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Claire de Santa Coloma

Photo: Paulo Alexandrino

33 years old, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1983; lives and works in Lisbon.

She studied direct stone carving at the Ateliers Beaux Arts de la ville de Paris. At the same time, she concluded a research Master’s Degree in Visual Arts at the Sorbonne, in Paris. Between 2007 and 2009 she was a resident artist at Casa de Velázquez, in Madrid. Between 2009 and 2010 she attended the independent studies programme MAUMAUS, in Lisbon, which she took to the 29th São Paulo Biennale. In 2010, she took part in the residency La Belle Alliance (Metropole), at Lisbon’s Goethe Institute. In 2017 she was invited to take part in the programme of Lisbon as the Ibero-American Capital of Culture, through a residency at the Coruchéus studios and a project to be presented at the Quadrum gallery.

She exhibits regularly since 2008. Among her solo exhibitions, we highlight: Guía Prático para Fazer uma Escultura Básica de Madeira, at Galeria 3+1 of Contemporary Art (Lisbon, 2014); A ordem complexa, at Galeria Progetti (Rio de Janeiro, 2012); A escassez nos salvará da catástrofe, at Galeria 3+1 of Contemporary Art (Lisbon, 2011) and A Experiência da Medida, at Carpe Diem Art & Research (Lisbon, 2010). Her collective exhibitions include: Excusa Argumental, at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gaz Natural Fenosa (A Coruña); Buenos Aires Art Biennale (Buenos Aires, 2013); Geografía Portátil, at MUMU (Córdoba, Argentina, 2013).