Professional Name
Alexandra Costa
Name
Alexandra Costa
Research Groups
Category
PhD Students
Position in CEAA
Art and Critical Studies research group
Short Curriculum
Alexandra Costa. Visual artist and researcher. PhD student in Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts in Porto. She has a degree in Visual Arts from ESAP (2015), a postgraduate degree in Contemporary Art (2016) and a master's degree in Visual Arts - Artistic Practices and Research (2022) from the same institution. She works in the area(s) of Humanities with an emphasis on Arts and Critical Studies. In 2024-25, she took part as a guest artist in the curatorial project SINS AND CAPITALS or a certain mist for empty ( )spaces. In 2022-23, she was a CEAA fellow in the FCT-funded programme integrated in the project ON ABSTRACTION [or a certain concern about an object]. In 2021, she was resident artist at PROJECT TOMATO: body, work, poverty, curated by Eduarda Neves. In the same year, she took part in the group exhibition NEM NOITE NEM DIA OU COMO ESTAR DE FRENTE PARA O RELÓGIO.’, as part of Porto's Image Month programme. She has taken part in several group exhibitions, including SEM IMAGO MUNDI. ANTES UM DESVIO ALEATÓRIO, at Planetário do Porto, 2018; A ALGUNS PASSOS COMO SE FOSSE MUITO LONGE, - Palacete Viscondes de Balsemão, Encontros da Imagem, 2017, with the project Estudos sobre a entropia; and PROJECTOS_PROCESSOS_PROPRIEDADES | Espaço Mira - July 2017.