Pollyanna Freire

Pollyana Freire (São Paulo, 1982) has lived and worked in Portugal since 2010. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the State University of São Paulo and a master’s degree in Visual Languages from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and completed her training at Ar.Co, where she took the Advanced Course in Fine Arts. She was selected for the EDP New Artists Award in 2015. She unveiled her first public sculpture in 2025, in the village of Sardín, Spain. Among her most recent solo exhibitions are: “Mas Se Acaso,” KubikGallery Porto, 2026; “A Pequena Forma” at Ar.Co Xabregas, 2025; VÃO at MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology, 2023, followed by VANO at the Central Artística de Bueño, Spain, 2024; “Verde-azulado, Azul-amarelado,” at A Moagem - City of Engineering and the Arts, Fundão, 2024. In 2017, she held her first solo exhibition in Portugal, “Escultura,” followed by “Cavalo Verde” in 2020, both at Módulo - Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon. In 2017, she was invited to participate in the 8th edition of the Artemar exhibition in Cascais, curated by Luísa Soares de Oliveira. Among the group exhibitions in which she has participated, the following are noteworthy: “Não sei se posso desejar-lhe um feliz ano,” at the MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, 2022; “Play is a serious matter,” Museum of Communications / Portuguese Communications Foundation, Lisbon, 2019; “Whether little or much, the difference is small,” Módulo – Centro Difusor de Arte, 2014. In 2012, she was selected for the 4th Pilar and Andrés Centenera Jaraba Contemporary Drawing Competition and featured in the exhibition “Me, Myself and I” in Madrid, where she received an honorable mention.