Nominated by
Ana Cardoso
“Untitled”, 2008, Acrylic on paper glued on canvas, 230 x 260 cm Private collection
“Magnólia”, 2000, Marker and acrylic on projection screen, 181 x 32 x 59 cm, Fundacion ARCO-OGAC collection
“Inscription on used desktop”, undated, 80 x 186 cm, Private collection
“Untitled (from the Grandes Mestres da Literatura Policial series)”, 2010, Charcoal on enamel on canvas, 81 x 100 cm, Private collection
“Untitled (from the Os Touros de Mary Foster' series)”, 1994, Graphite pencil and collage on paper, 160 x 120 cm, Private collection
“Untitled (from the Luna Park series)”, 2006, Painted cardboard, 148 x 27 x 25cm, Private collection
“A Conquistadora (from the Luna Park series)”, 2006, Polystyrene, painted cardboard, nails, 64 x 89 x 11 cm, Private collection
“Untitled (from the '21 Artistes pour Demain' series)”, 2008 / Oil on canvas / 65x78cm / Private collection
“Écoutez”, 2007, Acrylic on projection screen, 185 x 53 x 59 cm, Private collection
“Untitled (from the 21 Artistes pour Demain series)”, 2008, Oil on canvas, 65 x 78 cm, Collection of the artist
Ana Jotta
(Lisbon, Portugal, 1946) Lives and works in Lisbon.
She studied at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon) and at the École de Arts Visuels et d´Architecture de l´Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels (Belgium), between 1965 and 1968. After a long theatre experience as actress (1969-1980) she focused her activity on the Visual Arts.
Above all a painter, Ana Jotta collects her working materials from very different sources: artistic – reaching from important references of contemporary and modernist art (Hopper, Picabia, Klee, Broodthaers, etc) to amateur painters – and everyday's and popular culture's objects, being then intervened and appropriated in the most different ways.
She is exhibiting regularly since 1979, of special note are her individual exhibitions “Exposição #1”, Culturgest (Lisbon, 2009); “S/he is her/e”, Chiado 8 (Lisbon, 2008) and the retrospective “Rua Ana Jotta. Retrospectiva” at the Serralves Museum, (Oporto, Portugal, 2005). Among her group shows of special note are: “O consolo da pintura“, Tranquilidade Company (Lisbon, 2011); “89 Km – Colecció CGAC”, MARCO – Museu de Arte Contemporânea of Vigo (Spain, 2010); “Multiple Directions”, MNAC – Museu do Chiado (Lisbon, 2008); “Anos 80, uma topologia”, Serralves Museum (Oporto, 2007); “En Voyage, Le Plateau”: FRAC – Île de France, Paris (2006); Lis81 (Lisbon) and Lis79 (Lisbon). She participated in the 1st Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa, in 1995 and is a regular presence at ARCO (Madrid, Spain) since 1992. Her work is very often shown in galleries like Alda Cortez (Lisbon), EMI-Valentin Carvalho (Lisbon), João Esteves de Oliveira (Lisbon), among others.
Her work integrates both public and private collections, as Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Lisbon; Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon; CAM – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; ARCO Foundation, Madrid (Spain); EDP, Foundation, Lisbon; FLAD - Luso American Development Foundation, Lisbon; Museu de Serralves, Oporto.
2013 - Grande Prémio Fundação EDP;
2014 - Prémio AICA;
2017 - Rosa Shapire Award, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
