Mónica de Miranda

Mónica de Miranda is a Portuguese artist, living and working in Lisbon, Portugal. Born in Porto, Portugal in 1976.
Mónica de Miranda is a Portuguese artist of Angolan origin who lives and works between Lisbon and Luanda. Filmmaker, Artist and researcher, her work is based on themes of urban archaeology and affective geographies. She works in an interdisciplinary way with drawing, installation, photography, film, video and sound, in its expanded forms and in the boundaries between fiction and documentary. She is graduated in Visual Arts and Sculpture from Camberwell College of Arts (London) and PhD in Artistic Studies from Middlesex University (London). In 2019, she was nominated for the New artist prize at MAAT and in 2016 for the Novo Photo Banco Prize, exhibiting as one of the finalists at the Berardo Collection Museum. Her solo exhibitions include: Geografia Dormente (Galeria Municipal de Arte, Almada, Portugal, 2019); Tomorrow is another day(Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon, 2018); Panorama (Banco Economico, Luanda, 2018); Atlantic. A Journey to the center of the earth (Galería Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain, 2017); Panorama (Tyburn Gallery. London, UK, 2017); Arrivals and departures (Palácio D. Manuel, Évora, 2016); Hotel Globo (Museu Nacional de arte contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, 2015); Arquipélago (Galeria Carlos Carvalho , Lisbon, 2014); Erosion (Appleton Square, Lisbon, 2013); An Ocean Between Us(Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, 2012); Novas Geografias (198 Gallery, London / Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon / Imagem HF, Amsterdam, 2008).
Among her collective exhibitions : African Cosmologies- Foto fest (Houston, USA,2020), South circular, Maat (Lisbon, 2019); Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary Landscapes at Bienar du Sur, MAAC ( +Guayaquil, Ecuador,2020 ); Taxidermy of the future, Biennale Lubumbashi (Congo, 2019); Architecture and Manufacturing, at MAAT in Lisbon (2019); Panorama, Banco Económico (Luanda, 2019); Doublethink: Doublevision, Pera Museum (Istanbul, 2017); Daqui Pra Frente, Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, 2017-2018); Vila Franca de Xira Biennial Photography (2017); Dakar Biennial in Senegal (2016); Bienal de Casablanca (2016); Addis Foto Fest (2016); Encontros Fotográficos de Bamako (2015); MNAC (2015); 14ª Bienal de Arquitectura de Veneza (2014); Bienal São Tomé e Principe (2013); Estado Do Mundo, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2008).
She is one of the founders of the Hangar project (Artist Residency Centre, Lisbon, 2014).
Her work is represented in several public and private collections, including: Calouste Gulbenkian, MNAC, MAAT, FAS, Centro Cultural de Lagos, Photographic Archive of Lisbon.
Education
2014
PhD in Visual Art. University of Middlesex. London, UK.
2000
Master’s Degree in Art and Education. Institute of Education. London, UK.
1998
Visual Art Degree. Camberwell College of Arts. London, UK.
Solo shows
2024
Greenhouse. Portugal Pavilion. 60th Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy.
2024
The Sun Does Not Rise in the North. First Malta Biennale. Valletta, Malta.
2023
The Sun Does Not Rise in the North. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2022
Path to the Stars. Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden, Germany.
2022
Construir o tempo. Camões - Centro Cultural Português. Curated by Suzana Sousa. Luanda, Angola.
2022
Mirages and Deep Time. Galerias Municipais. Curated by Azu Nwagbogu. Lisbon, Portugal.
2022
The Island. Autograph. London, UK.
2022
No longer with memory but with its future. No longer with memory but with its future. Fundazione Nueva Icona. Oratorio San Ludovico. Curated by Paula Nascimento. Venice, Italy.
2022
Shadows Fall Behind. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2020
All That Burns Melts Into Air. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2020
Contos de Lisboa.Arquivo Municial de Lisboa/Fotográfico. Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by Bruno Leitao and Sofia Castro.
2019
Geografia Durmente. Galeria Municipal de Arte. Almada, Portugal.
2018
Tomorrow is another day. Curated by Cristina Tejo. Carlos Carvalho. Lisbon, Portugal.
2018
Panorama. Banco Economico. Luanda, Angola.
2018
Transfer. Académie des beaux-arts de Kinshasa. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa.
2017
Between Departure And Arrival. Palacio de D. Manuel. Évora, Portugal.
2017
Fora de cena. Sao Luis Teatro Municipal. Lisbon, Portugal.
2017
Atlantic. A Journey to the center of the earth.Galería Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2017
Panorama. Tyburn Gallery. London, UK.
2016
Hotel Globo#2.Espaço Espelho d'Água. Lisbon, Portugal.
2016
Arrivals and departures. Palácio D. Manuel. Évora, Portugal.
2015
Hotel Globo. Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado. Lisbon, Portugal.
2014
Arquipélago. Galeria Carlos Carvalho. Lisbon, Portugal.
2013
Erosion. Appleton Square. Lisbon, Portugal.
2012
An Ocean Between Us. Plataforma Revólver. Lisbon, Portugal.
2008
Novas Geografias. 198 Gallery. London, UK.
2008
Novas Geografias. Plataforma Revólver. Lisbon, Portugal.
2008
Novas Geografias. Imagem HF. Amsterdam, The Neatherlands.

