Mónica de Miranda

Mónica de Miranda lives and works in Lisbon and Luanda. Mónica is an Angolan/ Portuguese visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, and researcher who works on postcolonial issues of geography and history. De Miranda's work is research-based and looks at the convergence of politics, gender, memory and space. Her works typically consist of video, photography and installation and  in its expanded forms and on the boundaries between fiction and documentary. She holds a Visual Arts Degree from the Camberwell College of Arts (London, 1998), a Master’s Degree in Art and Education from the Institute of Education (London, 2000) and a PhD in Visual Art from the University of Middlesex (London, 2014). Mónica is also one of the founders of the artistic residencies project Triangle Network in Portugal and she founded in 2014 the project Hangar – Center for Artistic Research, in Lisbon. In 2019 she was nominated for EDP Prize in Maat Museum (Lisbon, Portugal) and in  2016 she was nominated for Novo Banco Photo Prize and exhibited at Museu Coleção Berardo (Lisbon, Portugal) as a finalist. Mónica was also nominated for Prix Pictet Photo Award in the same year. Mónica de Miranda has participated in various residencies in institutions such as the Tate Britain, French Institute, British Council/Iniva. Her work is present in public collections like the MAAT, Ministery of Culture of Portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado and Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa.