BIO

  She is married to Arlindo Silva, also a visual artist. She has two daughters, Verónica and Valentina, both born in Porto. She holds a PhD with an International Degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Vigo thanks to an individual research grant financed by FCT. She travelled to Helsinki to attend seminars on the Doctoral Program (Doctor in Fine Arts - DFA) at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki. She collaborated with Arlindo Silva on an art project between 2003-2008. She worked at Galeria Presença as a production assistant. She graduated in Fine Arts-Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2001, and in the same year she earned the Erasmus scholarship held at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. Since 1999 she has been participating in collective exhibitions mainly in independent spaces runned by artists in the city of Porto.