Alexandra do Carmo lives and works in Portugal, holds a PhD in Artistic Studies Art and Mediations, Nova University of Lisbon (FCSH-IHA). Also studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, NY; at Pratt institute (masters degree), Brooklyn and at The Center of Art and Visual Comunication (Ar.Co) in Lisbon. Exhibited widely in Portugal, United States, Germany, Spain, Ireland. Most significative projects include: Earthkeping/Earthshaking (To have a finger caught to create tension/Red line campaign with the students climate strike at Rossio, Lisbon, 15 of March 2020, Quadrum gallery, Lisbon 2020, The Green Studio at IC19, 2018 at Sismografo, Porto, Studio Socialis, 2014, Carlos Carvalho Gallery (CCG), Lisbon; Everything was captured (even the movements of the goat),Quadrum gallery, 2011/2023, Lisbon CCB, Lisbon 2016, Office/Commercial, 2008 at CCG; A Willow (Or without Godot), 2006/2010, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Collections include Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ilidio Pinho Foundation (Porto). Supporters: Gulbenkian Foundation; Luso-American Foundation; Institute of the Arts. Most significative awards and grants include the Foundation for Science and Thecnology, the Gulbenkian Foundation, The Institute of the Arts, The Luso American Foundation, and the city hall of Lisbon.
Her practice is focused on the studio as a conceptual field of study—the studio as a lens through which to investigate relations between artist and public, revealing the dynamics, conditions and limits of authorship.
Her main area of research is the concept of Artistic Autonomy for Public Use. 2020 Flash Art “Earthkeeping / Earthshaking – Art, Feminisms and Ecology” Galeria Quadrum, https://www.buala.org/pt/cara-a-cara/percurso-que-fizemos-em-conjunto-conversa-com-as-curadoras-de-earthkeeping-earthshaking-?fbclid=IwAR2gZbSgTyqNIZPqzxevalpxhDC8-m0OHZv9fuJjIai12lJ9G4E2AgXP9BU, por Teresa Castro https://flash---art.com/contributor/teresa-castro/ . 2018 Bruno Marques, Alexandra do Carmo :Emancipation and Resistance : suburban Allotments, espontaneous and clandestine, https://www.sismografo.org/pt/programacao/o-atelier-verde-no-ic-19/, https://www.academia.edu/38001548. 2022 Alexandra do Carmo e Daniela Salazar RHA 11
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Alexandra do Carmo vive e trabalha em Portugal. é doutorada em Estudos Artísticos Arte e Mediações, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, FCSH-IHA 2018-2022, Portugal. Estudou no Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, de 2004 a 2005, EUA. Tem um mestrado em Artes Visuais, pelo Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 2000-2003, EUA. Concluiu a Fase de projecto em desenho, no Ar.CO, 1999, bem como o Curso Avançado, 1996-1998 e o Curso de desenho 1994-1996. Projectos mais significativos Tudo foi Captado (mesmo os movimentos do cabrito), galeria Quadrum, 2011/2023, CCB, 2016, Earthkeping/Earthshaking (Ter um dedo preso para criar a tensão/Campanha Linha Vermelha com a Greve Climática Estudantil no Rossio, Lisboa, 15 de Março de 2020, galeria Quadrum 2020, O Ateliê Verde no IC19, Sismógrafo, 2018, Casa dos Direitos Sociais, 2018, Biblioteca de Marvila, 2019, Portugal, Studio Socialis, Galeria Carlos Carvalho (GCC) 2014, Portugal, Office/Commercial GCC, 2008, International Studio & Curatorial Program, 2009, EUA, A Willow (Or without Godot), Collecting The New: Recent Aquisitions to the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art Irlanda, 2006/2010. 2018 FCT/Universidade Nova Bolsa de doutoramento. 2015 FCGulbenkian para o projecto O Ateliê Verde no IC 19. 2011: CMLisboa para o projecto Tudo foi Captado (mesmo os movimentos do cabrito) 2006: FCGulbenkian para o projecto The Steam Shop (or the painter's studio). 2006: Instituto das Artes para o projecto: The Steam Shop (or the painter's studio) 2004: Fundação Luso Americana e Instituto das Artes para a residência artística no Location One, EUA. 2004 FCGulbenkian para o projecto Wild m5, Museu de História Natural de Lisboa. 2001-2003: FCGulbenkian e Fundação Luso Americana, bolsa de Mestrado nos EUA.
A sua pratica artística centra-se no ateliê como campo conceptual de estudo; um filtro através do qual e com o qual investiga a interdependência entre o/a artista e o espaço público, revelando as dinâmicas, condições e limites da autoria. A sua area de investigação relaciona-se com o conceito de autonomia artística de uso público. 2020 https://www.buala.org/pt/cara-a-cara/percurso-que-fizemos-em-conjunto-conversa-com-as-curadoras-de-earthkeeping-earthshaking-?fbclid=IwAR2gZbSgTyqNIZPqzxevalpxhDC8-m0OHZv9fuJjIai12lJ9G4E2AgXP9BU, Flash Art “Earthkeeping / Earthshaking – Art, Feminisms and Ecology” Galeria Quadrum por Teresa Castro, https://flash---art.com/contributor/teresa-castro/ . 2018 https://www.sismografo.org/pt/programacao/o-atelier-verde-no-ic-19/, Bruno Marques, Alexandra do Carmo :Emancipation and Resistance : suburban Allotments, espontaneous and clandestine, https://www.academia.edu/38001548. 2022 Alexandra do Carmo e Daniela Salazar RHA 11
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RESUME

