Paulo Reis Residency

November / 2016

Sofia Pidwell

lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal

Graduated in Advertising at IADE (Institute of Visual Arts, Design and Marketing) and since 2004, after training in painting and drawing at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, dedicated herself to the visual arts.

Since 2009 has had several exhibitions:

- 2016 6th Solo exhibition at Casa Museu Medeiros e Almeida.

- 2016 collective exhibition at SESC Ipiranga, curated by Maria de Fátima Lambert, the second conference of this itinerancy in São Paulo, Brasil,

- 2016 collective PERIPLOS/Portuguese Art Hoy, CAC Malaga, Spain,

- 2015 in Lisbon, Fundação das Comunicações, curated by Maria de Fátima Lambert, the first of four collective itinerant exhibitions in Portugal and Brazil. Participating artists: - Amelie Bouvier (PT), Nazareno Rodrigues (BR) Renato Leal (BR) and Paul Climachauska (BR)

- 2015 launched her own collection of artist editions. Available in www.sp-editions.pt

- October 2014 selected by GAU- Art Gallery of Lisbon City Hall to participate in the Annual Art Show Urbana

- February 2014 commissioned by Natxo Checa, Sofia exhibited at 4 hands with the Angolan artist Yonamine at Museu Arpad Scènes-Vieira da Silva

- Nominated in 2013 for the 10th Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Award(www.amadeudesouza-cardoso.pt)

and for the 16th Biennial of Cerveira (www.bienalcerveira.org)

- 2013 held a solo exhibition curated by Ana Cristina Cachola at the Who gallery in Lisbon

- 2012 received the 3rd Prize for drawings at the Desenha'12 drawing competition, Biblioteca Vicente Campinas,

- 2009 First solo exhibition at the Fundação Medeiros e Almeida.

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Sofia Pidwell

Artist working at Paulo Reis Residency