Joana Galego (b. 1994 in Cascais, Portugal) completed a BA in Painting at the University of Lisbon in 2016, and received a full scholarship in 2017 to The Drawing Year program at the Royal Drawing School in London.

 She has exhibited in the UK, Portugal, and abroad, including the solo exhibitions jardins at Galeria Belard, Lisbon, in 2024 and mole lunar sinal at Soho Revue, London in 2023.

 Joana has been shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2019 and awarded The Sir Denis Mahon Award from the Royal Drawing School in 2017. She has participated in artistic residencies at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy; Biennial Jatim in East  Java, Indonesia, and IIFA in Modinagar, India. The artist lives and works in South London, England.