Tamara Crespin is the daughter of Luciana, who is the daughter of Dora, who is the daughter of Trena — born in the shtetl of Łódź, but who lived in Bom Retiro. With an ambition to always transform life into aesthetic practice, she researches the intersections between contemporary art and literature, performance, poetry, material culture, urban studies, and Jewish studies. She understands Jewishness as an intrinsic part of her work and diaspora as a place of possibility.
She is curator and cultural producer of Sala Projetos, an independent space for gathering and performance in Bom Retiro, São Paulo, and writes on memory, culture, and Jewish art for Arte Judío Latinoamericano (AJLA).
In 2025, she published the poetry chapbook Nas estações do metrô with Lapes Edições, from the Laboratory of Writing Practices at Unifesp. She currently writes on memory, culture, and Jewish art for AJLA (Arte judío latino-americano).
Her academic training includes being a special student in the Graduate Program in Modern Languages and Translation at the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo, affiliated with the Center for Jewish Studies, and a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Escola da Cidade, with an exchange semester (2022) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. She is the author of the undergraduate thesis Jewish-Diasporic Perspectives on Place, an essayistic, poetic, and literary investigation into defining the concept of "Jewish place," departing from its very absence. From 2021 to 2022, she carried out undergraduate research on City Writing: Methodologies, Appropriations and Urban Translations, with a grant from Escola da Cidade.
She has collaborated as designer and communications assistant at Escola da Cidade; as proofreader for the journal Prática Urbana; as illustration and layout assistant for the books Eugênio and A senhora da casa azul with illustrator Juão Vaz, both published by Editora Peirópolis; as layout designer, translator, and Portuguese-Spanish proofreader for the contemporary art journal Terremoto Magazine, and as graphic designer for the art editorial Temblores Publicaciones, both based in Mexico City.
She has published essays and texts in journals such as Cadernos de Pesquisa (Escola da Cidade), Nossa Voz (Casa do Povo), Times of Israel, Instituto Brasil-Israel, Archdaily, Revista Móbile (CAU-SP), Revista Prática Urbana, and Revista Empena. Her work has been awarded at the Museu da Casa Brasileira, and she served as curatorial assistant at the Museu Judaico de São Paulo.
She currently coordinates the Research Laboratory on Jewish Experiences in Brazil, in partnership with IBI no Campus, the academic arm of Instituto Brasil-Israel, and serves as coordinator of institutional development at Hineni, the LGBT+ inclusion initiative of the Jewish community of São Paulo and producer and communications coordinator of the Bloco Klezmer. She also works as a manager, producer, and programmer of cultural projects, independent researcher and curator, graphic producer and designer, with editorial and visual identity projects for cultural institutions and independent publishing.