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Ana Pérez-Quiroga

Coimbra, PT. 1960

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Biography

Ana Pérez-Quiroga (Coimbra, 1960) is a visual artist and performer. Graduated in Sculpture from the Universidade de Lisboa’s School of Fine Arts (FBAUL), she completed the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at ArCo – Art and Visual Communication Center (Lisbon, PT). She holds a Masters Degree in Intermedia – Visual Arts from the University of Évora (Évora, PT) and a PhD in Contemporary Art from the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, PT). She is a researcher at CHAIA – Art History and Artistic Research Center at University of Évora.

Her work themes focus on everyday life and its mapping, the importance of common objects and gender issues, materialized on different supports such as installations, objects, photography and performance art. She exhibits regularly since 1999, highlights including solo exhibitions at MNAC – Chiado National Museum of Contemporary Art (Lisbon, PT), National Museum of Ancient Art (Lisbon, PT), Museum of Folk Art (Lisbon, PT), Nogueira da Silva Museum (Braga, PT), Museum of Neo-Realism (Vila Franca de Xira, PT), the Convent of Christ (Tomar, PT), Municipal Photographic Archive (Lisbon, PT), Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection / MIAA – Iberian Museum of Archaeology and Art of Abrantes (Abrantes, PT) and MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon, PT). She has taken part in group exhibitions at Culturgest (Lisbon, PT), MNAC – Chiado National Museum of Contemporary Art (Lisbon, PT), Palácio dos Duques (Guimarães, PT), Centro de Arte de Salamanca (Salamanca, ES), Falconer Gallery (Grinnell, USA), China World Art Museum (Beijing, CH) and Villa Savoye – Le Corbusier (Poissy, FR).

She has attended international residency programmes, with scholarships from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Orient Foundation, Institut français du Portugal – Cité international des Arts and Criatório – Municipality of Porto. She was FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology scholar between 2013 and 2017.

Her work is featured in several public and private collections, namely: MNAC – Chiado National Museum of Contemporary Art, ArCo – Art and Visual Communication Center, Costa Rodrigues Collection, Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection / MIAA – Iberian Museum of Archaeology and Art of Abrantes, António Cachola Collection, Vieira de Almeida Collection, Municipality of Lisbon, Culturgest and EDP Foundation.

In 2015 she received the SPA – Portuguese Society of Authors Prize for the 2014 Best Plastic Arts Exhibition. She lives and works in Lisbon, PT.

Academic Training

  • 2021 Post-Doctoral research in Contemporary Arts, scholarship FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, CHAIA – Art History and Art Research Centre, Évora University (Évora, PT)
  • 2017 PhD in Contemporary Art, Colégio das Artes, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, PT)
  • 2007 Master in Visual Arts, Intermedia, University of Évora (Évora, PT)
  • 1999 Advanced Project Visual Arts Course, ArCo – Art and Visual Communication Center (Lisbon, PT)
  • 1999 Degree in Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, PT)
  • 1999 Advanced Visual Arts Course, ArCo – Art and Visual Communication Center (Lisbon, PT)
  • 1993 Specialized Higher Education Course – Urban Furniture Design, School of Decorative Arts – Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Foundation (Lisbon, PT)

Awards

  • 2022 Outstanding Artistic Project, Millenium BCP Foundation / Drawing Room Lisboa (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2015 Best Contemporary Art Exhibition of 2014, SPA – Portuguese Authors Society (Lisbon, PT)

Scholarships

  • 2021 - 25 Scholar, FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2021 Support for the production of Cinematographic Documentaries, ICA – Cinema and Audiovisual Institute (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2017 - 18 Criatório, Municipality of Porto – Russia and Spain (Porto, PT)
  • 2015 Institut Français du Portugal / Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, FR)
  • 2015 Orient Foundation (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2013 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2013 - 17 Scholarship, FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2008 Orient Foundation (Lisbon, PT)

Collections

  • Vasco Santos Collection (Lisbon, PT)
  • MNAC – Chiado National Museum of Contemporary Art (Lisbon, PT)
  • Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection (Lisbon, PT)
  • João Luís Traça Collection (Lisbon, PT)
  • ArCo – Art and Visual Communication Center (Lisbon, PT)
  • António Cachola Collection (Lisbon, PT)
  • Municipality of Lisbon (Portugal)
  • Municipality of Lisbon, Department of Urban Furniture (Lisbon, PT)
  • Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection / MIAA – Iberian Museum of Archaeology and Art of Abrantes (Abrantes, PT)
  • Manuel de Brito Collection (Lisbon, PT)
  • Vieira de Almeida Collection (Lisbon, PT)
  • Museum of Neo-Realism (Vila Franca de Xira, PT)
  • PLMJ (Lisbon, PT)
  • Artworks (Lisbon, PT)
  • Caixa Geral de Depósitos (Lisbon, PT)
  • EDP Foundation (Lisbon, PT)
  • Costa Rodrigues Collection (Ourém, PT)
  • Portuguese Institute of Santo António in Rome (Rome, IT)
  • Vasco Santos Collection (Lisbon, PT)