Born in Tallinn, Estonia, Vera Fonseka has been living in Portugal for twenty years. She holds a degree in Fine Arts – Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, obtained in 2014. Since 2011, she has been exhibiting in various spaces and institutions throughout the country, including the collective exhibition “FABLAB, Experimental Protocol” at the National Museum of Portalegre (2014), the solo exhibition “Semi Automatic Sweet” at the António Prates Gallery (2014), and “ARTLAB – Symbolic Protocol” at the FBAUL Gallery in Lisbon (2016).
In 2017, she was invited to participate in the PA-REDES festival in Lisbon. She is currently an artist-in-residence at SAFRA (Arts and Entertainment), and has been represented by the António Prates Gallery since 2015. Her work is also represented in private collections in Portugal and abroad, including Estonia, Angola, and Mozambique.
In 2023, she completed a Master’s degree in Clinical and Health Psychology at FPUL – Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon. She is currently developing a therapeutic workshop project, combining her painting work with Clinical Psychology, with the aim of improving the mental health of participants.
