Ana Catarina Pinho is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work intersects visual studies, documentary practices, and archival theory. She earned a PhD from the European Centre for Documentary Research (eCDR), at the University of South Wales, UK, supported with a doctoral fellowship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Pinho currently holds a research position at the Institute of Art History (IHA), Nova University of Lisbon; she is a member of the Global Art Archive project at the University of Barcelona; and serves on the editorial board of Arte y Sociedad published by the University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.
As the founding director of ARCHIVO since 2012, she has established a platform that connects theory and practice within visual culture and the arts. She is the founding editor of the Archivo Papers Journal and the convener of the Reframing the Archive international conference.