Ana Vidigal e Vasco Araújo

Ana Vidigal (Lisbon, 1960) holds a degree in painting from the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa and was a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant holder (1985-1987).She has been exhibiting individually since 1981 (selected shows): Casa dos Segredos, IST, Lisbon; Estilo Queen Anne, Baginski Galeria/Projetos, Lisbon; Cine Mar(a)vil(h)a - videos, Teatro Praga, Lisbon. She represented Portugal at the Sharjah Biennial in 2009. Her first anthological exhibition was held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2010, titled Menina Limpa, Menina Suja. Selected public and private collections: Banco de Portugal, Novo Banco, CAM/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Culturgest, the Berardo Collection, the Deutsche Bank Collection, the Manuel de Brito Collection, the Serralves Foundation, the PLMJ Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Elvas, Lisbon Metro, and the Chiado Museum.

Born in Lisbon (1975), where he lives and works, Vasco holds a degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, and attended the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Maumaus. In 2003, he won the EDP New Artists Award.
Artistic residencies: University of Arts (2007), in Philadelphia; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (2007), in Gateshead; Récollets (2005), in Paris; and Core Program (2003-04), in Houston. In 2008, he was nominated for the European Artes Mundi prize, and he participated in the following Biennials: 13th Sydney Biennale (2002), 51st Venice Biennale (2005), 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), 28th São Paulo Biennale (2008). Selected Portuguese an international public and private collections: Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne (France); the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal); the PLMJ Foundation (Portugal); Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Centro de Arte (Spain); the Serralves Foundation (Portugal); the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (USA), among others.