Soraya Vasconcelos (b. 1977) artist, teacher, researcher; Holding a degree in Painting (2002, College of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon), she also studied Photography and Philosophy and has a PHD in Arts (2014, University of Algarve). Full-time researcher at ICNOVA (2019-22), she teaches in the Photography course at Universidade Lusófona.
Her art practice includes photography, drawing and printmaking, she produces publications and installations. In 2005 she was selected for the 1st Photography Course of the Gulbenkian Criativity and Artistic Creation Programme, from which emerged the photographers’ collective DOZE, with whom she developed work in the area of photography and publishing, namely the project Paisagem e Povoamento [Landscape and Settlement]. She participates in Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema 2021: Survivance; in the exhibition Imagens com Vida Própria [Images with a Life of their Own], curated by Sandra Vieira Jurgens (Biennial of Photography of Vila Franca de Xira – BF18); Vernadsky Station, a collective and interdisciplinary project, proposed together with Susana Gaudêncio and held in Sines (2017), with the support of the Centro Cultural Emmérico Nunes, C.M.Sines, DGArtes and F.C. Gulbenkian, which resulted in exhibitions, a website and a book; the collective exhibition “O Olho”, at Ler Devagar – Campo Grande 111 (2015); and the Residency Network – Experimentation, Art, Science and Technology (2007).
