Mariana Lemos

Mariana Lemos is a curator based in London joing the DASH team as our Home-Based Future Curator in March 2026.

Working across performance art, affect, and crip phenomenologies, her curatorial approach is grounded in disability access and feminist methodologies. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths University of London (2020) and is an Associate Lecturer on the MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Arts (UAL). She is a member of the Feminist Duration Reading Group and a Board Member of SALOON London. Her writing has been published in Frieze, Art Review, and Flash Art. Recent projects include Duets (Teaspoon Projects, 2025), A Tragical Romance (Wonnerth Dejaco, Vienna, Curated By, 2024), Vaivém by Francisca Pinto (Ostra, Lisbon, 2024), DIG IN: Maisie Maris & Laura Mallows (Staffordshire St, London, 2023), and INSOMNIA by Leah Clements (South Kiosk, London, 2022–23). She is Co-Curator of Flare-up at Goldsmiths CCA (May 2026), exploring the poetics and aesthetics of disability.

Mariana says:“I’m really pleased to be joining DASH and Wysing Arts Centre as Home-Based Future Curator. I’ve long admired the care, rigour and commitment both organisations bring to disability justice and experimental practice. I’m especially excited to develop transnational crip conversations across the UK and Europe, and to explore home-based and digital curating as spaces for collective thinking, speculation and solidarity.”