Group shows(selected)
2024
RE/SISTERS. FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium.
2024
REVERBERATIONS. Mattatoio, Pelanda, Rome, Italy.
2024
Way of the forest. COLOMBOSCOPE. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2024
As If the World had no West. Torino Foto Festival. Torino, Italy
2024
Path to the Stars. Wexner Center of Arts. Ohio, USA
2024
Soulscapes. Dulwich Picture Gallery. London, UK.
2024
A Thousand Tales. Lagos Biennial. Lagos, Nigeria.
2023
RE/SISTERS. Barbican Center. London, UK.
2022
1st Biennial of African Photography, Ozangé. La Térmica. Malaga, Spain.
2022
12th Berlin Biennale. KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Berlin, Germany. Curated by Kader Attia.
2022
Europa Oxalá. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Curated by António Pinto Ribeiro, Katia Kameli and Aimé Mpane. Lisbon, Portugal.
2022
Beyond Homogeneity. Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art. Curated by Alejandro Perdomo Daniels. Syke, Germany.
2021
O Silêncio da Terra. Galeria do Paço. Braga, Portugal.
2021
Long Story Short. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2021
Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South. Allied- Kyiv Biennial . The House of Cinema, Conference Hall. Curated by Eszter Szakács and Zoltán Ginelli.
2021
Otro orden. Derribando fronteras. Curated by Diana Wechsler. Fundación Francis Naranjo, Canary Islands, Spain.
2021
Contra la Raza. Photo España . Matadero Madrid, Spain.
2021
BUM BUM BA YE [Under Pressure]. Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain.
2021
The Folds. Hangar. Lisboa, Portugal.
2021
Diafragma. Covilha International Photo Festival. Covilha, Portugal.
2021
O Silêncio da Terra. Nogueira da Silva Museum . Braga, Portugal.
2021
O Silêncio da Terra. Paço Gallery. The University of Minho, Portugal.
2021
Transperiphery Movement. OFF Biennale. Budapest, Hungary.
2021
Entretecido/Interlace.Pavilhao Branco, Lisbon, Portugal.
2021
Um Território em Seis Ecologias. Museu de Almada, Almada, Portugal.
2020
Ver Versus Ver II.Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain.
2020
Dissonances. MNAC Collection: Acquisitions and Donations 2010-.Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado (MNAC). Lisbon, Portugal.
2020
ProjectMAP 2010-. Map or Exhibition. Museu Coleçao Berardo. Lisbon, Portugal.
2020
Ground Control. Bildmuseet. Umeå, Suecia. Curated by Clelia Coussonnet.
2020
Earthkeeping/Earthshaking- Art, Feminisms and Ecology. Galeria Quadrum. Lisbon, Portugal.
2020
Ver Versus Ver. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2020
African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other.Fotofest Biennial. Houston, USA.
2019
Taxidermy of the future.Museu de História Natural de Luanda (SIEXPO). Curated by Bruno Leitao and Paula Nascimento. Largo do Kinaxixe, Luanda.
2019
Bienal Sur. Curated by Fernando Farina and Marina Aguerre. Guayaquil, Equador.
2019
Biennale de Lubumbashi. Part of the exhibition Taxidermy of the future with Kiluanje Kia Henda and Grada Kilomba. Curated by Paula Nascimento and Bruno Leitao. Lubumbashi, Congo.
2019
South Circular. MAAT. EDP Foundation New Artist Award. Lisbon, Portugal.
2019
Walk&Talk festival. Curated by Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues. Circuito das Artes. Açores, Portugal.
2019
Bitting Nations. Cine-concerto Video Lucem. Algarve, Portugal.
2019
Studiolo XXI. Deseho e afinidades. Curated by Fátima Lambert. Eugénio de Almeida Foundation. Évora, Portugal.
2019
Fiction and Fabrication. Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn. Curated by Pedro Gadanho and Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues. MAAT. Lisbon, Portugal.
2017
Being Her(e). Galeria Banco Economico. Luanda, Angola. (Curated by Paula Nascimento and Violet Nantume).
2017
UNTITLED. Tyburn Gallery. London, UK.
2017
Doublethink : Doublevision. Pera Museum. Istanbul, Turkey.
2017
Prelude to a Landscape.Galeria Carvalho. Lisbon, Portugal.
2017
Daqui Pra Frente.Curated by Michelle Sales. CAIXA Cultural. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2017
Le jour qui vient. Galerie des Galeries. Paris, France.
2017
A Represntaçao da Figura Humana em Angola. Galeía This in Not a White Cube (TINAWC). Luanda, Angola.
2017
The other when we are not looking. FCT/UNL. Almada, Portugal.
2017
Bienal de Fotografia Vila Franca de Xira. Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal.
2016
Addis Foto Fest.Lisbon, Portugal.
2016
The other when we are not looking.Lisbon, Portugal.
2016
Technologies of Violence.Centro de Art Santa Mónica. Barcelona, Spain.
2016
Biennale Internationale de l’Art Contemporain de Casablanca. Casabalanca, Morocco.
2016
Bienal de Fotografia Vila Fraca de Xira.Villa Franca de Xira, Portugal.
2016
Contemporary African Art and Aesthetics of Translations. Dak'Art Biennale de l’art Africain Contemporain. Dakar, Senegal.
2015
Uma Delicada Zona de Compromisso. Quadrum Galeria de Arte. Lisbon, Portugal.
2015
Telling Time.Rencontres de Bamako - Biennale africaine de la Photographie. Musée National du Mali. Bamako, Mali.
2014
Ilha de São Jorge. 14th Biennial of Architecture of Venezia. Venezia, Italy.
2014
Coleção Carpe Diem Limited Editions. Galeria Fonseca Macedo. São Miguel, Açores, Portugal.
2014
A visão incorporada-Performance para a câmara. Museu do Chiado (MNAC). Lisbon, Portugal.
2013
Line Trap. Bienal de São Tomé e Principe. São Tomé e Principe.
2013
Além Margem(s).Plataforma Revólver. Lisbon, Portugal.
2012
L’Art est un sport de combat. Musée des Beaux Arts de Calais. Calais, France.
2012
Do silêncio ao outro Hino. Centro Cultural Português. Mindelo, Praia, Cape Verde.
2012
12º Programa de Exposições. Once upon a time. Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa. Lisbon, Portugal.
2011
L’art est un sport de combat. Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle. Calais, France.
2011
Os Livros Dos Outros. Centro de Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor. Ponte de Sor, Portugal.
2010
Tirésias - Video de Artistas Made in Portugal.Centro Cultural de España. Montevideo, Uruguay.
2010
She Devil 4. Studio Stefania Miscetti. Rome, Italy.
2010
This location. Mojo Gallery. Dubai, UAE.
2008
Mundos Locais. Centro Cultural de Lagos. Lagos, Portugal.
2008
Do you hear me. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisbon, Portugal.
2008
United Nations. Singapore Fringe Festival. Singapore.
2006
Independents Biennial. Liverpool, UK.

