Helena Almeida
Portugal
Helena Almeida (Lisbon, 1934-2018) graduated in Painting from the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa in 1955. She received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris (1964). Almeida represented Portugal at the São Paulo Biennale in 1979, the Venice Biennale in 1982 and 2004, and the Sydney Biennale in 2004.
From the late 1960s, she focused on an intense reflection on self-representation and the tension between the body, space, and the artwork: her own body became the object and medium of her work. This theme, developed from 1975 onwards, involved the manipulation of media such as painting, drawing, printmaking, installation, photography, and video. A conceptual artist with a strong intellectual foundation, her rigorous and original artistic investigation garnered her significant national and international recognition from the 1970s onward.
From the late 1960s, she focused on an intense reflection on self-representation and the tension between the body, space, and the artwork: her own body became the object and medium of her work. This theme, developed from 1975 onwards, involved the manipulation of media such as painting, drawing, printmaking, installation, photography, and video. A conceptual artist with a strong intellectual foundation, her rigorous and original artistic investigation garnered her significant national and international recognition from the 1970s onward.
