Ana Vidigal

Ana Vidigal’s (Lisbon, 1960) work resorts to painting, from collage, assemblage and installation as processes of decontextualization and reconfiguration of images withdrawn from different sources, exploring matters as social and political values and even memories as carriers of those subjects. Graduated in Painting at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts in 1984, Ana Vidigal won a scholarship from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (1985-1987). She studied etching under Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, at the Casa das Artes in Tavira (1989), and was painter in residence at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Fortaleza de São Tiago, Funchal (1989-1999). In 1995, she was commissioned by Lisbon Underground to create tiled panels for Alvalade station, and again in 2002 – this time for the new Alfornelos station.