Joana Vasconcelos


Joana Vasconcelos is a Portuguese artist known for her large-scale installations.

Biography

Vasconcelos was born in 1971 in Paris, France. Her family returned home to Portugal after their exile to France and following the Carnation Revolution in 1974. She studied at the Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual in Lisbon. In 2009 she received the Order of Prince Henry. She lives and works in Lisbon.

Work

Vasconcelos exhibited at the 2005 Venice Biennale where she included A Noiva , a 20 ft. high chandelier made of over 14,000 OB tampons..
In June 2011, the installation “Contaminação” opened the group exhibition The World Belongs to You, held at Palazzo Grassi..
In 2012, Vasconcelos showed her work at the major annual contemporary art exhibition in the Palace of Versailles. Joana Vasconcelos was the first woman and the youngest contemporary artist to exhibit in Versailles.
In 2020, Vasconcelos created a massive site specific work, "Valkyrie Mumbet" at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Museum in Boston, MA. This exhibition was her first solo show in the United States. The work is part of a series of large scale pieces the artist creates for specific spaces, in homage to inspiring women connected with that location.

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