Academic Training
2018-2023 PhD in Artistic Studies Art and Mediations, Nova University (FCSH-IHA), Lisbon, 
2004-2005 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, 2004/2005.
2003 Masters of Fine Arts Degree, Pratt Institute, New York, 2003.
1999 Project year in Drawing, Ar.CO, Center of Art and Visual Communication Lisbon.
1998 Advanced Course in Fine Arts, Ar.CO Lisbon.
1996 Drawing course, Ar.CO, Lisbon. 

Solo Exhibitions
The Green Studio at IC 19, Sismografo, Porto, October 2018.
Studio Socialis, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon September 2014.
All was captured (even the movements of the goat), Quadrum Gallery, Lisbon 2011.
Office/Commercial, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon 2008.
The Other Echo, with the collaboration of Abinadi Meza, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon, 2006.
A Willow (Or without Godot), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2006.
Wild M5 Sala do Veado, National Natural History Museum, Lisbon, 2004.
Micron 005, Lugar Comum-Fábrica da Pólvora, Barcarena, Portugal 2004.
Uma Sala com Repetição de Tudo, Modulo Gallery Lisbon, 2003.

Group Exhibitions
2023 Quadrum 50 anos uma fogueira cultural, curator Paulo Mandes, Quadrum gallery, Lisbon.
2023 A Casa era a Rua, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, curator Alexandre Melo, Lisbon. 
2020 Earthkeeping/Earthshaking, Quadrum gallery, curators Giulia Lamoni e Vanessa Badagliacca, Lisbon.
2016 Internacional Symposium; Performance Portuguese Art, 2 cyles for one archive.Centro Cultural de Belem (CCB), artistic/documental show, curator Cláudia Madeira, Lisbon.
2015 Cerveira Biennial, Vila Nova de Cerveira.
2011 Between Document and Fiction, curator José Carlos Teixeira, Passos Manuel, Maus Hábitos, Porto.
2010 Collecting The New: Recent Aquisitions to the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art,Dublin.
2009 1 Século, 10 Lápis, 100 Desenhos: Viarco Express, Museu da Presidência da República, Lisbon.
2009 Financial District, curator Miguel Amado, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York.
2009 Lá Fora, curator João Pinharanda, Electricity Museum, Lisbon, 2009.
2008 I Certamen de Dibujo Contemporaneo Pilar Y Andres Centenera Jaraba, Guadalajara, Spain.
2006 The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2006.
2006 The Steam Shop (or The Painter’s Studio), curators Alexandra do Carmo, Liliana Coutinho, Sara Matos, Lugar Comum, Barcarena, Portugal.
2006 Space, Place & Interface, LiveBox Gallery at Ravenswood, Chicago.
2005 E=mc2, curator Miguel Amado, Museum of Science and Technology, Coimbra, Portugal.
2005 Bread Matters III, curator Inês Amado, West Cork Arts Center, Cork.
2005 Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program Exhibition, New York.
2005 Draw, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2004 Paper and Process, Art Projects International, New York.
2004 New Work Artists in Residence, curator Nathalie Anglès, Location One, New York, 2004.
2003 GO, Liquidacion-Total, Madrid.
2002 Expect the World moinonplus, curator Alexandre Estrela, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
2002 Symposium Art Values: Public and Private, Pratt Institute, (selections; Janet Koplos) New York.
2002 Amadeu de Sousa Cardoso- Third Prize, City Museum, Amarante, Portugal.
2000 Desenho, Mitra Gallery, Lisbon.

