Mónica de Miranda was born in the city of Porto in 1976. She is a Portuguese artist of Angolan origin who lives and works between Lisbon and Luanda. As an artist and researcher, her work is based on themes of urban archaeology and personal geographies. She works in an interdisciplinary way with drawing, installation, photography, film, video, and sound, exploring the boundaries between fiction and documentary. She holds a degree in Visual Arts and Sculpture from Camberwell College of Arts (London) and a PhD in Artistic Studies from Middlesex University (London).
In 2019, she was nominated for the Novos artistas award at Maat and in 2016 for the Novo Banco Photo Prize, exhibiting as one of the finalists at Museu Coleção Berardo. Among her notable exhibitions are: Arquitectura e Fabricação at MAAT in Lisbon (2019); Panorama, Banco Económico (Luanda, 2019); Doublethink: Doublevision, Pera Museum (Istanbul, 2017); Daqui Pra Frente, Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, 2017-2018); Bienal de Fotografia Vila Franca de Xira (2017); Dakar Biennale in Senegal (2016); Casablanca Biennale (2016); Addis Foto Fest (2016); Encontros Fotográficos de Bamako (2015); MNAC (2015); 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (2014); São Tomé and Principe Biennale (2013); Estado Do Mundo, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2008). She is one of the founders of the Hangar project (Center for artistic residencies, Lisbon, 2014).
Her work is represented in various public and private collections, including Calouste Gulbenkian, MNAC, MAAT, FAS, and the Municipal Archive of Lisbon.
