BEATRIZ ALBUQUERQUE
Lives and works between Porto and New York and is known for her interdisciplinary practices between performance and cross
media.
Was selected by Flash Art magazine as one of the 100 most relevant international artists under the age of 45. Awards include the
Breakthrough Award for the 17th Biennial Cerveira; Myers Art Prize Award from Columbia University, New York; and the Premio
Ambient Performance Series, PAC / edge Performance Festival, Chicago.
Albuquerque exhibits internationally, with solo and group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; Chicago
Cultural Center; Chelsea Art Museum, New York; Emily Harvey Foundation, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; 10th
International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece; MUBE Brazilian Museum of
Sculpture, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Ghana National Museum; Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Bogota, Columbia; Museo de Arte
Contemporanea de Caracas, Venezuela; TRAMA Festival in Porto, Portugal; among others.
She is the author of ART + INTERNET + PERFORMANCE = beginning of the 90s and Video Games + Glitch = Learning: Video
Games Vs. Teachers.
EDUCATION
PHD Art Education, Columbia University, New York, with a Fulbright and Foundation for Science and Technology scholarship
MFA Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA Arts and Fine Arts, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2015
2014
2012
2011
2010
Happy Birthday Mr. President, Rooster Gallery - The Bathroom Project Space, New York
XVIII Cerveira Biennial, Forum Cultural, Cerveira, Portugal
Tea Party, Encontrarte, Amares Biennial, Amares, Portugal
Heterónimos, Poets House, organized by Arte Institute, New York
Worlds within Objects (Myers Prize winners), Macy Gallery, New York
2013 Crisis in Luck: The Tea Party, Cross Media Residency, Macy Gallery, New York
17ª Bienal de Cerveira: Arte: Crise e Transformação, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Um Poeta em Nova York, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Oporto, Portugal
A Poet in Nova Iorque, Rogue Space Gallery, organized by Arte Institute, New York
Mondrian, Cross Media Residency, Macy Gallery, New York
Sound Sculpture: A Poet in Nova Iorque, The Mews Project, London, UK
GiSCA PALOOZA 2011, Milbank Chapel, New York
Site 110, New York
Blago Bung, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Triangle Arts Trust International Residence, Home and Abroad, Sintra, Portugal
Documentação: Projecto Trabalho de Graca, Galeria Reflexus, Oporto, Portugal
Project: Work For Free, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Performance Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Conflux Festival, New York
Color, Galeria 2, Chicago
Projecto: Trabalho de Graça, Galeria 3+1 ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA, Lisbon, Portugal
Collaboration II, Links Hall, Chicago
Color, Musicircus, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Project: Work For Free, The Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday, InCUBATE
Residency, Chicago
Project: Work For Free, KLab9: Art – Technology, Authorship and Ways of Living, Institute for Advanced Studies,
Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
ConcreteSpace, G2 - Galery 2, Chicago
Score, Chicago Art Department Gallery, Chicago
I / II / III / IV, Performance & Intermedia Festival: video Art PI five Place of art OFFicyna /National Museum / Centrala club,
Szczecin / Szczecin / Swinoujscie, Poland
Project: Work For Free, [edge]PerformanceInsideOut / Chicago Park Yourself, Citywide Parking Space Project, Chicago
Space, Musicircus, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Chicago
Livre, Links Hall, Chicago
$, Vivisection III, Base Space, Chicago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2015
2014
2013
2012
Oblique Rain, Spatium Gallery, Lincoln
PPL Space, Brooklyn
Insomnia Sessions, Maus Habitos, Oporto, Portugal
