Viviana Checchia is an Italian-UK curator and researcher known for her practice-based PhD on self-reflexive curating in the Mediterranean, focusing on situated knowledge and local engagement through contemporary art projects like Vessel. She explores curatorial methods in geopolitical contexts, emphasizing process, geography, and epistemology. She also contributes to discourse on artist residencies and their evolving cultural roles globally. Checchia is a director of Void Art Centre, Derry, and is co-directing Vessel, an international curatorial platform in Puglia.