi: Populated Air (2025), and Artists on Agnes Martin (2026). She is responsible for overseeing Dia’s permanently sited works by Walter De Maria, Max Neuhaus, and Joseph Beuys, and as the organizer of the Artists on Artists Lecture Series, she commissions a growing roster of contemporary artists to respond to their peers and Dia’s institutional history.