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Ana Cardoso

Born in 1978 (Lisbon, Portugal). Lives and works in New York, United States of America.

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Photo credits: Courtesy of the artist

Ana Cardoso plays with the dual presence of paintings as objects and signs to create an architectural space in which literally free-floating references collide.

Themes of the paintings include translucent fabric with different warp and weft, 1970s social theory book covers, and voracious pop cultural and art historical quotations including Fragonard’s The Swing. Michel Majerus, Heimo Zobernig, and Cosima von Bonin might be artists whose approaches to the legacy of painting make them relevant to Cardoso’s approach to the problem of making art, which Cardoso suggests is a kind of performance. Paris (2011). He had solo shows as Mar Morto Provisório, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien (2013); Crisis doesn’t matter if you love me, Nuno Centeno, Porto (2012); Plantation, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2012).

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Exhibitions

Ana Cardoso

Shared Cache
13 May – 10 June, 2023
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Ana Cardoso

From The Pixel To The Cloud
21 September – 23 October, 2019
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Turn around. Um olhar sobre a Coleção de Arte Fundação EDP at MAAT

11 February, 2026 – 25 January, 2027
The MAAT exhibition is showing artworks from Ana Cardoso, Ana Hatherly, José Pedro Croft and Maria Capelo
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