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Born in 1969 Lisbon, Portugal

Education

  • 2001-2003

    San Francisco Art Institute, MFA, Painting

  • 1992-1994

    School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Boston, MA
    BFA, Painting

  • 1989-1992

    Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, Liberal Arts Studies

Group Exhibitions

  • 2018

    Art to go: A Benefit For Make The Road NY, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn NY
    What’s MY Line?, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Kirk Stoller

  • 2017

    Text & Image, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn NY, Curated by Edith Newell

  • 2008

    Biophilia, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Curated by Ashley Kalemjian

  • 2007

    Systems and Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

  • 2006

    Close Calls, Headlands Center of the Arts, Sausalito, CA

  • 2005

    Abstraction is Dead (Long Live Abstraction), Belcher Studios, San Francisco, CA
    Curated by Trudy Montgomery
    Juried Annual 2004-2005 Exhibition, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
    Juror Rene de Guzman

  • 2004

    Line Up, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
    Traveling Scholars Group Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

  • 2003

    Group Show, CIS (Center for Integrated Systems) Stanford University, CA
    New California Masters, a juried show of selected graduating Californians MFA’s
    WORKS, San Jose, CA, Jurors Lizabeth Oliveria, Bryan Yedinak

Solo Exhibition

  • 1997

    Galeria Módulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal

Awards

  • 2005

    Juror’s Commendation Award- First Place, Juried Annual 2004-2005 Exhibition, Pro Arts Gallery.
    Juror Rene de Guzman.

  • 2003

    SFMOMA SECA Art Award Nomination

  • 2003

    Headlands Center for the Arts,MFA Residency Award

  • 2003

    Honorable Mention Painting Award, San Francisco Art Institute

  • 2003

    Traveling Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • 2002

    Schmidt Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute

  • 2001-2003

    Graduate Merit Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute

Bibliography

  • 2007

    Teixiera da Mota, Carolina, “Tension between Painting and the Environment,”
    Attitude, March Issue 2007

  • 2006

    Van Proyen, Mark, “ ‘Close Calls: 2006’ at the Headlands Center for the Arts, ”
    Artweek, April 2006, Volume 37, Issue 3

  • 2004

    Temin, Christine, “A brush with greatness at the Museum School awards show,”
    Theatre/Arts, Boston Globe, February 22nd

  • 2001

    Adriao, Susana, “Pintar e viver na America,”
    Retrato, Lux, June Issue 1997

  • 1997

    Porfirio, Jose Luis, “Maria Joao Vasconcelos, Modulo” Cartaz, Expresso, October 25th