Residencies/Workshops
Pó de Vir a Ser, Évora, Portugal, 2024.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2006.
Location One, New York, 2004.
Triangle Artist’s Workshop, New York, 2004.

Talks/Events
2024 Talk/presentation integrated at the colective Transcinema Comum (Casa do Comum), Lisbon.
2022 (23/05) Speaker at workshop Práticas Artísticas Confinadas, Resistência e Colectivismo na Pandemia de Covid 19 em Portugal, within the Graduate Seminar 'Crafting the Past: Materials, Materialities, Materialisms', organized by IHC/NOVA, oIN2Past Associated Laboratory, and the Department of History of Art at UCLU. Universidade de Évora.

2022 (05/04 ) Guest artist: Alexandra do Carmo & Joshua Schwebel, pública event within Práticas Artísticas Confinadas's project, Resistência e Colectivismo na Pandemia de Covid 19 em Portugal, Teatro Chão de Oliva, Sintra.
2020 Guest artist: a conversation between Alexandra do Carmo and Bonnie Ora Sherk within Earthkeeping/Earthshaking--Art, Feminisms and Ecology. 
2019 (19, 20/11)  Speaker at ciclo de conferências Campos de Colaboração, Culturgest, Lisboa.
2019 Guest speaker/artist at Lab3 City/Archive, Lisbon, within the project 2019 
2018 Guest speaker/artist with the project The Green Studio at IC 19, within the Seminary Urbanism and Spatial justice The Right to the City, CIAUD/FA-UL Marvila, Lisboa, Lisbon.
2018 Speaker at the International conference Times and Movements of the image, at Politecnical Institute of Leiria, Caldas da Rainha.
2016 Speaker/artist at Simposium Performance Stories in Portugal with Bruno Marques, CCB Lisbon.
2015 Speaker/artist at Mesa de Montagem, Nova University, presentation of artistic work with Maile Colbert, Lisbon.
2014 Guest artist at ISCTE, presentation and discussion of projects with students, with Luisa Especial, Lisbon.
2013 Guest artist at Residency Unlimited, work presentation of Studio Socialis project with Maud Jaquin and Luisa Especial, New York.

Grants
2018 FCT Foundation for Science and Technology/Nova University for a PhD in Artistic Studies.
2015:  Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for project The green Studio at IC19
2011: City Hall of Lisbon for project All was captured (even the movements of the goat) 
2006: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for project The Steam Shop (or the painter's studio).
2006: The Institute of the Arts for project The Steam Shop (or the painter's studio) 
2004: Luso-American Foundation and Institute of the Arts for residency Location One. 
2004 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for project Wild m5. 
2001-2003: Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation (scholarship for Masters degree in the USA-Pratt Institute).

