CURRICULUM VITAE
Selected Activities · Curatorial Projects · Residencies · Publications · Awards & Grants · Professional Experience · Education
01 — SELECTED ACTIVITIES / ACTIVIDADES SELECCIONADAS
2026
The Pencil of Nature
Invited artist. Curated by Elina Heikka. Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (SNBA), Lisbon. November 2026.
ERRAR — Conferência sobre Pesquisa Artística em Fotografia
Keynote speaker. Universidade Lusófona. Organised by Fo:RCE and Procur.Arte, Lisbon. October 2026.
Anozero — Bienal de Coimbra / Programa Convergentes
EMARANHADOS: Humanos e plantas em presença (Exercícios de atenção com fotografias encontradas). Coimbra. July 2026.
Experimental Photo Festival
Solar Cyanotypes in Post-Industrial Ecologies / Hybrid Herbarium: Cyanotype & AI Cartographies. Barcelona. July 2026.
Ecologias de Cura e do Bem Viver: Plantas, Imagem e Processos Participativos de Pesquisa em Saúde
Laboratório Audiovisual do CRIA / ISCTE, Lisbon. June 2026.
Cadavre Exquis — Fotografar em Continuidade
Da Lenta Travessia das Raízes. Publication / artist’s book contribution. MUDE — Museu do Design, Lisbon. May 2026.
HERB FEST 2026 — O Solo é Mãe, as Plantas são Família
Herbário Metabólico / Poções (plantas, imagem e ecologias de cura). Montado Freixo do Meio, Montemor-o-Novo. May 2026.
2025
Wanderings in Space and Time / Andamentos no espaço e no tempo
MiraForum, Porto. September 2025.
Isto não é um herbário!
Alberg'art Gallery, Porto. September 2025.
One Green Eye, the Other Blue — Herbarium of the Anthropocene
Exhibition and publication. MiraForum, Porto. March 2025.
2024
Follow Y/Our River (Books of Water)
Totally Thames Festival and Copeland Gallery, London. 2024.
‘paula’ & Work: A Document on the Machinic Enslavement in Academic Capitalism 2023–24
Borough Road Gallery, London. 2024.
Publishing as Watery Strategy — The Work of paula roush and msdm publications
IMAGO Gallery, Lisbon. 2024.
Places of Unrest and Restoration
The Silver Record Festival, Platform Gallery, Vaasa. 2024.
The Library of Artistic Print on Demand
German National Library, Leipzig, and Museum VILLA STUCK, Munich. 2024.
2023
A Title That Brings Us Together
msdm House–Studio–Gallery, Woolwich, London. 2023.
Follow Y/Our River: Lea-minal Edges
Borough Road Gallery, London. May 2023.
Liquid Memory
Water Museum, Lisbon. 2023.
2022
Liquid Memories ~ to read with water
Borough Road Gallery, London. 2022.
Museums Without Walls
Isabel Bader Centre, Kingston, Canada. 2022.
BOX. UNBOX
Godsbanen Arts Centre, Aarhus, Denmark. 2022.
2021
Memória Líquida
Casa da Imagem, Vila Nova de Gaia. 2021.
Trabalhos Líquidos & Jerricans
Cozinha Gallery, Porto. 2021.
SELECTED EARLIER ACTIVITIES
Paintball Field
Barreiro Photography Month, The Red Gallery, Barreiro. 2019.
Infinite Multiple
Carroll / Fletcher and Arebyte Galleries, London. 2017–18.
UNBOUND
Herbert Read Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury. 2017.
Torn, Folded, Curled
Makan Project Space, Beirut. 2015.
Queer Paper Gardens
Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon. 2013.
Dreaming Through — On & Into the Exotic
Contemporary Arts and Learning, London. 2013.
02 — CURATORIAL PROJECTS / PROJECTOS CURATORIAIS
The Book Dispersed: Publishing as a Relational Experience
Casa das Artes + Sput&Nik The Window, Porto. 2017.
ə/uh/-books — Project Space for Material Publishing
London South Bank University, London. 2016–18.
Faz Tu Mesmx — Arte por Instrução / DIY: Art by Instruction
Sput&Nik The Window Gallery, Porto. 2016.
