Ana Jotta

Ana Jotta is a Portuguese artist born in 1946[2] in Lisbon.

Ana Jotta
Born1946 (1946)
Lisbon, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
EducationEscola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (ESBAL), Lisbon; La Cambre, Brussels
Known forVisual art, installation
AwardsGrande Prémio EDP/Arte 2013[1]

Early life

Ana Jotta studied art at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon) and at La Cambre in Brussels.[3] From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema and theatre. She became more focused on visual arts since the 1980s.[4]

Career

Jotta explores all artistic fields: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, photography. She also works with craft techniques like sewing, embroidery and pottery.[5] Her projects are extremely varied, she invents new and unexpected forms for each of her exhibitions. Her work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums[6] such as the Drawing Center (New York, 1994), Sagacho Exhibit Space (Tokyo, 1997), Galicia Contemporary Art Centre (Santiago de Compostela, 2004),[7] Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, 2016),[8] Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, 2019),[9] Culturgest (Porto, 2016),[10] the Crédac (Ivry, 2016),[11] the Berardo Museum (Lisbon, 2020),[12] Keijiban (Kanazawa, 2021).[13] In 2018, she co-curated with Ricardo Valentim "from A to C",[14] an exhibition of works by Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes at Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.

Jotta has had two major career retrospectives: "Rua Ana Jotta"[15] at Museu Serralves (Porto, 2005)[16] and "A Conclusão da Precedente" at Culturgest (Lisboa, 2014).[17]

References
  1. Rato, Vanessa. "Ana Jotta, "a mais jovem das artistas portuguesas", ganhou o Grande Prémio EDP". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  2. "Ana Jotta | Widewalls". www.widewalls.ch. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  3. "ProjectoMAP – Mapa de Artistas de Portugal". Project MAP. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  4. "Ana Jotta at le Crédac – Art Viewer". Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  5. "Ana Jotta: DAS". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  6. ArtFacts. "Ana Jotta | Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  7. ArtFacts. "20+1 artistas portugueses nas coleccións do CGAC | Exhibition". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  8. "Ana Jotta | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art". www.biennial.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  9. Antaya, Christine. "Malmö Konsthall". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  10. "Ana Jotta at Culturgest Porto - Artmap.com". artmap.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  11. Bonnet, Frédéric. "Ana Jotta : « J'utilise la banalité d'une vie pour la transformer » - 26 avril 2016 - Le Journal des Arts - n° 456". Le Journal Des Arts (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  12. "ProjectoMAP 2010-2020". Agenda Cultural de Lisboa (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  13. "Un jour sans pain* est un jour sans soleil". Keijiban. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  14. "Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes from A to C". Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  15. "Rua Ana Jotta".
  16. "Obra de Ana Jotta da coleção de Serralves". Infraestruturas de Portugal (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  17. "A Conclusão da Precedente". Culturgest (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
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