Ana Bezelga

Portugal

Ana Bezelga was born in Lisbon (1979), where she still lives and works.
She studied Fine Arts at Maumaus and Visual Arts at the Malmö Art Academy (Sweden), with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
She is currently completing her Doctorate in Visual Arts at the University of Évora, with a research grant from the FCT.
Her work has been exhibited in several countries, including the following exhibitions: The Art of Critical Thinking and Transmuting Experience, Kunstraum Innsbruck, (2004); Impromptu, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö (2009); The Story Framer, Wip: sthlm, Stockholm (2010); Lunds Konsthall Presentation, Lund (2011); A Casa do Firmino, Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven (2011).
In 2009 Bezelga received the Edstrandska Foundation Art Prize and in 2010 the Aase & Richard Björklund Foundation Annual Prize.