Galeria 111, Campo Grande, Lisbon, Portugal

Material: Mix technique on canvas Collection:

BIOGRAPHY

Ana Vidigal completed the Painting Course at the School of Fine Arts (ESBA) in Lisbon in 1984 and was awarded a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1985/87). She studied etching under Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, at the Casa das Artes in Tavira (1989), and was a painter in residence at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Fortaleza de São Tiago, Funchal (1989/99).

In 1995, she was commissioned by Lisbon Underground to create tiled panels for Avalade station, and again in 2002 – this time for the new Alfornelos station. In 1997, she was invited by the Portuguese Institute of Architectural Heritage to create a porcelain cup as part of the ‘An Artist, A Monument’ project.

She has been exhibiting as a solo artist since 1981, and has presented the following individual exhibitions over the last two years: Casa dos Segredos [House of Secrets], Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon; Austeridade e Pequenos Sinais de Fumo [Austerity and Little Smoke Signals], Municipal Gallery of Abrantes; Estilo Queen Anne [Queen Anne Style], Baginski Galeria/Projetos, Lisbon; Cine Mar(a)vil(h)a – Videos – Teatro Praga, Lisbon; the brain is deeper than the sea – Outros Olhares, Novos Projetos [Different Perspectives, New Projects], Museu do Chiado – MNAC, Lisbon.

She has taken part in many group exhibitions and is represented in various public collections, notably: Banco de Portugal, Lisbon; BES España; CAM, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Culturgest, Lisbon; the Berardo Collection; the Deutsche Bank Collection; the Manuel de Brito Collection; the Serralves Foundation, Porto; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon; MACE – Elvas Contemporary Art Museum, Elvas; Metropolitano de Lisboa, Lisbon; Museu do Chiado, Lisbon. In 1999 she was awarded the Maluda Prize and was shortlisted for the EDP Painting Prize in 2001. She received the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Prize in 2003. In 2010, CAM held a retrospective of her work titled Menina Limpa Menina Suja [Clean Girl Dirty Girl], curated by Isabel Carlos.

Biography provided by the artist

April 2013