Portuguese artist, Ana Vidigal was born in Lisbon in 1960. She completed the Painting Course at the Superior School of Fine Arts in Lisbon in 1984. After her graduation, she was a scholar of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation between 1985 and 1987. In 1989, she did an internship in metal engraving with Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos at the Casa das Artes de Tavira. In 1998, she was appointed as a resident painter at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Funchal. The following year, in addition to receiving the Maluda Prize for young painters, she was selected by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) to be part of a collection of paintings by 11 artists offered to Brazil, addressing the theme "The letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha". In 1995, she was invited by the Lisbon Metro to create a tile panel for the Alvalade station. With an extensive curriculum of awards and exhibitions, she is represented in important public collections such as Culturgest, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, MAAT, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art.