Lígia Fernandes

Lígia Fernandes is a Portuguese visual artist and curator based in Portugal, focused on the intersection between visual arts, socially engaged art and community economies. In her work she uses drawing and painting as tools to explore cultural universes, ethnographies and identities, and organizing as a means to create space for sharing, collaboration and creation.

Her practice is often the result of site-specific research and aims to address the connection with its collective identity. There is, in all her work, a permanent awareness of a Portuguese point of view. Currently she is interested in the role of love in relational art and community economies.

She holds and MA in Painting and BA in Drawing from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, and also a BS and MS in Economics from UCP-FCEE. She has been dedicated to drawing and painting since 2014, having participated in several exhibitions, residencies and exchange programs in Portugal, Hungary, Montenegro, Latvia and Estonia. Since 2020 she also co-created several ongoing art and community projects such as Panorama, Lisbon Drawing Club, Artists Anonymous, Art&Craft Refúgio and Mais Uno +1. Currently, she is enrolled in the master’s “Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art” at HDK-Valand, Academy of Art and Design at University of Gothenburg.

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