dani neira is an interdisciplinary researcher working across curation, sculpture, text, and book-making. Grounded in methodologies of care, collaboration, and gathering, their practice is invested in alternative and affective modes of knowledge production. Drawing on queer theory, cultural studies, and speculative fiction, Neira’s practice aims to generate slippery sites that both articulate and desire beyond our sociopolitical present. Their recent research has traversed personal and cultural memory, mutable architectures, queer digital folklore, citational politics, and postnatural imaginations.

Neira holds a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria, and is the co-founder of the collaborative curatorial/publishing project the Dirty Dishes Collective. They have curated, exhibited, and participated in projects across Canada including at Open Space, Flux Media Gallery, the Vault Gallery, Crummy Gallery, UNIT/PITT, Artspeak, and Whippersnapper Gallery (upcoming). You can find their published writing and interviews in Femme Art Review, Peripheral Review, and ReIssue. Most recently, they were the Assistant Curator at Open Space (Victoria) and Curator-In-Residence at SomoS Arts (Berlin).

Neira is currently based between Berlin and the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, Canada).