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Isabel Carlos (Coimbra, Portugal, 1962) is a freelance curator and art critic resident in Lisbon. She has curated the following exhibitions, among others: Sublime (Museu do Chiado, Lisbon 1994); The Day After Tomorrow (Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon 1994); Mediations (Palácio Galveias and Museu do Chiado, Lisbon 1997); Eve's - Paula Soares Triennial of India, (New Delhi, 1997); Entrada Azul - Helena Almeida retrospective (Casa de América, Madrid 1998); Trading Images - one year international exhibition cycle (Museu da Cidade, Lisbon 1998); Initiare (Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon 2000); Helena Almeida: Inhabited Drawings (The Drawing Center, New York, 2004) the Sydney Biennial of 2004, and more recently Por entre as linhas (Museu das Comunicações, Lisbon 2007). She founded and directed the Instituto de Arte Contemporânea (IAC) from 1996 to 2001, dependent on the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, whose international collection she set up and managed for three years. Whilst at the IAC, she organised a number of activities related to her post, amongst which were the Portuguese representations at the Venice Biennale of 2001, the London Art Biennial 2000, and the São Paulo Biennial of 1996 and 1998.