Ana Jotta | |
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Born | 1946 |
Nationality | Portuguese |
Education | Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (ESBAL), Lisbon; La Cambre, Brussels |
Known for | Visual art, installation |
Awards | Grande Prémio EDP/Arte 2013 [1] |
Ana Jotta is a Portuguese artist born in 1946 [2] in Lisbon.
Ana Jotta studied art at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa ( Lisbon School of Fine Arts) and at La Cambre in Brussels. [3] From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema and theatre. She became more focused on visual arts since the 1980s. [4]
Jotta explores all artistic fields: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, photography. She also works with craft techniques like sewing, embroidery and pottery. [5] Her projects are extremely varied, she invents new and unexpected forms for each of her exhibitions. In 2018, she co-curated with Ricardo Valentim "from A to C", [6] an exhibition of works by Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes at Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
Jotta has had two major career retrospectives: "Rua Ana Jotta" [7] at Museu Serralves ( Porto, 2005) [8] and "A Conclusão da Precedente" at Culturgest ( Lisboa, 2014). [9]