Neyde Lantyer is a Brazilian-born artist, curator, critic, and activist based in the Netherlands, moves across disciplines to explore the intersections of art, politics, and lived experience. Her multidisciplinary practice, spanning video performance, photography, installation, sculpture, and narrative, examines memory, migration, gender, and politics. She studied at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and earned a Master’s degree in Fine Arts/Intermedia from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal. In the Netherlands, she undertook studies in photo restoration, printing, video, and cinema at various institutions, and completed the program Histories and Theories of Photography at Leiden University.
Lantyer began her artistic career in Brazil in the 1990s, where she combined activism with experimentation and presented her first exhibitions. After moving to the Netherlands, she worked in photographic conservation and restoration from 2002 to 2012, alongside renowned photo-conservator Michiel Kort. This experience became a turning point, shaping her long-term exploration of memory and archives—themes that remain central to her artistic practice. Over the years, she has participated in numerous artistic initiatives and associations in the Netherlands, most recently the Amsterdam collective KunstRUIM, the NDSM Treehouse Studios and the NDSM Fuse.
As an independent art researcher, she developed the project 'Stories we Hold' exploring the disappearance of female identities from official archives documenting historical events in her home region, as well as from her own family records. Her master’s thesis “The Mountain as a Metaphor: exclusion, anonymity and invisibility of the female migrant artist (2021)” further expands this inquiry, offering a thorough investigation into into the position of displaced female artists in Europe. Committed to addressing gender inequality in the arts, she has curated projects highlighting the work of female artists, suach as the exhibitions Women House Amsterdam, at NDSM Fuse (2025), “Casa de Mulheres (2024)” at the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia MAM-BA, and the seminary “Female Protagonisms in Art, Architecture and Design” at the Faculty of Architecture of the Federal University of Bahia, both in collaboration with scholar and curator Alejandra Hernandez Muñoz, in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.