Ana Cardoso
Ana Cardoso (Lisbon, 1978) lives and works between Lisbon and New York. Her multifaceted painting practice employs an array of medium-specific approaches: from abstraction to formlessness, materiality to illusion, conceptualism to the ready-made. She explores painting’s elastic content in relation to its context, its production in relation to its presentation; and pivots between the viewer and the history of painting. For her, throughout history but also in this digital age, the viewer activates and performs the painting, its flatness and its depths. She works with predefined structures – modular canvases that fit comfortably the length of her open arms, triangles, squares, parallelograms, rectangles – that mutate into dynamic new compositions which are then again reshuffled, recombined, performed, stacked, or moved through a vast landscape of fragments. Cardoso’s paintings reveal different dimensions throughout the diverse moments of their production and distribution process. Optical folds are suggested when the works are installed; her configurations play with recto-verso concepts and three-dimensionality; her folded strips present recto and verso simultaneously and become performances that integrate the broader site of painting. Within Ana Cardoso’s inclusive painting corpus, Neo-Concretism and Formalism stand out as open source alphabets that the body inhabits to reformulate former logics and parameters, using structure and the monochrome as vessels for romantic experimentation, site of accidents, questioning, contamination, encounters, and a continuous array of self-reflexive and mediated gestures.
Ana Cardoso received her MA in Fine Art from the Hunter College, New York, in 2006. She has had solo or duo exhibitions at Nuno Centeno, Porto (2019); Parapet Real Humans, St Louis (2018); Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva Museum, Lisbon (2018); Temnikova & Kasela, Tallin (2017); Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Knokke (2016); Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2015); MNAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon (2015); Múrias Centeno, Lisbon (2014); Longhouse Projects, New York (2014); Maisterravalbuena, Madrid (2012); Pedro Cera, Lisbon (2012); Soloway, New York (2011); Conduits, Milan (2011); and Southfirst, New York (2008); among others. Cardoso was included in group exhibitions at Galerias Municipais – Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon (2022); Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (2021); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2020); Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018–19); MAAT Museum, Lisbon (2017); Rachel Uffner, New York (2015); Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Cluj (2012); Prague Biennial 5 (2011); Tate St Ives (2011); The Kitchen, New York (2009); White Flag Projects, Saint Louis (2008); and Culturgest, Lisbon (2007). Her work has been featured in Artforum, Flash Art, Mousse, Modern Painters, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Contemporânea and included in the book Painting Now edited by Suzanne Hudson and published by Thames & Hudson (London) in 2015. She has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2019–20) and was a fellow of Shandaken: Projects, Paint School master class, New York (2018–19).
Ana Cardoso (Lisbon, 1978) lives and works between Lisbon and New York. Her multifaceted painting practice employs an array of medium-specific approaches: from abstraction to formlessness, materiality to illusion, conceptualism to the ready-made. She explores painting’s elastic content in relation to its context, its production in relation to its presentation; and pivots between the viewer and the history of painting. For her, throughout history but also in this digital age, the viewer activates and performs the painting, its flatness and its depths. She works with predefined structures – modular canvases that fit comfortably the length of her open arms, triangles, squares, parallelograms, rectangles – that mutate into dynamic new compositions which are then again reshuffled, recombined, performed, stacked, or moved through a vast landscape of fragments. Cardoso’s paintings reveal different dimensions throughout the diverse moments of their production and distribution process. Optical folds are suggested when the works are installed; her configurations play with recto-verso concepts and three-dimensionality; her folded strips present recto and verso simultaneously and become performances that integrate the broader site of painting. Within Ana Cardoso’s inclusive painting corpus, Neo-Concretism and Formalism stand out as open source alphabets that the body inhabits to reformulate former logics and parameters, using structure and the monochrome as vessels for romantic experimentation, site of accidents, questioning, contamination, encounters, and a continuous array of self-reflexive and mediated gestures.
Ana Cardoso received her MA in Fine Art from the Hunter College, New York, in 2006. She has had solo or duo exhibitions at Nuno Centeno, Porto (2019); Parapet Real Humans, St Louis (2018); Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva Museum, Lisbon (2018); Temnikova & Kasela, Tallin (2017); Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Knokke (2016); Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2015); MNAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon (2015); Múrias Centeno, Lisbon (2014); Longhouse Projects, New York (2014); Maisterravalbuena, Madrid (2012); Pedro Cera, Lisbon (2012); Soloway, New York (2011); Conduits, Milan (2011); and Southfirst, New York (2008); among others. Cardoso was included in group exhibitions at Galerias Municipais – Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon (2022); Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (2021); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2020); Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018–19); MAAT Museum, Lisbon (2017); Rachel Uffner, New York (2015); Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Cluj (2012); Prague Biennial 5 (2011); Tate St Ives (2011); The Kitchen, New York (2009); White Flag Projects, Saint Louis (2008); and Culturgest, Lisbon (2007). Her work has been featured in Artforum, Flash Art, Mousse, Modern Painters, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Contemporânea and included in the book Painting Now edited by Suzanne Hudson and published by Thames & Hudson (London) in 2015. She has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2019–20) and was a fellow of Shandaken: Projects, Paint School master class, New York (2018–19).

