2022
Adriana Proganó
Júri:
Vera Pinto Pereira
Amanda Carneiro
Luisa Cunha
Marcio Doctors
Ana Rito
Miguel Coutinho
Adriana Proganó is the winner of the 14th edition of the EDP Foundation New Artists Award.
The prize was awarded unanimously by a judging panel chaired by Vera Pinto Pereira (president of Fundação EDP) and comprising Amanda Carneiro (curator), Luisa Cunha (artist), Marcio Doctors (art critic and curator), Ana Rito (artist, curator and researcher) and Miguel Coutinho (executive member of the board and general director of Fundação EDP).
According to the panel, "the work presented by the artist Adriana Proganó stood out for its boldness in producing something new within her own trajectory, in dialogue with the themes and languages to which she has been dedicated for some time". The panel also highlighted "the singularity of this proposal, which, combining irony and humour with institutional criticism, presents a renewed look at the practice of painting and its extension in the field of the object."
The judging panel also decided to award an Honourable Mention to Bruno Zhu for his unique artistic language, which incorporates fields of visuality such as design and fashion, making use of and depersonalising personal items.
Biography
ADRIANA PROGANÓ ((1992, Luzern, Switzerland) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. She has a graduate and post-graduate degree in Plastic Arts from ESAD.CR, and between 2015 and 2016 she studied Painting at the Accademia di Belle arti di Venezia, in Italy. She attended an artists’ residency in 2020 at Thirdbase, in Lisbon. She has held regular exhibitions since 2017, with the following solo exhibitions worth a special mention: Garden, Lehmann + Silva Gallery, Porto, 2018; BAD BEHAVIUOUOR, Boavista Gallery, Lisbon, 2019; Oouups, Zé dos Bois Gallery, Lisbon, 2019; We are all ducks wanting to be horses, Casa da Cerca – Contemporary Art Centre, Almada, 2020; Fall-Winter Collection, Bertrand Bookshop, EGEAC, 2021. Among the collective exhibitions, the following stand out: Cerveira International Art Biennale, 2017; Sonic Youth, Municipal Art Gallery, Almada, 2019; Homework, Madragoa Gallery, Lisbon, 2020.
