Born
| 1969 Lisbon, Portugal
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Education
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| 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 | S.A.C.I., Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy |
| Summer Abroad Program |
| Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, Liberal Arts Studies |
Group Exhibitions
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| 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 |
Awards
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| 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
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| 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 |