Born in Évora in 1964, she graduated in Sculpture from FBAUL, with a master's degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices from FBAUP, and holds a PhD in Contemporary Art from the College of Arts, University of Coimbra. She has taught illustration at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and at the Ar.Co art school. She was a programmer and training coordinator at the Lisbon Comic Library (2001-2005). She received the Young Portuguese Filmmaker award at Cinanima 1990 for her short film "A Love Story." She is currently an assistant professor in the Design and Multimedia course at the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of the University of Coimbra and the College of Arts. Her first solo exhibition, "Our Need for Consolation Is Impossible to Satisfy," was held at the Zé dos Bois Gallery, followed by exhibitions such as "Alice" at the Lisbon Comic Library, "Ce sex qu’est pas un" at the Neo-realism Museum in Vila Franca de Xira, and "Chora" at Gaivotas in Lisbon. Notable group exhibitions she has participated in include "Lisbon Re-creators of Meaning" at SESC Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; "Portugal: 30 Artists Under 40" at The Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway; "Gender in Art: Body, Sexuality, Identity, and Resistance" at MNAC-MC National Museum of Contemporary Art; "War as a Way of Seeing" at MACE in Elvas; "Everything Solid Melts into Air" at the Berardo Museum; and "The Philosophy of Money" at the City Museum, both with the artistic collective Sparring Partners (Alice Geirinhas, João Fonte Santa, and Pedro Amaral). She is also a member of Girlschool, her most recent artistic collective dedicated to performative art and sexuality classes, alongside Susana Mendes Silva. Some of her graphic works are published in the book "Alice" from the Lisbon Comic Library (1999). Other published books include Luiz Pacheco's "Isto de Estar Vivo" (2000) and the artist books "Our Need for Consolation Is Impossible to Satisfy #2" (2003), "Alice's Guest Book" (2010), "The Cabinet of Dr Alice" (2014), and "Visual Manifesto"