Susana Figueira : South Africa : 1976Studied Fine Arts in Valencia and Funchal, where she received a licentiate degree in Fine Arts/Painting in 2000, at the Department of Art and Design - University of Madeira. In 2005, she concluded the Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) at the San Carlos Faculty of Fine Arts/UPV, Spain. She was awarded a mobility scholarship by MECD, Spain (2003). Since 1997, she has participated in various collective exhibits in Portugal and abroad. Her work 7 Deadly Sins won 1st prize (ex aequo) for Painting, at the Casa das Mudas Exhibit (1999). In 2003, she received an honourable mention at the 3rd Edition of the latter. In 2007, she took part in the collective exhibit Animal Ration, at the MAC Funchal, with her Lords of Arse-Licking, a work of social commentary through satire. As of 2000, she began to explore the aesthetic relation between the comical and the grotesque, resulting in her works The World is Mere Farce, Man is But a Buffoon (2002), and Inside Out (2001), a triptych that, when closed upon itself, displays two burlesque characters mooning the observer.…Read More
Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (DEA). Trabalho de investigao: Lo ldico en el arte como cuestionamiento de la sociedad del lujo: Propuestas creativas personales. Orientado por: Doctor. Miguel Molina Alarcn, Catedrtico de Universidad - Sub Director de Investigacin. Programa de Doctorado, Departamento de Escultura - Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, Espanha, 20 de Fevereiro de 2005
Especialista Universitrio em Artes Visuales e Intermedia, Programa de Doctorado, Departamento de Escultura - Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, Espanha, 2002 04
Licenciada em Artes Plsticas, variante de Pintura, Departamento de Arte e Design/Universidade da Madeira, 1996 2001
Susana Figueira was born in Durban, South Africa, in 1976. She lives and works in Madeira, Portugal. Master in Visual Arts and Intermedia, Department of Sculpture, University of Valencia, Spain Painting degree at the Department of Art & Design (University of Madeira), 1996 - 2001
Bolsas e Prmios de estudo desfrutados Grants
2003 - Bolsa de mobilidade do MECD - Ministerio de Educacin Cultura y Deporte, Espanha 99/2000 - Bolsa de mobilidade Scrates Erasmus, estudante free mover, Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, UPV - Valncia, Espanha
Exposies individuais Solo exhibitions
2006 - Ars Culae, Chega de Saudade caf, Funchal
1998 - Mostra, caf Fora dHoras, Funchal
Exposies colectivas Group exhibitions (selection)
2009 Linha de Partida, colectiva dos premiados ao concurso Henrique e Francisco Franco, Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, comissariada por Alexandre Melo. (obra: Dana dos Corcundas) http://www.centrodasartes.com
2008 Horizonte mvel : Artes Plsticas na Madeira 1960-2008 comissariada por Isabel Santa Clara, (comemoraes dos 500 anos da cidade do Funchal), Museu de Arte Contempornea do Funchal.
2007 - Rao para animais, com Bruno Crte e Duarte Encarnao - Museu de Arte Contempornea, Fortaleza de So Tiago, Funchal
2005 - International Contemporary youth film creation exhibition, Cheng Shiu University Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2003 - Hybrid Spaces - Hybrid Acts, FOURNOS - Centre for Digital Culture, organizao grupo plegma, Atenas, Grcia
-Participao na 2 edio V.A.I.A - Vdeo Art Internacional dAlcoi, Espanha
-3 Concurso Regional Prmio Henrique e Francisco Franco, Casa da Cultura da Calheta, Madeira
2001 - Ida y Volta com Duarte Encarnao, Galeria Edicarte, Funchal
2000- Participao na Feira de Arte MARCA - Madeira, Madeira Tecnopolo, Funchal
1999- 1 Concurso regional de Artes Plsticas Casa das Mudas , Casa da Cultura da Calheta, Madeira
- 20 Anos de Artes Plsticas na Madeira - Museu de Arte Contempornea, Fortaleza de So Tiago, Funchal
1997 Sobrevivncia, espao espritus, Esprito da Coisa, Cmara de Lobos, Madeira
Outras actividades Other activities
2008 - Pintura mural, feios, Chega de Saudade Caf, Funchal
Prmios Prizes
2003- Meno honrosa com Yiyi, 3 edio do prmio Henrique e Francisco Franco, Casa das Mudas, Casa da Cultura da Calheta, Madeira
1999 1 prmio de Pintura, aquisio/ex-aequo, com 7 Pecados Capitais, 1 Concurso Regional de Artes Plsticas Casa das Mudas, Calheta
Coleces Collections
7 Pecados Capitais Casa das Mudas, Casa da Cultura da Calheta, Madeira
Representada em vrias coleces privadas
Catlogos Catalogs
- Linha de Partida, Centro das Artes, Madeira, 2009 - Horizonte mvel : Artes Plsticas na Madeira 1960-2008 Museu de Arte Contempornea do Funchal, 2008 - www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk - www.anamnese.pt - rao para animais, Museu de Arte Contempornea do Funchal, 2007 - Youth Film Festival in Southern Taiwan, 2005 - V.A.I.A II Mostra de Video Art Internacional dAlcoi , Espaa, 2003 - 3 Concurso Regional de Artes Plsticas Casa das Mudas, 2003 - Robert Morris, DRAWING PHOTO DRAWING, Talleres Caada Blanch/Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, 2000 - 20 Anos de Artes Plsticas na Madeira, Museu de Arte Contempornea do Funchal, 2000 - 1 Concurso Regional de Artes Plsticas Casa das Mudas, 1999