Mónica de Miranda

Mónica de Miranda is a Portuguese-Angolan visual artist, filmmaker and researcher whose interdisciplinary and research-based practice critically looks at the convergence of politics, gender, memory, space and history. On the boundary between documentary and fiction, her work encompasses drawing, installation, photography, film and sound. De Miranda investigates strategies of resistance, geographies of affection, storytelling and ecologies of care. She represented Portugal at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale, the 12th Berlin Biennale, the 12th Dakar Biennale, the 5th Biennale Internationale de l’Art Contemporain de Casablanca, Bamako Encounters – the 13th African Biennale of Photography, the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, BIENALSUR 2021, the Houston FotoFest Biennial 2022 and the PhotoIreland Festival 2023. Solo and group exhibitions of her work have been held at Jeu de Paume, Paris; Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro; Bildmuseet, Umeå; the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; MUCEM, Marseille; AfricaMuseum, Tervuren; MAAT, Lisbon; MUAC, Mexico City; the Barbican Center, London; Autograph, London; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, amongst others.