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Ana Carvalho is a portuguese visual artist and designer based in Lisbon.
Over the last two decades she has been focused on digital design and strategy, exploring sensorial interfaces.

Longing to explore new forms of visual expression and abstract representation decides to return to paper and canvas mediums, drawing / painting after fifteen years of digital media. Recently, since the last three years, she is reconnecting with ceramics after significant contact around the age of twenty-five, mentored by the renowned Portuguese ceramicist, Helena Abrantes.

In 1999 she completed her degree in Graphic Design in Lisbon and shortly after received her Master Degree in Digital Interfaces from the Escola Superior de Disseny Elisava / Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), tutored by the intermedia artist, musician and composer José Manuel Berenguer, director of the Orchestra del Caos. At the age of 5, she started music studies, playing the violin followed by the viola that became her main instrument.

Having as main focus her participation on THE ARCTIC CIRCLE Expeditionary Residency in the Summer Edition 2016, she has developed the three part project ÁRTICO.

Ana has been presenting her work on several exhibitions. Later 2016, she participated with three other artists in the exhibition LIMES curated by Manuel Rodrigues, in Lisbon. In April 2017, joined the participants of the Arctic Circle 2016 in the exhibition BEYOND NATURE, in Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas curated by Adam Fung TCU Professor of Art.

Her artistic and creative practice is a result of a visual media persistent research expressed by a large scope of mediums and distinguished techniques from digital platforms to paper. Influenced by her background, the relation between sound and visual elements has a strong presence. Her organic abstract compositions engage the concepts of place and landscape on different levels of depths.

LABVERDE Art Residency an immersive experience through the Amazon, was her latest experience in August 2017.

In January 2019, Ana was part of AU DÈLA DU NORD, exhibition presented in Galerie D’Art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen and curated by the art photographer and director of the Visual Arts Department of the University of Moncton, Julie Forgues - New Brunswick, Canada.
In April 2019, Ana has participated in the exhibition A MAGNETIC NORTH, curated by the artist Kate Collyer in Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie - New York.

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Ana Carvalho é artista visual e designer. Vive e trabalha em Lisboa.

Nas últimas duas décadas tem-se focado nas áreas de design e estratégia digital, explorando interfaces sensoriais. Sentindo a necessidade de explorar novas formas de expressão visual e de mexer com a matéria, decidiu regressar ao papel através do desenho / pintando, após quinze anos dedicados aos meios digitais. Mais recentemente, nos últimos três anos, tem vindo a reencontrar prática da cerâmica após um contacto significativo por volta dos vinte e cinco anos de idade, sob a orientação da conceituada ceramista Helena Abrantes.

Finalizou o mestrado em Design de Interfaces Multimédia  em 2001, com DIAPHONIA, projecto de uma instalação interactiva, sob a tutoria do Director da Orquestra del Caos, artista intermedia, compositor e guitarrista, José Manuel Berenguer. De 2003 a 2006, colaborou com o Centro de Arte Digitais Atmosferas.

Estreou SIMBIOSES, filme experimental realizado em parceria com o compositor Pedro M. Rocha com o apoio do ICAM, em 2005, no Festival Música Viva, em Oeiras.

Desenvolveu o projecto LX 2.0, projecto de uma plataforma de arte digital com suporte online para a Galeria Lisboa 20 (Galeria Miguel Nabinho).

Tem vindo a participar em diversas exposições entre as quais a exposição colectiva “Obstáculos Para Um Novo Saber” (Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga) em 2015, exposição colectiva “Mulheres Pintoras e Mulheres Pintadas” (Palácio de Landal, Santarém) 2016,  a MOSTRA ‘16 (edições de Lisboa e Porto) e a MOSTRA ‘17 (Lisboa). No final de 2016, colaborou com três artistas na exposição LIMES com a curadoria de Manuel Rodrigues.

Participou na residência / expedição THE ARCTIC CIRCLE (Junho 2016, ao largo do Arquipélago de Svalbard - Oceano Ártico), na sequência da qual iniciou o projecto multidisciplinar ÁRTICO.

Foi convidada a colaborar na exposição BEYOND NATURE, em Fort Worth Contemporary Arts no Texas, com a curadoria de Adam Fung, professor de Arte na TCU, em Abril de 2017.

Em 2019, participou na exposição AU DÈLA DU NORD na Galerie D’Art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen em Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, com a curadoria de Julie Forgues. Colaborou na exposição A MAGNETIC NORTH com a curadoria da artista Kate Collyer, na Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie em Nova Iorque.