Carla Abrantes

Carla Abrantes art practice embraces a variety of media extending from drawing to photography, installation, collage, painting and performative gestures.Her works are imbued with a coded sense of intimacy and a continuous search for the renovation of boundaries: boundaries of the image, of representation and of the expectation of how a two dimensional work should look like.

Within her self-reflection she has explored feminist issues, issues of displacement, of disappearance of the body and escapism.

Abrantes was born in Porto, Porto in 1977. She received an MFA from the School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, US and her BFA, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Porto. She has exhibited and is part of several private and institutional art collections in Portugal, United Estates, Belgium, France, Greece, Spain and Cyprus. Carla Abrantes is the recipient of numerous academic and contemporary art awards and grants, including the Fulbright Fellowship, the James Rizzi Fund for artistic excellence (USA) and the Isolino Vaz National Painting prize (PTG). She currently works between Porto, Portugal and Limassol, Cyprus.