Ana Pérez-Quiroga was born in 1960 in Coimbra, Portugal. She lives and works between Lisbon and Shanghai. She holds a degree in Sculpture from FBAUL and has completed the Advanced Course in Fine Arts at Ar.Co, a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts at the University of Évora, and is currently in the third year of a PhD in Arts at the University of Coimbra. She is a grantee of the Foundation for Science and Technology.
She has been exhibiting regularly since 1999, with notable institutional participations at Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal – “Disseminações” (2001), Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain – “Comer o no Comer” (2002), Falconer Gallery, Grinnell, Iowa, USA – “Where Are You From?” Contemporary Art from Portugal (2008), MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Shanghai – “Made in Shanghai” (2008), Museu do Chiado/Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea– “Arte Portuguesa do séc. XX 1960-2010” (2012), and Palácio dos Duques, Guimarães – “Assalto ao Castelo em 3 Atos”.
Among her main solo exhibitions, she highlights “Breviário do Quotidiano #2” (1999) at Museu do Chiado/MNAC, “Natureza-morta” (2004) at Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, “From:, To:, Via:” (2012) at Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, and “Obra sem senão” (2012) at Museu do Neo-Realismo, Vila Franca de Xira. Her work is represented in the collections of Museu do Chiado/MNAC, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, and Museu do Neo-Realismo.
She primarily works with installation and photography, addressing themes related to institutional critique and Art History, referencing a personal and intimate universe. She focuses on found objects, the form of things, timeless images, and analyzes the body, its references and intersections, studies traditions and transmutations, and works on the metamorphoses of time sculpted, woven, assembled, and installed in personal memories, poetically transmitted in the silent space of contemplation.
