ANDREIA SANTANA (1991, Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in New York. She graduated in Plastic Arts from ESAD.CR, took part in the Independent Studies Programme at Maumaus, in Lisbon, and in the MFA Studio Art programme at Hunter College – CUNY, New York, under a Fulbright/Carmona e Costa Foundation scholarship. Her work has been shown internationally in institutions such as: Belém Cultural Centre; Serralves Foundation’s Museum of Contemporary Art; In extenso (Clermont-Ferrand, France); José de Guimarães International Centre for the Arts; Hangar – Artistic Research Centre; Spazio Leonardo/Leonardo Assicurazioni–Generali Milano, Italy; Elvas Contemporary Art Museum; Filomena Soares Gallery; Porto Municipal Gallery; Peninsula Art Space, New York; Lisbon Municipal Galleries; Chiado 8. Santana has received several awards, prizes and scholarships, including: the NOVO BANCO Revelation Prize; a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Visual Arts scholarship; the Criatório grant (PLÁKA – Porto City Council); the DucatoPrize (Parma and Piacenza); and the Expositions – Gulbenkian support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s delegation in France.
