Maia, Sara
Artist Statement
“I am a Portuguese artist, born in Lisbon and currently living between Ilha das Flores (Azores) and Lisbon. My work talks about the Human Being, its relationships, hierarchies, powers, the rational and the irrational, as well as the inconstancy and beauty of Life. I tell stories, often delusional, and create images where symbolism is always present. Stories that convey and translate ideas and feelings. My imagination feeds on everyday records, my childhood, memories, past, present and who knows, an invented future.”
Biography
Sara Maia is a Portuguese artist, born in Lisbon and currently living between Ilha das Flores (Azores) and Lisbon.
Sara completed the Visual Arts course at AR.CO in 1997 and has exhibited regularly since 1992. She has worked with national and international galleries and participated in projects both in Portugal and in countries such as Spain, France, England, Ireland and Italy, among others.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
1999 at Galeria Ratton, in Lisbon;
2004 "Le couer au bord des lévres" - Patrice Trigano Galerie, Paris
2002 Cascais Cultural Center, “Aversion e Riso”
2013 “No bread, eat cakes” at the Museum of the Presidency, as part of the Belém Art Fest.
2015 Culturgest, collective exhibition, “Novas Aquisições Culturgest”.
2013, "Locked in Locked out", MoxieStudios (Imoca), Dublin, Ireland and Open studios / Chateau de Serviérs, Marseille
Sara regularly participates in art fairs, such as “JustMad”, in Madrid (2019 and 2020) and JustLX. She is also present at ARCO, International Art Fair (Cologne) and FAC – Contemporary Art Fair, in Lisbon. She has participated several times at ARCO Madrid and at the Grand Palais in Paris. Sara is also represented at the FIAC in Paris.
Her works are part of important contemporary art collections, namely those of Banco Privado, Berardo Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Mário Sequeira Collection, Juan Bartez Collection (Madrid), Galerie Patrice Trigano (Paris), Ilídio Pinho Foundation, Caixa Geral de Depósitos , Sáragga Leal, Luciano Benettone and P.L.M.J.
In 2000, she was awarded the "Montijo Biennial" Drawing Prize (Lisbon). In 1993, the 3rd Prize for Drawing "Fidelidade" (Lisbon) and the distinction "João Barata Award (Lisbon).
Her most recent exhibitions took place at the Museu de São Roque, a partnership between Galeria Cisterna and Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, and at Palácio Anjos, at the new Pedagogical Museum of Sex, Musex.
