Ana Jotta
Ana Jotta | |
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Born | 1946 |
Nationality | Portuguese |
Education | Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (ESBAL), Lisbon; La Cambre, Brussels |
Known for | Visual art, installation |
Awards | Grande Prémio EDP/Arte 2013[1] |
Ana Jotta is a Portuguese artist born in 1946[2] in Lisbon.
Early life
Ana Jotta studied art at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon) and at La Cambre in Brussels.[3] From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema and theatre. She became more focused on visual arts since the 1980s.[4]
Career
Jotta explores all artistic fields: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, photography. She also works with craft techniques like sewing, embroidery and pottery.[5] Her projects are extremely varied, she invents new and unexpected forms for each of her exhibitions. Her work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums[6] such as the Drawing Center (New York, 1994), Sagacho Exhibit Space (Tokyo, 1997), Galicia Contemporary Art Centre (Santiago de Compostela, 2004),[7] Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, 2016),[8] Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, 2019),[9] Culturgest (Porto, 2016),[10] the Crédac (Ivry, 2016),[11] the Berardo Museum (Lisbon, 2020),[12] Keijiban (Kanazawa, 2021).[13] In 2018, she co-curated with Ricardo Valentim "from A to C",[14] an exhibition of works by Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes at Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
Jotta has had two major career retrospectives: "Rua Ana Jotta"[15] at Museu Serralves (Porto, 2005)[16] and "A Conclusão da Precedente" at Culturgest (Lisboa, 2014).[17]
References
- ^ Rato, Vanessa. "Ana Jotta, "a mais jovem das artistas portuguesas", ganhou o Grande Prémio EDP". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ^ "Ana Jotta | Widewalls". www.widewalls.ch. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "ProjectoMAP – Mapa de Artistas de Portugal". Project MAP. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "Ana Jotta at le Crédac – Art Viewer". Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "Ana Jotta: DAS". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ ArtFacts. "Ana Jotta | Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ ArtFacts. "20+1 artistas portugueses nas coleccións do CGAC | Exhibition". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ^ "Ana Jotta | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art". www.biennial.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ Antaya, Christine. "Malmö Konsthall". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "Ana Jotta at Culturgest Porto - Artmap.com". artmap.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ Bonnet, Frédéric. "Ana Jotta : « J'utilise la banalité d'une vie pour la transformer » - 26 avril 2016 - Le Journal des Arts - n° 456". Le Journal Des Arts (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "ProjectoMAP 2010-2020". Agenda Cultural de Lisboa (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ^ "Un jour sans pain* est un jour sans soleil". Keijiban. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ "Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes from A to C". Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "Rua Ana Jotta".
- ^ "Obra de Ana Jotta da coleção de Serralves". Infraestruturas de Portugal (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "A Conclusão da Precedente". Culturgest (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
External links
- Ana Jotta works at the Gulbenkian Museum