- Ana Cardoso, Participante, 2021-2022Acrylic and oil on sewn linen and cotton canvas, 160x160 cm. Ph. João Neves
- Ana Cardoso, Path Finder, 2018-2022Acrylic and oil pastel on linen canvas, 190x78 cm. Ph. João Neves
- Ana Cardoso, Form Reform (Atomic Abyss), 2022Acrylic on sewn linen and cotton, variable dimensions. Ph. João Neves
- Ana Cardoso, Your Identity History Summary Request Has Been Accepted, 2021-2022Acrylic, oil and oil pastel on linen and cotton, 118x118 cm.
Ph. João Neves - Ana Cardoso, 26QNFLU9, 2021Acrylic and graphite on primed linen canvas, 39.4x39.4x56 cm. Ph. João Neves
- Ana Cardoso, Positional Coherence (How A Hidden Dynamic Skeleton Organizes The Underlying Chaotic Motion), 2020-2021Acrylic, pencil and oil pastel on primed and unprimed linen, 160x120 cm. Ph. João Neves
- Ana Cardoso, Hanging-Low, 2021Acrylic and oil on sewn linen canvas, 111.5x111.5 cm.
Ph. João Neves - Ana Cardoso, Mother Tongue, 2020-2021Acrylic, pencil and gouache on linen, 96x160 cm.
Ph. João Neves - Ana Cardoso, Preâmbulo, 2021-2022Acrylic on sewn linen, 120x120 cm. Ph. João Neves
- Ana Cardoso, Sequência Reversível, 2020-2021Acrylic on sewn cotton, linen, burlap, 280x56 cm.
Ph. João Neves - Ana Cardoso, Doc (D-dimensional Data) VI, 2016Acrylic on linen canvas, 106,25x84 cm
- Ana Cardoso, Recto-Verso (Fold), 2017Acrylic on cotton and linen, 222x111 cm
- Ana Cardoso, Lava-Pés, 2016Lava stone (basalt), Epson ultra-chrome inkjet print on silk. Variable dimensions.
- Ana Cardoso, Fold (Lining), 2016Acrylic on sewn linen and cotton canvas 224x112 cm
- Ana Cardoso, Private-States, 2016Acrylic on cotton, 312x156 cm
- Ana Cardoso, Compression Catches Its Shadow (Exclamation), 2014Acrylic on cotton and felt, 383x185 cm

- Ana Cardoso


- Ana Cardoso,
- Athanasios Argianas
Apr 14-16, 2023
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- Ana Cardoso
MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
Mar 29 – Sep 11, 2023
Curated by João Pinharanda

- Tim Etchells
La Triennale, Milan
Mar 30 – Apr 2, 2023
Created by Tim Etchells and Ant Hampton

- Serena Vestrucci
Palazzo Merulana, Rome
Mar 25 – May 21, 2023
Curated by Joanna De Vos and Melania Rossi