Art Fairs
2024
ARCOlisboa. Sabrina Amrani, Lisbon, Portugal.
2024
ARCOmadrid. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2023
ARCOlisboa. Sabrina Amrani. Lisbon, Portugal.
2023
ARCOmadrid. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2022
Art X Lagos. Sabrina Amrani. Lagos, Nigeria.
2022
ARCOlisboa. Sabrina Amrani. Lisbon, Portugal.
2022
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Sabrina Amrani. Paris, France.
2022
ARCOmadrid. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2021
ARCOmadrid. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2020
ARCOmadrid. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain
2019
viennacontemporary. Sabrina Amrani. Vienna, Austria.
2019
ARCOlisboa. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Lisbon, Portugal.
2019
Photo London. Carlos de Carvalho Arte Contemporânea. London, UK.
2019
Photo London. Tyburn Gallery. London, UK.
2019
Drawing Room. Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea. Madrid, Spain.
2019
ARCOmadrid. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2018
Artissima. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Turin, Italy.
2018
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London. Tyburn Gallery. London, UK.
2018
Paris Photo. Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea. Paris, France.
2018
ARCOmadrid. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2017
AKAA, Also Known As Africa. Tyburn Gallery. Paris, France.
2017
Artissima. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Turin, Italy.
2017
ArtBo. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
2017
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London. Tyburn Gallery. London, UK.
2016
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. London, UK.

