Curator
London
Carolina Lio Rodrigues is a London-based curator and director of Looking Forward Art Projects C.I.C., working across contemporary art, ecology and socially engaged practice. Since 2022, she has curated and produced Slow Disasters, Andrew Merritt’s long-term project exploring artistic responses to environmental change, and since 2020 she has been a co-curator of Visible, an international platform for socially engaged art developed by Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto.
Her projects, exhibitions, and public programmes have been presented at institutions including the University of Luxembourg; the Museum of London Docklands; EAC Montevideo; the Hong Kong Arts Centre; and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, among others. She has been a Guest Researcher at MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, an Associate Researcher at Sheffield Hallam University, and a curator in residence at Fire Station in Dublin, the Goethe Institute in Sofia, and USF Bergen. She has consulted for institutions including the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou and the Baja California Cultural Institute in Tijuana.
Her writing has appeared in publications by Springer Nature and Nero Editions, as well as in various academic journals. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London, and completed CuratorLab, the post-master’s programme at Konstfack University in Stockholm.
Current work:
→ Founder and Director, Looking Forward Art Projects, London (2019–ongoing) – Link
→ Co-curator, Visible, Cittadellarte–Fondazione Pistoletto (2020–ongoing) – Link
→ Senior Lecturer and Unit Leader, Istituto Marangoni London (2020–ongoing)
→ Curator and Producer, Slow Disasters, UK/MX/ZA (2022–ongoing)
→ Co-Lead and Curator, AHRC/Future Observatory's Design Generator project Field Hospital (2026–2027)
with Arcade, London
John Wallbank
DAMA, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Torino
The project respond to the Baroque architecture of the space colonising it via contrasts with Wallbank's papier-mâche monumental sculpture.
2017
curated exhibition
Eutopia: L'Europa come corpo Complesso
Fusion Gallery, Turin
Renzo Marasca uses painting to reasons on ideologies and recent changes in Europe.
2016
curated exhibition
Acqua Aura: The Hidden Project
IIC Italian Institute of Culture and Galería H20, Barcelona
A show challenging the audience experimenting on new possibilities of display.
2015
curated exhibition
Philip Hui Kim Ho
Red Elation Gallery, Hong Kong
Solo show of the young Hong Kong painter depicting adventures in nature between tradition and fantasy.
2014
research
Neon Curatorial Exchange
Programme and award for young curators in UK and Greece organised by NEON Foundation, Athens, and Whitechapel Gallery, London in collaboration with Dimitris Daskalopoulos's
collection.
2017
presentation slides
Back to the Future: Can new art practices arise from curating archives?
Paper presented during the symposium 'Institutions and Archives' at Royal Festival Hall, London. Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Art and Royal College of Art.
2015
facilitated project
Renzo Marasca: Studio 13.2
Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona
Realised during Renzo Marasca's residency in Barcelona, the project re-elaborates the city landscape and the connection of its elements.
2015
curated exhibition
We Exist: Self-Portraits in Prison
Online exhibition documenting the participative project of Cristina Nuñez with a group of students of the Oslo Fotokunstskole and groups of inmates of three Norwegian prisons: Bredtveit, Ila and Ullersmo.
2016
research
MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
Research fellowship at the MACBA to research on Catalan contemporary art, with
special references to how political events influenced art practices from the Spanish Civil War onwards.
2015
curated exhibition
Cristina Nuñez: Someone To Love
Boiler Room, Oslo
Images forming a sort of "lifeline" and a video portray the artists and her family, investigating the relationships with and among them.
2014