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Francisca Aires Mateus

Lisbon. 1992

Sonae Media Art Award, Musica Humana

Biography

Francisca Aires Mateus (Lisbon, 1992). BA in Painting by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, PT (2015), MA in Fine Art Media by the Slade School of Fine Art - University College London, UK (2017). Post-Graduation in Sound Art by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, PT (2020). Licentiate Degree in Violin by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, UK (2014).

A Calouste Gulbenkian Scholar in 2016, Aires Mateus was one of the recipients of the Arte Jovem Award, Carpe Diem - Arte & Pesquisa, in the same year. She was a scholar at the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2018. In 2019 she was a finalist of the Sonae Media Art Awards.

She exhibits regularly since 2015, having also developed various curatorial and production projects such as “São Roque”, London and “Casa da Dona Laura”, Lisbon, supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Academic Training

  • 2020 Postgraduation in Sound Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2017 MA in Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (London, UK)
  • 2015 Undergraduate Degree in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2014 Licenciate, Royal Schools of Music, The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (London, UK)

Awards

  • 2019 Nominated, Sonae Media Art Award, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2019 Selected artist, Portuguese Emerging Art Catalogue (PEAC), EMERGE (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2018 Selected artist, Portuguese Emerging Art Catalogue (PEAC), EMERGE (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2017 Nominated for the Max Werner Drawing Prize, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (London, UK)
  • 2016 Selected, Arte Jovem 2016, Carpe Diem - Arte & Pesquisa (Lisbon, PT)

Scholarships

  • 2018 Full Travel Grant, HKBU Academy of Visual Arts (Hong Kong, HK)
  • 2016 Full Scholarship, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, PT)

Artistic Residencies

  • 2020 OSSO, EIRA (Caldas da Rainha, PT)
  • 2020 Artistic Residency, Duplex AIR (Lisbon, PT)
  • 2018 Artistic Residency, Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong, HK)