Maria Pia Oliveira was born in Lisbon in 1964. She currently lives and works in Lisbon. She studied Fine Arts at Ar.Co in Lisbon and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Maria works in various mediums including sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, video, and ceramics. She has been exhibiting regularly since the 1990s. From 2006 to 2013, she participated in and organized exhibitions for the Colectivo Laboratório. Her work is represented in various public and private collections in Portugal and abroad.
Grants:
Artistic Creation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon – 2001
Portuguese Photography Center, CPF, Porto – 2001
Luso-American Foundation for Development, Lisbon – 1995
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Burning Worlds, Salão Belas Artes, Lisbon – 2017
Walking Through the Skies, Giiefarte, Lisbon – 2015
Clearing the Dense Accumulated Clouds, Palácio Belmonte, Lisbon – 2011
Gravity, Ermida de Belém, Lisbon – 2010
Clothilde + Celeste, Casa da Cerca – CAC, Almada – 2009
(E)merge, Coimbra Water Museum, Coimbra – 2007
Observatory, Institute of Meteorology, Lisbon – 2005
Boom…, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto – 2005
On White Air, Pavilhão Branco, City Museum, Lisbon – 2003
How I Became a Cloud, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto – 2001
UP.UP, Sala Poste-it, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto – 2000
Travels, Galeria Diferença, Lisbon – 1999
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Metanoia, Galeria – Livraria Sá da Costa, Lisbon – 2017
Donations 2009-2014, National Tile Museum – 2015
Prometheus fecit, Soares dos Reis Museum, Porto – 2014
The Power of Making, National Tile Museum, Lisbon – 2013
50 Years of Emotional Refinement, Casa do Infante, Porto – 2013
Emotional Refinement, Casa do Infante, Porto – 2012
Secret Archives, Photographic Archive, Lisbon – 2011
Contemporary Ceramics,
