Born in 1969 Lisbon, Portugal
Education
2001-2003
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA, Painting
1992-1994
School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Boston, MA
BFA, Painting1989-1992
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, Liberal Arts Studies
Group Exhibitions
2018
Art to go: A Benefit For Make The Road NY, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn NY
What’s MY Line?, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Kirk Stoller2017
Text & Image, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn NY, Curated by Edith Newell
2008
Biophilia, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Curated by Ashley Kalemjian
2007
Systems and Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2006
Close Calls, Headlands Center of the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2005
Abstraction is Dead (Long Live Abstraction), Belcher Studios, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Trudy Montgomery
Juried Annual 2004-2005 Exhibition, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Juror Rene de Guzman2004
Line Up, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Traveling Scholars Group Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA2003
Group Show, CIS (Center for Integrated Systems) Stanford University, CA
New California Masters, a juried show of selected graduating Californians MFA’s
WORKS, San Jose, CA, Jurors Lizabeth Oliveria, Bryan Yedinak
Solo Exhibition
1997
Galeria Módulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
Awards
2005
Juror’s Commendation Award- First Place, Juried Annual 2004-2005 Exhibition, Pro Arts Gallery.
Juror Rene de Guzman.2003
SFMOMA SECA Art Award Nomination
2003
Headlands Center for the Arts,MFA Residency Award
2003
Honorable Mention Painting Award, San Francisco Art Institute
2003
Traveling Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2002
Schmidt Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute
2001-2003
Graduate Merit Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute
Bibliography
2007
Teixiera da Mota, Carolina, “Tension between Painting and the Environment,”
Attitude, March Issue 20072006
Van Proyen, Mark, “ ‘Close Calls: 2006’ at the Headlands Center for the Arts, ”
Artweek, April 2006, Volume 37, Issue 32004
Temin, Christine, “A brush with greatness at the Museum School awards show,”
Theatre/Arts, Boston Globe, February 22nd2001
Adriao, Susana, “Pintar e viver na America,”
Retrato, Lux, June Issue 19971997
Porfirio, Jose Luis, “Maria Joao Vasconcelos, Modulo” Cartaz, Expresso, October 25th