Cristiana Tejo (Recife, 1976) holds a PhD in Sociology (UFPE), co-manages NowHere project and space, an experimental initiative for research, dialogues, and practices in Contemporary Art, which is based in the center of Lisbon and co-curates Residency Belo Jardim, in the Agreste region of Pernambuco/Brazil. She has been a curator for over 20 years. She is a researcher at the Institute of Art History at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and was a researcher for the academic project Artists and Radical Education in Latin America: 1960s and 1970s. She coordinates the artists residency at the Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística, in Lisbon, and has been dedicated to projects aimed at international exchange between Brazil and Portugal, the professionalization of artists and thinking about the field of art curatorship from a decolonial perspective. She published and co-organized the Visual Artist Guide – Insertion and Internationalization, edited by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil in partnership with UNESCO (2018). She is an art adviser to the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo. She lives and works in Lisbon.