Júlia Ventura

Júlia Ventura (Lisbon, 1952) lives and works in Lisbon and Amsterdam. She graduated in Painting from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts and has a degree in Video Art from Concordia University, Montreal. She exhibited for the first time in 1977 at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes and has since shown her work in various museums, such as: Stedelijk Museum, Foto's uit de Collectie: Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Júlia Ventura, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1991; Two ways of life. Júlia Ventura, CCB, Lisbon, 1997; En la piel de toro, Palacio Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 1997; Júlia Ventura, marcar imprimir expor, 1982-2003, the Serralves Foundation, Porto, 2004; Júlia Ventura , MNAC / Chiado, Lisbon, 2006; Júlia Ventura 1975- 1983, Culturgest, Lisbon. Her work is represented in private and institutional collections, including the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Holland), Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (Switzerland), the Serralves Foundation (Porto) and the PLMJ Foundation (Lisbon).