Margarida Correia

Margarida Correia was born in Lisbon in 1972, where she currently lives and works in Lisbon. She completed a degree in Painting from FBAUL and obtained a Master's degree in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She held her first solo exhibition, Shining, at FBAUL in 1998. More recently, she presented New World at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, at the EDP Foundation, at the São João da Madeira Art Centre, and at Real Art Ways in Hartford (USA); Things at Galeria 111 in Porto and Lisbon, and at AIR Gallery in New York; Junk, Voyeur Project View in Lisbon; Saudade, at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids and at Real Art Ways in Hartford (USA). She has participated in group exhibitions at White Columns, Exit Art, Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Centre for Photography at Woodstock, Dorsky Gallery, ABC No Rio (New York); the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester), the Print Center (Philadelphia), the Photographic Centre Northwest (Seattle), the Toledo Museum of Art, the Vermont Centre for Photography (USA), Gallery 44 (Canada) and the Cokkie Snoei Gallery (Netherlands). She has also exhibited at the EDP Foundation, Belém Cultural Centre, Espaço Novo Banco, ZDB Gallery, and Porto Municipal Gallery in Portugal. She has received grants from the AIR Gallery (New York), the Puffin Foundation (New Jersey), the Joyce Elaine Photography Grant (Texas), the Aaron Siskind Foundation (New York); and the Camões Institute, DGArtes, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso-American Foundation, Portuguese Centre of Photography, and the Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal. Her work is represented in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Camera Club of New York, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Grover Collection at Yale University, Real Art Ways (USA), and in the Américo Marques Collection, EDP Foundation, Novo Banco Collection, PLMJ Foundation, and MUDAS Collection (Portugal).