Cecília Costa

Cecília Costa (1971, Caldas da Rainha) studied Mathematics at University of Aveiro, and Visual Arts at the ESAD (Escola Superior de Arte e Design) of Caldas da Rainha, and New Media Art at Lusófona University of Lisbon. Since taking part in the 14th Biennale of Sidney, 2004, she has participated in several international exhibitions, for instance, Portugal: Some Figures, National Institute of Fine Arts in México City, 2005; Portugal Today: Nine Solitaire Positions – MAM gallery, Wien, 2005; Young artists – MAM gallery, Salszburg, 2006. She has exhibited her work individually in Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Oporto and in Galeria Baginski, Lisbon. In more recent shows, she has presented objects, installations, sound, distorted furniture, unexpected materials such as water, ice and helium and different kinds of modifed ready-mades. She is a multidisciplinary artist and, although she has explored a variety of artistic disciplines, drawing and sculpture remain her chosen media, and both feeding on each other.