Lisa Blackmore

Lisa Blackmore is a researcher, curator and educator, working with art and water cultures in Latin America. Since 2018, she has been directing entre—ríos, a platform whose collaborative methodologies (re)connect diverse communities to bodies of water through curatorial, editorial and pedagogical projects. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex, UK. In 2023, she was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow for her project Imagining the Hydrocommons: Art, Water and Infrastructure in Latin America. Her recent publications include "Water" in Handbook to Latin American Environmental Aesthetics (2023) and the co-edited volume Hydrocommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy and Care Practices in the Americas (2024).