FRANCISCA
CARVALHO

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Statement

Francisca Carvalho is a visual artist who currently lives in Lisboa. Her work is based on the handling of symbols (and signs) from different geographies, which she has experienced and digested, translating them into drawings, collages, texts, paintings and textiles. Carvalho trained in painting, drawing, printmaking and philosophy. She believes in deconstructed craftsmanship, learning curves, experimentation, skill and deskill as modes of shared freedom and self-provocation. Since 2018, she has been carrying out practical research in India into natural dyeing practices, kalamkari and hand block printing techniques. 

Website Design & Code

Surpresa Studio

Education

( 2016 )

Master of Fine Arts

Mount Royal School of Art Multidisciplinary Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore MD

( 2012 )

Degree in Aesthetics, Philosophy

F.C.S.H – U.N.L. Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon

( 2009 )

Degree in Philosophy

F.C.S.H – U.N.L. Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon

( 2003 )

Degree in Visual Arts (Painting and Drawing)

Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Lisbon

Solo Exhibitions

( 2025 )

PEPLUM

Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon

( 2024 )

three sisters

Sismógrafo, O'Porto

( 2023 )

Pantalons pour attirer le vent

Pavilhão Branco, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa

( 2022 )

selva

Collaboration with Cristina Lamas, Brotéria, Lisbon

( 2021 )

Às nonas, Midas nos dedos medram e mondam

Galeria Municipal de Almada

( 2021 )

cosmic tones

CIAJG - Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães

( 2021 )

Manoela Ritornella

Failed Entertainment, Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon

( 2020 )

piquenique

Verão, Rua da Bombarda 12, Lisbon

( 2020 )

Le ciel du spermatozoide

Espaço 531 – Galeria Fernando Santos, O’Porto

( 2019 )

acordar tarde

L+S Projects – Galeria Lehmann + Silva. O’Porto

( 2019 )

loom

ArtWorks, Póvoa do Varzim

( 2018 )

hasta

Handcrafts and Handlooms Museum, Nova Delhi

( 2018 )

nila

Kerala Museum, Kochi

( 2018 )

tiger moutain

A Maior – A Project by Bruno Zhu, Viseu

( 2016 )

chordata

Culturgest, O’Porto

( 2012 )

nove desenhos

Parkour, Lisbon

( 2010 )

portmanteau

Galeria Alecrim 50. Lisbon

Group Exhibitions

( 2024 )

passages

Encounter Gallery, Lisbon

( 2024 )

a multiplicação dos fingidos

Site specific, Land Art Cascais, Quinta do Pisão, Cascais

( 2023 )

pintura sem fim

Brotéria, Lisbon

( 2023 )

bau

Metaxu, Toulon

( 2023 )

dark safari

CACE. Centro Cultural de V. N. de Foz Côa

( 2022 )

plano de contigência

Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon

( 2022 )

exposição da zdb

CIAJG, Guimarães

( 2022 )

ninguém. só eu

Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira

( 2021 )

Isolation, Oscillation

Outono Projects, New York

( 2021 )

farsa

Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo

( 2021 )

triângulo

Brotéria, Lisbon

( 2021 )

Les amis du cadavre exquis

DuplexAIR, Lisbon

( 2021 )

Colecção Figueiredo Ribeiro

Palácio de São Bento, Lisbon

( 2020 )

canto

Appleton Box, Lisbon

( 2020 )

Quattuor

STET, Lisbon

( 2020 )

A Play of Boundaries

Galeria Carlos Carvalho. Lisbon

( 2019 )

Orto di Incendio

Instituto Centrale per la Gráfica, Rome

( 2019 )

Hentai Flipper Tsunami

Collaboration with André Almeida e Sousa. Sá da Costa, Lisbon

( 2019 )

a wake

Outono Projects, Lisbon

( 2018 )

Art on Paper – Navigator Prize – Expresso

Chiado 8, Lisbon

( 2017 )

gabinete de moda

Gabinete, Lisbon

Scholarships

( 2021 - 2024 )

PHD scholarship

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)

( 2017 - 2018 )

Short Term Grant

Fundação Oriente

( 2018 )

Artistic Research Grant

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Art On Paper Navigator Prize - Finalist

( 2014 - 2016 )

Fulbright Scholarship

Fundação Carmona e Costa

( 2014 - 2016 )

Merit Scholarship

Mount Royal School of Art – Maryland Institute College of Art

Residencies

( 2023 )

Osso Colectivo

Macro Residency with Rita Thomaz and Sara Mealha, São Gregório

( 2022 )

AIR

Organized by CADA e ZDB, Zambujeira do Mar

( 2022 )

wireless

Cortéx Frontal, Arraiolos

( 2018 )

artworks

Póvoa do Varzim

( 2018 )

mog

Goa

( 2018 )

Jai Texart

Internship, Bagru and Jaipur

( 2018, 2019, 2023 )

Workshop with the Mata ni Pachedi family

Ahmedabad

( 2019, 2023 )

Workshop at Rangotr

Sanganer

( 2006 )

Visual Arts Program

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

Collections

Caixa Geral de Depósitos

Portugal

Colecção do Estado Português de Arte Contemporânea - CACE

Portugal

Fundação Carmona e Costa

Portugal

National Salt Satyagraha Memorial Project

India

Figueiredo Ribeiro

Portugal

Private collections

Portugal, Holland, Belgium and U.S.A.

Artist Talks & Teaching

( 2025 )

color as matter

Artist talk , “Great Arists on Campus”, Universidade Lusófona

( 2024 )

Three sisters

Artist talk at Sismógrafo, O’Porto

( 2024 )

ON PAINTING: Plásticas Biofílicas

Presentation at FBAUP, Lisbon

( 2024 )

Presentation and workshop on natural dyeing practices

At Ano Zero, Coimbra Biennale

( 2022 )

Visiting Artist

Artist talk at Mount Royal School of Art, MICA, Baltimore, MD

( 2021 )

natural dyeing processes of Rajasthan and Gujarat

Artist talk as visiting artist at College of Kerala

( 2021 )

Visiting artist

Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD

( 2018 - 2021 )

drawing and painting

Teaching experience at Ar.Co, Lisbon

( 2020 )

natural dyeing processes of Rajasthan and Gujarat

Artist talk as visiting artist at University of Évora

( 2019 - 2020 )

Theories on contemporary art

Teaching experience at MArt, Lisbon

( 2018 )

Íris and Hasta – An introduction to the Natural Dyeing Practices in Rajasthan and Gujarat

MOG - Museum of Goa

( 2018 )

Drawing and Pedagogy

Roundtable conference, Drawing Room, Lisbon

( 2018 )

artist talk

Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora

( 2015 - 2016 )

Painting BA

Teaching Assistant at Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore MD

( 2014 )

printmaking

Teaching Assistant at Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore MD

( 2013 )

workshop

Citizenship and Peace – Moinho da Juventude, Cova da Moura, Lisbon

( 2008 - 2013 )

drawing and painting

Teaching experience in Artes Visuais at Ar.Co