Susana Rodrigues is an independent curator and researcher in contemporary art, born in Portugal. Her practice operates at the intersection of art, critical thinking, history, and territory, with a particular interest in the social and political dimensions of artistic production. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Studies – Curatorial Practice from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto and in Creative Processes from the University of the Algarve, and is a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art at the College of Arts, University of Coimbra. Her educational background also includes a Bachelor’s degree in Management from the University of Porto, an MBA in International Economics and Management from SDA Bocconi in Milan, and studies in Art Business at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, where she subsequently undertook an internship at Sotheby’s.

She has participated in international curatorial training and residency programmes, notably Curator’s Agenda: Vienna (2015), in Vienna; the Autocenter Summer Academy, in Dortmund (2016); and ‘Commoning Collective Care – Curating on the Move’, an international workshop on curating and artistic practices held in Córdoba, in collaboration between TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and OnCurating (2023).

Curatorial projects include Mão de Baraka (Alfaia Association, Loulé, 2026), Operação Bangkok – Parts I and II (Espaço Fisga, Porto, and Galeria Trem, Faro, 2024), Colisor (co-curated, Faro Municipal Museum, 2023), Habitar-se | Coabitar-nos (Coimbra, 2021), TRACE, by Miguel Refresco (Lehmann + Silva Gallery, Porto, 2018), A ILHA (Sputenik the Window, Porto, 2016), I moved on until I went back (co-curated, University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2015) and Amor marginal (Centre for Art and Architecture - CAAA, Guimarães, 2015).

Between 2019 and 2023, she carried out cultural and artistic mediation work at Centro de Arte Oliva in São João da Madeira, exploring the relationship between contemporary artistic practices and different audiences. She also collaborated on exhibition and research projects, notably Trabalho Capital # Essay on Gestures and Fragments at the Oliva Art Centre (2019), and We Are All Captains – 50 Years of Freedom by Paulo Mendes, part of Braga 25 – Portuguese Capital of Culture (2025).