Pollyanna Freire was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1982. She studied plastic Arts at the Universidade Estadual de São Paulo and she holds an MA in Visual Languages from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She studied at Ar.Co and completed the courses: Individual Project in Cinema/Movement Image (2009-2010), Advanced Course in Visual Arts (2010-2011), and Individual Project in Visual Arts (2011-2012). In 2013, she awarded an Honorable Mention at the IV Certame de Desenho, Fundación Centenera Jaraba, in Spain. She has participated in group exhibitions: 25º Arte Pará, Fundação Rômulo Maiorana, Belém, 2006; Zona Oculta: entre o público e o privado, CEDIM, Rio de Janeiro, 2009; Bolseiros e Finalistas do Ar.Co, Museu da Cidade, Lisboa, 2013 and 2014; Me, Myself and I, Fundación Centenera Jaraba, Madrid, 2013, and O pouco ou muito a diferença é pouca, curated by João Silvério, Módulo - Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisboa, 2014.
Pollyanna Freire currently lives and works in Almada, Portugal.
