Abdias Nascimento (Brazil, 1914–2011) was an artist, playwright, intellectual, and Pan-African activist whose multidisciplinary work across art and politics articulated a sustained vision of a more just Brazil. Interpreter of Brazil is the first US-based survey to comprehensively examine the full range of his work, positioning him as a key figure in modern and contemporary art global narratives. Working first in Brazil through theater and activism, and later in exile in the US—where his…