Susana Mendes Silva
Portugal
Susana Mendes Silva (Lisbon, 1972) is a visual artist, performer, assistant professor at the University of Évora, and a board member of AAVP – Associação de Artistas Visuais em Portugal.
Her artistic practice revolves around drawing, installation, performance, research, archiving practice, and, above all, encounters – with the public, with space, with history, and with her peers. This leads to the creation of works whose references become visible in exhibitions, objects, or actions that convey poetic and political messages.
She studied Sculpture at FBAUL and attended the PhD programme in Visual Arts (Studio Based Research) at Goldsmiths College, London, as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant holder. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Art from the Colégio das Artes of the University of Coimbra, with a thesis based on her performative practice Performance as an Intimate Encounter. She is an assistant professor at the University of Évora in the undergraduate programme in Visual Arts and Multimedia and the master's programme in Landscape Architecture. She is also a researcher at CEIS20 / University of Coimbra.
Her artistic practice revolves around drawing, installation, performance, research, archiving practice, and, above all, encounters – with the public, with space, with history, and with her peers. This leads to the creation of works whose references become visible in exhibitions, objects, or actions that convey poetic and political messages.
She studied Sculpture at FBAUL and attended the PhD programme in Visual Arts (Studio Based Research) at Goldsmiths College, London, as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant holder. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Art from the Colégio das Artes of the University of Coimbra, with a thesis based on her performative practice Performance as an Intimate Encounter. She is an assistant professor at the University of Évora in the undergraduate programme in Visual Arts and Multimedia and the master's programme in Landscape Architecture. She is also a researcher at CEIS20 / University of Coimbra.
