Joanna Mamede, 

Brazilian-British artist and director working across moving image, installation, ceramics, and print. Moving between screen and material form, her practice explores how meaning is constructed, translated, and experienced through images, objects, and space.

 

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

2026

• Knowledge in a Fractured World | 25th Anniversary, Group Exhibition CRASSH, UK

• AA2A 30 years, Group Exhibition, CASC Gallery, UK

• Turner, Best Experimental Film, Braga Science Film Festival, PT

2025

• Broken Tech Broken Earth, Commissioned Sculpture, The Centre for Computing History, UK

• Willow Black, Passing Traces, Group Exhibition, Ruskin Gallery, UK

• The Anthill, Screening, Old Cavendish Laboratory , University of Cambridge, UK

2024

• Turner, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK

• Turner, ONED International Film Festival, CN + FR

• Turner, Mostra Livre de Cinema, BR

• Face in the Hole, Kirkleatham Museum, UK

• Face in the Hole, The Foundry, London, UK

• Turner, Jury Award Winner, Folkestone Film Festival, UK

• Turner, Rome Prisma Awards, IT

• Sem Mim, Festival Ecrã, BR

2023

• Turner, Audience Award, Pebbles Underground, CA

• Friend Art, Deptford X, Group Exhibition, London, UK

• Sem Mim, Videobardo

• Sem Mim, Mientras Tanto Cine, UY

2022

• Face in the Hole, The Art of Fake News, Group Exhibition, The Rich Mix, UK

2021

• Maybe Nymph, Future Now Symposium, UK

2020

• Maybe Nymph, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK

• Maybe Nymph, Berlin Revolution, DE

2019

• Face in the Hole, Group Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, UK

• Face in the Hole, Window Gallery, Central Saint Martins, UK

• Maybe Nymph, Gstaadfilm, CH

 

Education

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2019
MRes Art: Moving Image
Central Saint Martins, UAL, UK
Research: Transbordo: The Fear of the Other Word
Distinction Award

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2005
Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Mass Media Communications
Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Brazil
First Class

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Talks and Symposiums

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• How Can Artists Engage with Academics, Sociology Department, University of Cambridge, 2025

• Art for a Better World Workshop, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 2025

• Art and Social Challenges Workshop, King’s College London, 2024

• Art, Disinformation and Democracy: Face in the Hole, Burlington House, London, UK 2024

• Interrogating Spaces, London, UK 2020

• Art and Decolonization: Afterall and MASP, London, UK 2019

• Climate Emergency, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK 2019

 

Trusteeships

• LUX Moving Image, UK

• Equalities Work, UK

 

Residency

• AA2A Artist in Residence, Cambridge School of Art, ARU, 2024/2025

• ICGC, 2017

• Capacete, 2016

 

Publications

• Face in the Hole and Metal Anthropophagy Series, published in Zine 1 and 2: Decolonising the Arts Curriculum, 2019​