Cristina Ataíde lives and works in Lisbon. She is graduated in fine arts at Lisbon Fine Art School (Sculpture) and she attended Design Studies in the same art school. Head of the Sculpture and Design’s department in MadeIn, a Portuguese marble production company, between 1987 and 1996, working there with artists as Anish Kapoor, Michelangelo Pistolleto, Keit Sonnier, Matt Mullican. Invited teacher in Lusofona University, Lisbon between 1997 a 2012.
Represented in the following collections as: CAM Collection, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Culturgest, Caixa Geral de Depósitos Collection, Lisbon; Novo Banco, Collection, Lisbon; António Cachola Collection, Elvas; Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon; City Museum Collection, Lisbon; Unión Fenosa Museum, La Coruña (ES); Afro Brasilien Museum Collection, São Paulo; Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Essaouira Collection, Maroc; Maison de l’Art Contemporain Asilah Collection, Maroc.
Artistic Residency: Wave Hill’s 2014 Winter Workspace Workshop: Drawing through Landscape, Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, New York; Maison d’ Art Contemporain Asilah |MA…
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2017- VOLTAR DE VEZ EM QUANDO / BACK from time to time, Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon; ORIENTIEREN with Bragdon, Petrou and Jansen, Kunsttempel, Kassel |DE.
2016- UNDER ALL OF THIS, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisboa; ET PUIS LE CHEMIN com Isabelle Dubrul, Tour Bidouane, Saint Malo|FR; ATÉ AO ABRAÇO, Galeria Virgilio, São Paulo | BR; NA PALMA DA MÃO, Galeria Ybakatu, Curitiba | BR; 2015- Ser Linha Ser/ Line Being Line , Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon; PERCURSOS EM DERIVA, Paço das Artes, São Paulo |BR; 2014- Wave Hill Winter Workspace Program, Bronx, New York; VERFLIXT UND ZUGENAHT, der fall Wittenberg, Veritas Factory, Wittenberg (GR), PE 15, An Integrated Journey with Art, Recife (BR), ESPERANDO QUE NIEVE, Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Madrid (ES); 2013 – DESLOCAMENTO(S), with Isaque Pinheiro, Cultural Center Fiep, Curitiba, Brazil; 2012- ITINERÁRIO DA MENTE PARA A LUZ (d’aprés São Boaventura) with José Rufino (BR), S. Bento Monastery, São Paulo, Brazil; LA MONTAÑA MÁGICA/ DER ZAUBERBERG, Magda Bellotti Gallery, Madrid; LAR, DOCE LAR…/ Home Swith Home… site-specific, Carpe Diem, Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon
