Marta Wengorovius was born in Lisbon, 1963. She graduated in Painting in 1988 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon. From 1989 to 1992, she was a scholarship holder at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. In 1990, she received a scholarship from the Luso-American Foundation for Development in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia. She studied and taught at Ar.Co. She was an Academic Observer in 1993 at Goldsmith College, London. In 1994, she coordinated, with Rui Sanches, the Summer Academy for Visual Artists, Estudos Gerais da Arrábida – Conferences of the Convent. She was awarded the Union Latina Painting Prize in 1994. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of Évora and is currently a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art at the College of Arts, University of Coimbra, where she is developing her thesis “One, Two, and Many”.
She has been exhibiting individually since 1989. Some of her most recent exhibitions and performances include “The Two”, Galeria Diferença (2020), “Bringing Colors Where They Are Needed”, Escola Nómada, Jardim Botânico da Casa da Cerca, curated by Filipa Oliveira; “The One, Two and Many’s Nomadic School”, Porta 14 (2019); “Black Velvet”, Cooperativa Árvore (2018), curated by Albuquerque Mendes; “One, Two and Many”, Natural History Museum, Lisbon (2018), curated by Paulo Pires do Vale; “Nomadic School – Appleton Square (2018); “Ecstatic Sphinx. Drawing and Animism II”, José de Guimarães International Arts Center, curated by Nuno Faria (et al.), 2017; “One, Two and Many – An Island on Display”, curated by Sarina Basta, Carlos Machado Museum, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores (2016); “Transmission, Recreation and Repetition”, Palais des Beaux-arts, Paris, curated by Sarina Basta (et al.) (2015); “Focus – drawings for use”, Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokolovsko, Poland (2013); “Reading Hut”, Library of the One, Two and Many, Trienal de Ar
