Soraya Vasconcelos
Portugal
Soraya Vasconcelos (born 1977) is an artist, teacher, and researcher. She graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2002 and has also studied Photography and Philosophy. She holds a Doctorate in Fine Arts (2014) from the University of the Algarve. She is a researcher contracted by ICNOVA (2019-2021) for the Photo Impulse project and teaches in the photography course at the Universidade Lusófona.
Her artistic work includes photography, drawing, and printmaking, and she produces publications and installations. In 2005, she was selected for the first photography course of the Gulbenkian Programme of Artistic Creation and Creativity, which gave rise to the photographers' collective DOZE, with whom she developed works in the field of photography and editing, namely Landscape and Population.
She participated in the Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema 2021: Survival; in the exhibition Images with a Life of Their Own, curated by Sandra Vieira Jurgens (Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial - BF18); Estação Vernadsky, a collective and interdisciplinary project proposed together with Susana Gaudêncio and held in Sines (2017), with the support of the Emmérico Nunes Cultural Centre, C. M. Sines, DGA. M.Sines, DGArtes, and F.C. Gulbenkian, resulting in exhibitions, a website, and a book; in the group exhibition O Olho at Ler Devagar - Campo Grande 111 (2015); and in Rede de Residências - Experimentação, Arte, Ciência e Tecnologia (2007).
Her artistic work includes photography, drawing, and printmaking, and she produces publications and installations. In 2005, she was selected for the first photography course of the Gulbenkian Programme of Artistic Creation and Creativity, which gave rise to the photographers' collective DOZE, with whom she developed works in the field of photography and editing, namely Landscape and Population.
She participated in the Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema 2021: Survival; in the exhibition Images with a Life of Their Own, curated by Sandra Vieira Jurgens (Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial - BF18); Estação Vernadsky, a collective and interdisciplinary project proposed together with Susana Gaudêncio and held in Sines (2017), with the support of the Emmérico Nunes Cultural Centre, C. M. Sines, DGA. M.Sines, DGArtes, and F.C. Gulbenkian, resulting in exhibitions, a website, and a book; in the group exhibition O Olho at Ler Devagar - Campo Grande 111 (2015); and in Rede de Residências - Experimentação, Arte, Ciência e Tecnologia (2007).
