Ana Santos (Espinho, 1982) lives and works in Lisbon. She graduated in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto and she obtained a Masters in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies from the Nova University of Lisbon. She has also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe (Germany) and has been an artist-in-residence at the ISCP in New York. In 2013 she won the portuguese EDP Prize. Among her individual institutional exhibitions are Colecção primavera-verão, Culturgest, Lisbon, 2023; Itinerarios XXVII, Centro Botín, Santander; verão, CentroCentro, Madrid, 2021; Anatema, MAAT, Lisbon,2019; Thabalho, Chiado 8 – Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon,2010. Her work is present in the Serralves Collection and has been exhibited in this museum in 2018 and 2016, as well as in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris. She has been recipient of the Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grant 2019-2020.
Her work evolves from a daily practice of finding and accumulating various materials and objects. The materials do not have a fixed provenance, they can come from the street (found objects) or be acquired in several shops. The materials and objects may be subjected to simple acts of manipulation through chance and contingencies or, more recently, to transformations of greater technical complexity that require the use of specialized workshops. Recent developments of a formal and operative order are embodied, for example, in a family of works structured from exhaust pipes and other car components. These works possess a strange anthropomorphic suggestion, creating a latent ambiguity between the ready-made and the objects built from scratch. Colour has gained a decisive importance her work and the painting of the surfaces of the pieces is determinant to their appearance and final sense.
Curriculum Vitae (download pdf.)
Ana Santos (Espinho, 1982) lives and works in Lisbon. She graduated in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto and she obtained a Masters in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies from the Nova University of Lisbon. She has also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe (Germany) and has been an artist-in-residence at the ISCP in New York. In 2013 she won the portuguese EDP Prize. Among her individual institutional exhibitions are Colecção primavera-verão, Culturgest, Lisbon, 2023; Itinerarios XXVII, Centro Botín, Santander; verão, CentroCentro, Madrid, 2021; Anatema, MAAT, Lisbon,2019; Thabalho, Chiado 8 – Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon,2010. Her work is present in the Serralves Collection and has been exhibited in this museum in 2018 and 2016, as well as in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris. She has been recipient of the Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grant 2019-2020.
Her work evolves from a daily practice of finding and accumulating various materials and objects. The materials do not have a fixed provenance, they can come from the street (found objects) or be acquired in several shops. The materials and objects may be subjected to simple acts of manipulation through chance and contingencies or, more recently, to transformations of greater technical complexity that require the use of specialized workshops. Recent developments of a formal and operative order are embodied, for example, in a family of works structured from exhaust pipes and other car components. These works possess a strange anthropomorphic suggestion, creating a latent ambiguity between the ready-made and the objects built from scratch. Colour has gained a decisive importance her work and the painting of the surfaces of the pieces is determinant to their appearance and final sense.
Curriculum Vitae (download pdf.)