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,