Joana Vasconcelos

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Joana Vasconcelos
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Vasconcelos in 2018
Born1971 (1971)
Paris, France
NationalityPortuguese
EducationCentro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Lisbon
Known forSculpture
AwardsOrder of Prince Henry
Websitejoanavasconcelos.com

Joana Vasconcelos (born 1971) is a Portuguese artist known for her large-scale installations.

Biography[]

Vasconcelos was born in 1971 in Paris, France.[1] Her family returned home to Portugal after their exile to France and following the Carnation Revolution in 1974.[2] She studied at the Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual in Lisbon.[3] In 2009 she received the Order of Prince Henry.[4] She lives and works in Lisbon.[3]

Work[]

Vasconcelos exhibited at the 2005 Venice Biennale where she included A Noiva (The Bride), a 20 ft. high chandelier made of over 14,000 OB Tampons.[3]

In June 2011, the installation "Contaminação" opened the group exhibition The World Belongs to You, held at Palazzo Grassi.[3]

In 2012, Vasconcelos showed her work at the major annual contemporary art exhibition in the Palace of Versailles. She was the first woman and the youngest contemporary artist to exhibit in Versailles.[5]

In 2013 the artist represented Portugal in a solo show at the country's pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The work "Trafaria Praia" was installed in an anchored boat and at the same time a floating art gallery.[6]

In 2018 Vasconcelos presented the retrospective exhibition "I'm Your Mirror" at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in Spain, having been the only Portuguese artist to accomplish the honor. The exhibition comprised 30 works representing 25 years of her artistic career.[7]

In 2020, Vasconcelos created a massive site specific work, "Valkyrie Mumbet" at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Museum (MAAM) 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.[8] This particular work honors Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, an enslaved person in Massachusetts who sued to win her freedom.[9]

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)[]

Gallery[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Lamoni, Giulia. "Joana Vasconcelos". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. ^ Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 425. ISBN 0714878774.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Joana Vasconcelos". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas". Presidency of the Portuguese Republic. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  5. ^ Evelyne Politanoff, The Huffington Post "Versailles by Joana Vasconcelos" Retrieved 28 April 2013
  6. ^ Brady, Helen. "Joana Vasconcelos's Floating Pavilion For Portugal At The Venice Biennale". Culture Trip. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Joana Vasconcelos holds up a mirror at the Guggenheim Bilbao". The Independent. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  8. ^ Guerra, Cristela (21 February 2020). "MassArt Opens A New Contemporary Art Museum, And It's Free". WBUR. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Joana Vasconcelos | MassArt Art Museum". maam.massart.edu. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Inaugural: Joana Vasconcelos at the MassArt Art Museum – Boston, MA". Portuguese American Journal. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  11. ^ Dagen, Philippe (3 July 2012). "Joana Vasconcelos: Versailles – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 November 2020.

External links[]

Further reading[]

  • Vasconcelos, Joana (2019). Joana Vasconcelos. Christian K. Scheffel, Christof Trepesch, Peter Joch, Galerie Scheffel. Köln, 2019. ISBN 978-3-86832-399-3. OCLC 1090543439.
  • Vasconcelos, Joana (2019). Joana Vasconcelos: maximal. Achim Sommer, Max Ernst Museum. Munich. ISBN 3-944453-15-8. OCLC 1110580869
  • Vasconcelos, Joana (2018). I'm your mirror. Enrique Juncosa, Petra Joos, Isalina Conde, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Museu Seralves, Kunsthal Rotterdam. Bilbao. ISBN 978-84-17048-81-5. OCLC 1057784624.
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