Anaïs Castro is a curator and writer based in New York and Montreal.

She holds a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating and Criticism from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art History from Concordia University. Over the past 15 years, she has held positions at various institutions including, the National Gallery of Canada, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Art Mûr, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Stills - Scotland’s Centre for Photography.  She worked alongside Gaëtane Verna as an Assistant Curator on Kapwani Kiwanga’s project for the Canada Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Castro has independently curated exhibitions and projects in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, and China, including Cruel to be Kind (Montreal, 2023), Material Knowledge (New York, 2022), Mystic Toolkit (San Antonio, 2022 and Montreal, 2020), Ground Control (Berlin, 2019) and Over My Black Body (Montreal, 2019 and Berlin, 2018). She is one of the founding members of the curatorial collective The Department of Love, which presented projects in Shanghai, London and online.

Castro was part of the inaugural Shanghai Curators Lab (2018), was a Curator in Residence at the International Studios & Curatorial Practice (Brooklyn, 2021), Artpace (San Antonio, 2019), Art in General (Brooklyn, 2019), Titanik (Turku, 2017) and a Visiting Critic at BCA (Burlington, 2016). She has been invited to speak at various institutions, including Parsons School of Art and Design (New York), Triangle Arts Association (New York), Centre Clark (Montreal), The School of Visual Arts (New York), la Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal) and others. She is an editorial member of Daily Lazy and publishes regularly with various publications.