Ana Jotta is a Portuguese artist born in 1946[2] in Lisbon.
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Born | 1946 (1946) Lisbon, Portugal |
Nationality | Portuguese |
Education | Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (ESBAL), Lisbon; La Cambre, Brussels |
Known for | Visual art, installation |
Awards | Grande Prémio EDP/Arte 2013[1] |
Ana Jotta studied art at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon) and at La Cambre in Brussels.[3] From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema and theatre. She became more focused on visual arts since the 1980s.[4]
Jotta explores all artistic fields: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, photography. She also works with craft techniques like sewing, embroidery and pottery.[5] Her projects are extremely varied, she invents new and unexpected forms for each of her exhibitions. Her work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums[6] such as the Drawing Center (New York, 1994), Sagacho Exhibit Space (Tokyo, 1997), Galicia Contemporary Art Centre [es] (Santiago de Compostela, 2004),[7] Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, 2016),[8] Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, 2019),[9] Culturgest [pt] (Porto, 2016),[10] the Crédac [fr] (Ivry, 2016),[11] the Berardo Museum (Lisbon, 2020),[12] Keijiban (Kanazawa, 2021).[13] In 2018, she co-curated with Ricardo Valentim "from A to C",[14] an exhibition of works by Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes at Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
Jotta has had two major career retrospectives: "Rua Ana Jotta"[15] at Museu Serralves (Porto, 2005)[16] and "A Conclusão da Precedente" at Culturgest (Lisboa, 2014).[17]
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