Road Work, The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State, New York
ArtCenter/South Florida (ArtCenter), Miami
A Radicalizacao do Mundo,Espaco Mira/Encontros da Imagem,Braga/Oporto, Portugal
VIII Festival Internacional de Performance Choroni, Acciones Gastronómicas PoliSensoriales, Choroni, Venezuela
Dialogue, Augsburg University Gallery, Augsburg, Germany
Performatus, Central Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Art Stabs Power, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal
Art Stabs Power, Plataforma Revolver, Bermondsey Project, London, UK
Region 0, The Latino Video ArtFestival of NY, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York
Region 0, MARCO: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Land-Art Insomnia, Ignis mountain, Satra mountain, Maramures, Romania
Trans-paris Express Festival, Space 59, Paris, France
JIAAP, Gallery Weber-Lutgen, The Centro Vecinal El Pumarejo, Seville, Spain
Cinco Séculos do Desenho, Museu Soares dos Reis, Oporto, Portugal
Quase Galeria, Oporto, Portugal
[IN BETWEEN] radio pieces II, Biennial International Radio Art Festival - Radia Lx 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
Ciclo Vídeo | LAB CUR | Guimãrães e no âmbito do Laboratório de Curadoria - 2012 Capital Europeia da Cultura,
Guimarães, Portugal
2011
2010
2009
FABBRICAIMMAGINE, Rome, Italy
Cinquecentesco Palazzo Caccia-Canali, Sant'Oreste, Roma, Italy
Video Performance Color, Dimanche Rouge program, Souvenirs From The Earth: cable channel
Sound Sculpture: A Poet in Nova Iorque, Mobile Radio da Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sound Sculpture: A Poet in Nova Iorque, Radio Zero, Lisbon, Portugal
Passante no Mundo - Paulo Reis e Cª, Quase Galeria, Oporto, Portugal
MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART Berlin, KuLe Theater, Berlin, Germany
MULTIPLICAction, The Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London, UK
Afrontamentos 6, Palácio da Brejoeira, Monção, Portugal
Performance Roulette, The Central Canadian Center for Performance, Winnipeg, Canada
An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Cabinet Magazine, MASS MoCA, Brooklyn, North Adams
boudoi[a]r[ts],[International] Home Theatre Festival, Brisbane, Australia
TPS Reports: Performance Documents, SpaceCamp MicroGallery, Indianapolis
Fluxhibition #4 – amusements, diversions, games, tricks and puzzles, FluxMuseum: A Wing of the Ontological Museum,
Forth Worth
Festival Trama, Serralves Museum, Oporto, Portugal
Opções & Futuros: Obras da Colecção da Fundação PLMJ - Aquisições Recentes Exposição Colectiva, Espaco PLMJ,
Lisbon, Portugal
Studio Practices, Macy Gallery, New York
Fluxhibition #4 – amusements, diversions, games, tricks and puzzles, FluxMuseum: A Wing of the Ontological Museum,
Forth Worth - USA.2do Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido, Bogota, Colombia
PER-FORMATE ´X ACCIÓ, POST-INDUSTRIA - PERDUA D´IDENTITAT, Tarragonès, Spain
XI Edition: Barcelona Art Contemporary Festival, Centre d’art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Y’ aura ce qu’il y aura, Lapsus, Albi, France
Wallpaper, 3+1 Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Labyrint 09 - Writings and Observations, Labyrint Press, Botkyrka konsthall, Tumba - Suecia. IV Festival Internacional
Performance de Performance Choroni, Choroni, Venezuela
Crosstalk Video Art festival, Budapest, Hungary
Afrontamentos 4, Galeria Jorge Shirley, Lisbon, Portugal
Estetica Solidaria, Palacio Marques do Pombal, Lisbon, Portugal
Biennal d'Eivissa, Sala Capitular del Museu D'Art Contemporani d'Eivissa, Eivissa, Spain
Afrontamentos 5, Quase Galeria, Porto, Portugal
Está a morrer e não quer ver, Espaço Campanhã, Oporto, Portugal
Os cavalos também se abatem, A Sala, Oporto, Portugal
Roteiro de Creacion, Espazo de Intervencion Santa Isabel, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
En route, Jay Gallery, Seoul, Korea
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