Teresa Cisneros

Inclusive Practice Lead, Wellcome Collection

Teresa Cisneros is a Chicana Londoner. Originally from ‘La Frontera’ on the Mexico-Texas border, her practice stems from her roots rather than where she finds herself now. Teresa is a curandera, an arts administrator, a curator, and a lecturer. She has worked with art and education institutions ranging from Tate to Goldsmiths to Spike Island, exploring care, policymaking, learning, and institutional change. From 2016-2018 she curated Object Positions at the Showroom to explore cultural equity, decolonial processes, and colonial administration. Cisneros is a part of the collaborative project Agency for Agency and currently the Inclusive Practice Lead for the Wellcome Collection. Her 2018 work Document 0 is a series of conversations on art institutions, diversity work, and administration. She is interested in reconstructing systems and infrastructures at the heart of cultural institutions from the Twitter.

People, policy, and power: diversifying museums and culture.

As Inclusive Practice Lead at the Wellcome Collection, Teresa confronts the inequalities at the heart of the culture industry.

SEASON 3 / Episode 5 / 34:51 / 23 july 2020

Bonus episode / 42:52 / 9 March 2021