Mafalda Santos
Mafalda Santos (1980) has a Fine Arts degree in Painting at the
University of Oporto.
Together with André Sousa and Miguel Carneiro, she was codirector of the artist –run space PêSSEGOpráSEMANA, in Oporto,
between 2002 and 2007.
She has been showing her work on a regular basis since 2001 and
is represented by Galeria Presença since 2006.
In 2007/2008, Mafalda Santos was an artist in residence at
Location One, in New York, with the support of a scholarship from
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Foundation
for Development (FLAD).
Her work was selected for the EDP Prize "New Artists" in 2007.
She is a co-founder and director, together with the artist Susana
Gaudêncio, of the art project Pessoa Colectiva, since 2010.
In January 2014, Mafalda Santos founded the artist residency
program Moinho da Fonte Santa, together with the musician and
actor Manuel Mesquita, in the region of Alandroal, Portugal.
Her work is included in many portuguese collections, namely the
ones of António Cachola, EDP Foundation, Ilídio Pinho Foundation,
RAR Holding and the PLMJ Foundation.
Througout the last decade, she participated regularly in
different colective shows, to name a few: O Fim da Violência,
curated bt João Fonte Santa at Museu Bernardo in Caldas da
Rainha, O Princípio da Inércia, a project by Pessoa Colectiva at
the Pavilhão Branco of the City Museum in Lisbon, Transporto
Sempre uma Viagem at Galeria Quadrum in Lisbon; A Culpa Não é
Minha, Selected works of António Cachola’s collection, curated by
Eric Corne at Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon; O Dia Pela Noite,
curated by Susana Pomba at Lux Frágil in Lisbon; A Escolha da
Crítica, curated by Lígia Afonso at Plataforma Revolver in
Lisbon; Hospitalidade, curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez at
Hospital de São João in Porto; Only Connect, curated by Cecilia
Alemani (Art in General) at the Bloomberg Office Building in New
York; Café Portugal, curated by Filipa Oliveira in Évora,
Bratislava and Ponte Delgada; Portugal Agora-A Propos des Lieux
d’Origine at MUDAM Centre d’Art Moderne Gran-Duc Jean in
Luxemburg; EDP Novos Artistas in Porto (2007); DepósitoApontamentos sobre Densidade e Conhecimento at Reitoria da
Universidade do Porto; 7/10–7 artistas ao 10º mês at Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation and Toxic-o Discurso do Excesso at Fundição
de Oeiras.
A selection of her individual exhibitions includes: On
Revolution, at Galeria Presença in Oporto (2012); The Kappa
Effect, at Caroline Pagès Gallery in Lisbon (2011); The Great
Unconformity, at Sala do Veado, Natural History Museum in Lisbon
(2010); One day every wall will fall, at Galeria Presença in
Oporto (2009); Tamatave, at Galeria Presença in Lisbon (2006) and
Too Loud a Solitude, at Mad Woman in the Attic in Oporto (2006),
La matière des mots (2014), sobering Paris.