Residencies
2018
Maputo Artist residency. Centro Cultural Portugês em Maputo. Maputo, Moçambique.
2018
Artist residency| Festival Walk and Talk. Sao Miguel, Açores Azores.
2018
Pequim Artist residency. Red gate gallery | Hangar. Pequim, Beijing, China.
2014
Archipelago. French Institute. Port Louis, Mauritius.
2009
Verbal Eyes. Tate Britain. London, UK.
2008
Muyehlekete. Museu Nacional de Arte. Maputo, Mozambique.
2008
Living Together. British Council/Iniva. Tiblisi/London. Georgia/UK.

Awards
2023
Premio Idealista. Spain.
2019
Finalist. EDP Foundation, New Artists Award. Portugal
2016
Finalist. Novo Banco Photo Prize. Portugal
2016
Nominated. Prix Pictet Photo Award. France

Public collections
Colección Alma Colectiva. Guadalajara, Mexico.
Nesr Foundation. Luanda, Angola.
PLMJ. Lisboa, Portugal.
Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT). Portugal.
Fundaçao Calouste Gulbekian. Portugal
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado (MNAC). Portugal
Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa. Portugal
Centro Cultural de Lagos. Portugal

Publications
2022
Beyond Homogeneity. Syker Vorwerk - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst. Ed. Redaktion. ISBN 978-3-9824398-0-8
2020
Mónica de Miranda. Tales of Lisbon. Lisbon Municipal Photographic Archive. Lisbon, Portugal.
2019
Prémio Novos Artistas Fundaçao EDP. MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal.
2019
Fiction and Fabrication. Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn. Hirmer (ed.). ISBN 978-3777432892
2019
Atlantica: Contemporary art from Angola and its diaspora. Hangas Books. Lisbon, Portugal. ISBN 978-3-95679-415-5
2019
Theatrum Botanicum. Orlow, U. 264 pages. ISBN: 978-9-89208-810-5.
2017
Geography of Affections. Mónica de Miranda. ISBN: 978-989-99810-0-3
2016
Novo Banco Photo: Félix Mula, Mónica de Miranda, Pauliana Valente PimentelMuseu Coleçao Berardo. Lisbon, Portugal.
2015
Mónica de Miranda: Hotel Globo. Tavares, E.; Miranda, M. Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado: Lisbon, Portugal. ISBN 978-972-776-446-2
2015
Telling Time, Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie 10 éme edition, Antawan I. Byrd, Silva, B. Chatap, Y. Kehrer, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-86828-669-4
2014
Ilha de São Jorge - Objects, buildings, Cities, Landscapes and Visions. Vaz Milheiro, A., Serventi S., Nascimento P. Beyong Entropy, London. ISBN:978-989-20-1589-9
2010
Pensão Ibérica. Roush, P.
2009
Underconstruction. Miranda, M., Goodwin, P. Direcção Geral das Artes, Lisbon. ISBN:978-989-20-1514-9
2008
Cartography: Artists + Maps. Harmon, K. Princeton Architectural Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-56898-762-0
2008
New Geographies. Design by Gavin Harry.