ANA PÉREZ QUIROGA

Coimbra, Portugal (1960)

Lives and works between Lisbon and Xhangai. Graduated in Sculpture by FBAUL, she also made other courses: Advanced Visual Arts Course at Ar.Co and a Master in Visual Arts and Inter-media at the Universidade de Évora.

She works mainly with installation and photography and her themes go from the institutional critic to a more personal universe of references. She has been presenting her artistic work on a regular basis since 1999, in significant institutional group shows such as Disseminações, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal (2001), Comer o no Comer, Salamanca Art Centre, Spain (2002), Where Are You From? Contemporary Art from Portugal, Grinnell, Iowa, USA (2008). She had also solo shows in Lisbon, at the Museu do Chiado /MNAC (1999) and Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (2004). Her work is represented in important collections: Isabel Vaz Lopes (in deposit at the Museu do Chiado /MNAC), Caixa Geral de Depósitos and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.