Maria José Oliveira

Born in Lisbon in 1943, the artist completed the ceramics course at IADE (1973-1976). She attended the sculpture studio at ARCO in 1978/1979. She was a scholarship holder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1991 and received a work grant from the same foundation in 1996 for an exhibition at the Museum of Ancient Art: “Dimensions – From the Life of the Earth” in 1999. She was a guest professor in the Ceramics Department at AR.CO from 1991 to 1995. She received the International Contemporary Art Prize in Monte Carlo, Monaco, and her work is represented in various museums and private collections.
In 2017, she held an important retrospective exhibition of her 40-year career at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon, curated by Manuel Costa Cabral.