Artists
This is a list of professional Deaf and disabled artists, or disabled-led companies, who are actively seeking international partners and opportunities. Each artist or company currently has work ready to tour or for exhibition. We are proud to list companies from all over the world.
Search by art form, country, or by curated lists for a smaller selection of artists as selected by one of the named organisations or individuals.
We are eager to add new artists and companies to this global list. If you are a company which would like to be included, please contact us.
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Although many of the companies and artists listed here are artists with international experience, we cannot vouch for every company in this global list.
All companies are encouraged to update their profiles with information about new works, exhibitions, tours or performances. Not all of that work has been seen or can be recommended.
Disability Arts International takes no responsibility for the accuracy of the information listed by individual companies or artists.
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Simon Mckeown
Simon McKeown is an award winning internationally exhibiting visual artist renowned for his work which touches on and considers disability.
SMouTh – Synergy of Music Theatre
SMouTh is the eldest and most active music theatre company in the Greek region, with a large network of local, national and international partners.
Solar Bear
Solar Bear has built up a world wide reputation over the past 15 years for providing accessible theatre for marginalised groups and for providing accessible routes into building theatre as a career for deaf/hard of hearing artists.
Soozan Shahabi
Born in Tehran, Iran in 1985 Soozan Shahabi started to paint at the age of sixteen. She completed her secondary education in the field of Art in technical
Spare Tyre
Spare Tyre is a leading participatory arts company based in London, which creates and tours work across the UK and beyond.
Stay Up Late
Charity that promotes full and active social lives for people with learning disabilities.
Step Change Studios
Step Change Studios is an award-winning, pioneering dance company committed to making dance accessible for everyone
Stopgap Dance Company
Creates exhilarating dance productions of world-class standard, employing disabled and non-disabled artists who find innovative ways to collaborate.
Sue Austin
Sue Austin is a multimedia, performance and installation artist. Over an extended period of time her practice has operated as a vehicle to open up a thinking space around the materiality of the wheelchair.
Tanya Raabe
Tanya Raabe-Webber is an acclaimed disabled artist challenging the notion of identity within contemporary portraiture, often creating portraits of high profile disabled people during live sittings in high profile public art galleries and venues.
Tanzbar Bremen
Tanzbar Bremen creates big scale contemporary dance productions as well as experimental works as a group of mixed-abled dancers, choreographers, creative artists and dance educators
Teatr 21
Teatr 21 is an award-winning Polish theatre group whose actors are mainly people with Down syndrome and autism.
The British Paraorchestra
Pioneering a global movement to showcase disabled musicians with extraordinary abilities. Its mission is to end the limitations placed on them, not by their physical ability but by lack of opportunity.
The Vacuum Cleaner
the vacuum cleaner is an art and activism collective of one. Working across art-forms: including performance, installation and film, the artist addresses challenging and taboo issues such as consumerism and mental health.
THEAMA
THEAMA was established in 2010 as a professional inclusive theatre group, and in 2019 co-founded with the inclusive dance group EXIS a training facility within an inclusive concept for the performing arts.
Theater Hora
Theater HORA from Zurich is one of the best-known independent dance, theatre and performance groups in Switzerland. The group works regularly with important artists and collectives
Together! 2012
Working to make the main host borough of Newham an international centre of excellence for Disability Arts as part of the Paralympic cultural legacy.
Tony Heaton
Tony Heaton is a Visual Artist/Sculptor and Curator who works in a variety of materials from direct carving to assemblage and film. Much of his work reflects and responds to a disabling world.