Publications
2020 Flash Art “Earthkeeping / Earthshaking – Art, Feminisms and Ecology” Galerias Municipais – Galeria Quadrum / Lisbon, por Teresa Castro, 2020—https://flash---art.com/contributor/teresa-castro/ Giulia Lamoni e Vanessa Badagliacca Catálogo da exposição Earthkeeping Earthshaking, Galeria Quadrum.
https://www.buala.org/pt/cara-a-cara/percurso-que-fizemos-em-conjunto-conversa-com-as-curadoras-de-earthkeeping-earthshaking-?fbclid=IwAR2gZbSgTyqNIZPqzxevalpxhDC8-m0OHZv9fuJjIai12lJ9G4E2AgXP9BU,
Alexandra do Carmo e Daniela Salazar A Platform of Theoretical Connections Between Artistic Practices, Processes and Curatorial Apparatus RHA 11 https://institutodehistoriadaarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/RHA_W11-1.pdf
2018 Bruno Marques, Alexandra do Carmo :Emancipation and Resistance : suburban Allotments, espontaneous and clandestine. https://www.academia.edu/38001548/ALEXANDRA_DO_CARMO._EMANCIPATION_AND_RESISTANCE_SUBURBAN_ALLOTMENTS_SPONTANEOUS_AND_CLANDESTINE_
2017 Alexandra do Carmo, The Green Studio at IC19, Interact online magazine, http://interact.com.pt/26/o-atelier-verde-no-ic-19/ .
2017 Cláudia Madeira, A (NON) REPRESENTATIVE SHOW OF THE PORTUGUESE PERFORMANCE ART, Revista de História da Arte (RHA_W_6). 
2017 Alexandra do Carmo and Bruno Marques, Performamce Stories in Portugal: Storytelling at Quadrum in http://revistaharte.fcsh.unl.pt/rhaw6/RHA_W_6.pdf
2011 Catarina ROSENDO, Representations of a Community of Experience in Alexandra do Carmo. "Tudo foi captado (mesmo os movimentos do cabrito)". "Everything was captured (even the movements of the goat)", Lisboa, Galeria Quadrum.
2011 Catarina Rosendo e Lígia Afonso, Quadrum Arquivo Paralelo (website) http://quadrumarquivoparalelo.blogspot.com/p/alexandra-do-carmo-tudo-foi-captado.html .
2010 (05/28) Elizabeth FITZHERBERT, “Latest Additions to IMMA's Permanent Collection Provoke Thought,”The Wall Street Journal.  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB127499343055497949.html .
2010 (May) Simon JUDGE and Ruth KENNY, “Collecting the New,” The Dubliner Magazine.
2009 João PINHARANDA [et al.] “Artistas Portugueses Lá Fora (Portuguese Artists Abroad)”. Lisboa: Museu da Electricidade.  
2009 (March/April) David BARRO, Animal Gaze. NY Arts Magazine.
2009 Pedro RAPOULA, (ed.) Um século, Dez lápis, Cem desenhos. Lisboa : Museu da Presidência da República.
2008 Nuno CUNHA, “A Search oneʼs own Artistic Practice,” E-Vai online arts magazine.
2008 David BARRO, “Las fissuras perceptivas de Alexandra do Carmo”, in Office/Commercial, Dardo ds/ Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Santiago de Compostela/Lisboa.
2008 Bruno MARQUES Prospective Memory for an artist studio in Brooklyn in Office/Commercial catalogue,Dardo ds/ Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Santiago de Compostela/Lisboa.
2006 Bruno MARQUES, The Steam Shop (or the painter's studio)' From the expansion of the Studio to an anthropological view of the site’. http://www.interfaceartecontemporanea.org/ensaios_criticos.htm
2006 Miguel von Hafe PÉREZ (ed.) Anamnese. Porto: Fundação Ilídio Pinho.
Collections (selection).
2005 http://www.studiovisit.net, Dinosaur Drawings i.e. in www.anamnese.pt.
2004 Jonathan GOODMAN, Time’s Archeologist ,2007--The Monkeys Gaze, i.e. in www.anamnese.pt. Ilidio Pinho Foundation.
2004 Robert KNAFO On the Paleontology-Democracy Continuum.
2004 (9/18) Luisa Soares de OLIVEIRA Looking for Fragments, in Público. 

Collections
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Ilidio Pinho Foundation
Colecção Norlinda e José Lima