Education:
2010-2012
Master of Fine Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute, NL
2006-2009
BA Fine Arts (Honours) – Studio Practice and Contemporary Critical Studies at Goldsmiths College, UK
Residencies & Grants:
2021
Residência na Porta 33 – Escola do Porto Santo, part of the project Sob a Turbulência curated by Margarida Mendes.
2018
Grant Award by Atelier-Museu J.P./ EGEAC, PT for a residency at Residency Unlimited, NY, USA
2017
Gasworks Residency Program, London, UK
2015
Budapest-Lisbon Artist Residency Exchange Program, Budapest History Museum, HU
2013
Triangle France Residency Program, Marseille, FR
Gulbenkian Grant for the Visual Arts — International Program
2012
Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center, New York, U.S.A.
2011
BES Revelação 2011 by Serralves Museum, PT
Huygens Scholarship Programme (2011-2012), by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Artist in Residence at KunstHuis SYB, Friesland, NL
2008
Hamad Butt Memorial Prize, by Goldsmiths College, UK
Solo/Duo exhibitions:
2023
Areia | Sand, Porta 33, Funchal, PT
2022
Lavradas na Lua, com o Sol. | Worked on the Moon, with the Sun. Quinta de Ventozelo, Ervedosa do Douro, PT
2022
Lavaradas na Lua, com o Sol. | Worked on the Moon, with the Sun. Quinta de Ventozelo, Ervedosa do Douro, PT
2021
Temperance and The Fool | A Temperança e o Louco, CAV, Coimbra, PT
2018
Fire Yearns to Burn | Fogo Anseia Arder, MONITOR, Lisbon, PT
2016
A Devorar o Contíguo | Devouring the Contiguous, Quadrum, Lisbon, PT
Né, TANK, Marseille, FR (duo exhibition with Amandine Guruceaga)
2015
Catarina de Oliveira & Gustavo Sumpta, Ar Sólido, Lisbon, PT (duo exhibition with Gustavo Sumpta)
2011
Rehearsal for: As each of us was many people, together we became quite a crowd!
Sala Bebé, Lisbon, PT (duo exhibition with Jane Fawcett)
Selected performances and screenings:
2020
Ao Escapar o Meu Cadáver, Culturgest, PT
2018
Escaping my Corpse, Residency Unlimited, NY
Fuso—Video Art Festival, MAAT, Lisbon, PT
2017
Performance Day #2: Le Musée Performé, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, FR
(re-staging of The Chronicles of the Blue Crab)
Experiments in Cinema v12.3, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2016
Fuso—Video Art Festival, MAAT, Lisbon, PT
2015
While we were all becoming intoxicated by the fecundity of it all they were disguising themselves, so well that they even fooled their own kind! Tropical Botanical Garden of Lisbon, PT (in collaboration with Kirsty Roberts)
2013
The Chronicles of the Blue Crab, Parkour, Lisbon, PT
The traits of his character, the forms of his existence, the episodes of his life, even in keeping with the search for which he feels responsible to the point of irresponsibility, belong to no one. Vera Cortês, Lisbon, PT
2012
It seems the hardest is realizing you are in charge – The Chronicles of the Blue Crab,
Open rehearsal at the Watermill Center, New York, USA
2011
At first people thought I was building, a garden for magical purposes,
Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL (in collaboration with Kirsty Roberts)
Selected group exhibitions:
2017
Ecstatic Sphinx – Drawing and Animism Part II, CIAPG, PT (curated by Nuno Faria)
Being Close/Terrae nubilus NAK, Aachen, DE (curated by Estelle Nabeyrat)
2013
Apesar de tudo, nunca se sentia só ou triste, o futuro fazia-lhe companhia ou Le petit Lenormand (cartomancia e probabilidade) Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon, PT (curated by Luís Silva)
2012
Off the S(h)elf, Stockwell Studios, London, UK (curated by Paula Roush, Teresa Paiva & Maria Lusitano)
A Map of Misreading, TENT, Rotterdam, NL (curated by Christina Li)
2011
BESrevelação 2011, Serralves Museum, Porto, PT (curated by Ana Anacleto)
Life of an Artist, Live in Your HEAD, Genève, CH (curated by Lili Reynaud Dewar)
NOCATION, KunstHuis SYB, Friesland, NL (curated by Bernd Krauss)
Publications
2021
Inland Journal; edited byEduardo Matos e André Cepeda
2018
Gorsedd; Issue 22 of Art Licks, edited by Holly Willats and Miriam Austin. (magazine)
Catarina de Oliveira published by Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar / EGEAC, Lisbon (book)
2016
Budapest Cycle — Catarina de Oliveira; João Mourão (ed); José Marmeleira; published by EGEAC and Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon (book)
Nè – Catarina de Oliveira et Amandine Guruceaga – TANK Art Space by Valérie Toubas and Daniel Guionnet in Point Contemporain, available at:
http://pointcontemporain.com/ne-catarina-de-oliveira-amandine-guruceaga-tank-art-space
Printemps de l’art Contemporain 2016 by Lé Bismuth in Art Press available at:
http://www.artpress.com/2016/05/20/printemps-de-lart-contemporain-2016/
Printemps de l’art Contemporain by Margaux Barthélémy in Hashtagart, available at:
http://hashtagart.fr/daily/printemps-de-lart-contemporain-marseille/
2015
Catarina de Oliveira, Stigmart Video Focus Special, Edition NVK, available at: http://issuu.com/stigmart10press/docs/stigmart_videofocus_special_edition_a5d8992dc412a6/64
2014
Uma Nova Geração by Sandra Vieira Jurgens in arqa – Arquitectura e Arte Contemporâneas, issue 115 July-August 2014 (magazine)
La crise et l’art by Charlotte Serrola in I HEART Lisbonne #18, Fall 2014 (magazine)
2012
The Chronicles of the Blue Crab, artist book; limited edition of 200 copies; but there is an online version at http://www.scribd.com/CatarinaDeO
A Map of Misreading, edited by Christina Li and published by PZI. (book)
2011
BESrevelação 2011, published by Serralves Museum – with texts by Mike and Sperlinger. (book)
Catarina de Oliveira 