Diana Anselmo

Fellowship

Diana Anselmo is a Deaf visual artist and performer, activist, and improvised human being.

Bilingual in LIS (Italian Sign Language) and Italian, she made her debut with her first performance Autoritratto in tre atti (2021), which is still being presented at various festivals in Italy and internationally (Serbia, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, Cyprus).

Abroad, she made her debut in Berlin, performing in Le Sacre du Printemps (2022) by Xavier Le Roy. Recently, she exhibited her first solo show Je Vous Aime at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation (2024), and is now represented by Galleria Eugenia Delfini.

She is one of the founders of Al.Di.Qua. Artists, the first European association for artists with disabilities, where she has participated in various European festivals (Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Latvia). She is the youngest member of the Cultural Advisory Board of the British Council.