Ana Cardoso’s Shared Cache is a display of paintings from her ongoing series of modular and re-arrangeable panels.
For the past decade, Cardoso has been questioning the limits of abstraction in painting, and exploring its object as one that is open and multiple. In her work, paintings are made in parts (shaped canvases), and assembled at some point, as if in blind dates. The status of the finished work and the assertion of painting as an ongoing process are brought forward by the artist, as well as her straightforward use of the medium’s materials: she uses and recycles unprimed cotton and linen fabrics that she paints, draws, cuts, sews, stretches and un-stretches, as a way of conveying a widely experimental practice – one that encapsulates mater to challenge it’s perception. Shared Cache, as in a system’s processor, is about latency, potential and their shared economy.
Ana Cardoso (b. 1978, Lisbon) is a portuguese and north-american artist that currently lives and works in Lisbon. Cardoso’s work is centered on a painting practice that dialogues between abstraction, installation and it’s activation in this digital age.
A selection of her exhibitions include: Nuno Centeno, Porto (2023); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2023); Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (2021); Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2019); Klaus Von Nichtssagend, New York (2019); Parapet Real Humans, St Louis (2018); Arpad Szenes — Museu Vieira da Silva, Lisbon (2018); MAAT, Lisbon (2017); Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn (2017); Granpalazzo, Rome (2017); Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Knokke (2016). She was a finalist of the EDP Foundation New Artists Prize, MAAT Museum, Lisbon (2017); and of the Fidelidade Mundial Young Painters Prize, Culturgest, Lisbon (2007).
Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Flash Art, Mousse, Modern Painters, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Contemporânea, Público and Expresso, among other publications.
It was featured in Painting Now edited by Suzanne Hudson, published by Thames & Hudson (2015).
Ana Cardoso received her MFA from Hunter College, CUNY, New York (2006), and a Licenciatura from FBAUL — Fine Arts University of Lisbon (2003).
She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2019-2020) and was a fellow of the Shandaken Projects — Paint School masterclass (2018-2019).