Born in Brazil, Carolina Filippini obtained her PhD in Visual Arts from the University of Campinas, Brazil, and her master's from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Department of the History of Art of the University of California, Riverside, and a Visiting Researcher at the Center of Research in Art and Heritage of the National University of San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research focuses on Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art, Art and Authoritarianism across the Americas, Women Artists, and Feminist Theory.

Dr. Filippini’s publications include book chapters and peer-reviewed articles such as “Between Nymphs and Lullabies: Beatriz González's Productions and Strategies in Light of a Gender Perspective”, in: Natalia Gutiérrez and Pollyana Quintela (ed.), Beatriz González: the image in transit (São Paulo: Pinacoteca of São Paulo, 2025), “Cybèle’s Women: Representations of the feminine between the 1960s and today”, in: Ana Magalhães and Ariane Varela Braga (ed.), Cybèle Varela - Trajectories (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2023), and “Women, the domestic and the erotic in the Pop Art works of Teresa Burga and Teresinha Soares”, History Journal of the Federal University of Espirito Santo (2019). She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, which analyzes the trajectories and critical reception of women artists from Brazil, Argentina, and Peru working with Pop Art and New Figuration in the 1960s and 1970s. She has a professional background in curatorial work, including positions at institutions such as Japan House São Paulo and La Maison Rouge Paris.