Hetero q.b.
International video programme. Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon. 2013.
Off the s{h}elf: The Self and Subjectivity in the Artist’s Book
Stockwell Studios, London, 2012
New Territories / Novos Territórios
Pavilhão 28, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon. 2009.
Mundos Locais / Local Worlds
Centro Cultural de Lagos. 2008.
Welcome Goodbye Adeus Obrigada — Journeys, Dislocations and Imaginary Nations
Blue Elephant Theatre & Little Portugal, London. 2006.
POSTSCRIPT (Part One): Portuguese Live Art in the Age of Scripted Reality
[SPACE], London. 2004.
03 — RESIDENCIES / RESIDÊNCIAS
2025
Chão Terra Pessoas
Mira Galerias, Porto, Portugal.
2015
Photobook Publishing from the Archives
Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon.
2013
Xistorias / Schistories
Commissioned residency and participatory project, Góis Schist Villages, Portugal. Commissioned and funded by ADXTUR; supported by Lousitânea, Góis City Council and ESEC. With Eunice Gonçalves Duarte, Mário Montez and paula roush. May–November 2013.
2013
Memory of Stones
Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium.
04 — SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / PUBLICAÇÕES SELECCIONADAS
2025
One Green Eye, the Other Blue: Herbarium of the Anthropocene. Monograph. msdm publications. ISBN 978-1-7396192-7-5.
2023
Wide Load [Bred Last]: A House Moved. Monograph. msdm publications. ISBN 978-1-7391803-1-7.
Follow Y/Our River: Lea-minal Edges — Prompts for Transitory States of Being. Artist’s book. msdm publications. ISBN 978-1-7390996-4-0.
Follow Y/Our River: A Manual for Deep Mapping in the Lower Lea Valley. Educational manual. msdm publications. ISBN 978-1-7390996-5-7.
2022
Liquid Memories ~ to read with water. Artist’s book. msdm publications. ISBN 978-0-9553793-5-2.
Water Prints. msdm publications. ISBN 9781739099602.
2020
Photobook Is / Did You Mean Photo Book Is. Photobook. ISBN 9798669289034.
05 — AWARDS & GRANTS / PRÉMIOS E APOIOS
AWARDS & SELECTIONS
Nothing To Undo — First Prize, Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize.
Nothing To Undo — shortlisted, Kassel Fotobook Festival.
Bus-Spotting + A Story — shortlisted, Photo-Text Award, Rencontres d’Arles.
Fundació Mies van der Rohe — Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture.
GRANTS & RESEARCH SUPPORT
Camões — Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua / Embassy of Portugal in Denmark — support for BOX. UNBOX, Godsbanen, Aarhus.
Erasmus Grant — collaboration with Victoria Browne, Publishing Studio / KHiO Oslo Art Academy.
School of Arts & Creative Industries Research Grant — research towards monograph on photobook publishing / Arab Image Foundation.
Centre for Media & Culture Research, LSBU — research grant for printmaking technologies and photobook publishing, Thames Barrier Print Studio.
ADXISTUR — support for Xistorias, Góis Schist Villages.
Gulbenkian UK / Instituto Camões — support for Welcome Goodbye Adeus Obrigada.
[SPACE] — commission for Bowville, London.
Arts Council England, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Southwark Council, South East London Community Foundation and Community Renewal Unit — support for SOS:OK Emergency Biscuit, developed with Coleman Project Space, London.
06 — PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004–present
Founder & Lead Artist — msdm (mobile strategies of display & mediation)
Artistic research, publishing and curatorial platform.
2006–2025
Senior Lecturer — School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University
Photography, artistic research, publishing and participatory practice.
07 — EDUCATION / FORMAÇÃO
2001
Postgraduate studies in Art and Artistic Intervention in Urban Contexts, Bauhaus Kolleg, Dessau — Event City.
Master’s degree — Creative Arts Therapies
Emporia State University, USA. Fulbright Research Award.
BA — Social Psychology
University of Lisbon.
COMMISSIONS / SELECTED PROJECTS
Honorary PhD as an Art Work — commission by South London Gallery and Art Fund.
Portuguese — native · English — fluent · French — proficient