Ayrson Heráclito is an Ogã of Jeje Mahi in Salvador, professor at UFRB in the city of Cachoeira/Ba, visual artist and curator. PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC São Paulo, Master in Visual Arts from UFBA. His works of installations, performances, photographs and audiovisuals deal with elements of Afro-Brazilian culture and its connections between Africa and its diaspora in America. He participated in the Luanda Triennial in Angola, 2010, Bamako Biennial of Photography in Mali, 2015 and in 2017 of the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy and 2023, receives the award, together with partners, the Golden Lion of the Brazilian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. He has works in the collections of the Musem der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt, Museu de Arte do Rio, MAR, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Videobrasil and Coleção Itaú. He was one of the chief curators of the 3rd Biennial of Bahia, guest curator of the nucleus "Routes and Transes: Africas, Jamaica and Bahia" in the Afro-Atlantic Stories project at MASP and received the Artist Residency award in Dakar from Sesc_Videobrasil and Raw Material Company, Senegal. In 2020 to 2022 he held the exhibition Yorùbáiano at MAR and Pinacoteca de São Paulo.