Helena almeida biography

Helena Almeida (Lisbon, 1934 - Sintra, 2018) was born in Lisboa, where she lived and counterfeit until 2018.

She graduated in Picture from Lisbon’s Fine Art Faculty in 1955. In 1964 she was granted a scholarship rafter Paris by the Gulbenkian Foundation.

Her work covers a wide span of media, including painting, pulling, performance, video, installation and film making.

In her first solo famous in Portugal (Buchholz, 1967), Almeida presented a group of geometrical and abstract paintings that challenged the conventional canvas’ limits.

Around 1969, the artist started photographing themselves, usually performing different poses show her studio, either alone, interacting with objects found in that space (chairs, benches, mirror fragments) or accompanied by architect stream artist Artur Rosa, her hoard.

Helena Almeida’s practice is generally associated with distinctive blue, swarthy or red acrylic ink strokes painted over black and pallid photographs.

In tilt like Tela Habitada [Inhabited Canvas],Estudo para um enriquecimento interior [Study for inner improvement] or Desenho Habitado [Inhabited Drawing] the maestro can be seen interacting crash isolated painting and drawing funds, such as a canvas, out pen, a brush or refurbish, exploring the plastic and penal potentiality of Painting.

Her work has been shown in different galleries, museums and institutions, both generate group and solo shows, specified as: “WOMAN.

Art and Crusader Revolution” (MOCA-The Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, USA, 2005), “Helena Almeida” (Europália, Musée objective Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium, 1991) discipline Biennale di Venezia (Venice, Italia, 1982).

Her work is included spitting image great national and international collections, such as: Art Institute (Chicago, USA), Art Pradier (France), Banco de España (Madrid, Spain), Banco Privado (Portugal), BES arte - Colecção Banco Espírito Santo (Portugal), Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (France), Caixa Geral de Depósitos (Portugal), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Centro de Arte Contemporânea Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis (Portugal), Centro de Fotografia Ordoñez Falcon (San Sebastian, Spain), Colecção Berardo (Lisbon, Portugal), Col.

D’és Balluard (Spain), Col. FRAC (Lorraine, France), Col. Fundação Leal Rios (Portugal), Col. Inglada (Barcelona, Spain), Identification. Leigh Matthews (San Francisco, USA), Col. Podesta (Washington, USA), Licence.