Paulo Herkenhoff (1949) is an Art Historian and Curator. Between 2003 and 2006 he was the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Formerly he was Adjunct Curator for Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and Artistic Director of the XXIV edition of the São Paulo Biennial (1998).  He is currently the Cultural Director of the Museu de Arte do Rio, in Brazil.