Mónica de Miranda’s (b. 1976, Portugal) multidisciplinary practice examines the complex social, political and poetic relationships between bodies, territories, history and the earth. Spanning drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and film, de Miranda works on the boundaries between documentary and fiction. Her protagonists stand on frontiers, between self and other, past and present, in an oeuvre that fabulates narratives of resistance informed by embodied research into decolonial thought, practice and ecologies of care.
de Miranda’s work has been presented at major international biennales, including 16th Sharjah Biennial (2025), 60th Venice Biennale (2024), Lagos Biennale (2024), Bamako Encounters – 13th African Biennale of Photography (2023), 5th Biennale Internationale de l’Art Contemporain de Casablanca (2022), 12th Berlin Biennale (2022), BIENALSUR 2021 (2021), 6th Lubumbashi Biennale (2019), 12th Dakar Biennale (2016), and 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (2014) among others.
Solo and group exhibitions have taken place at Jeau de Paume, Paris; The Art Institure of Chicago, Chicago; Blanton Museum of arts, Austin; CAIXA Cultural, Rio de Janeiro; Bildmuseet, Umeå; MACBA,Barcelona; Gulbenkian, Lisbon; MUCEM, Marseille; AfricaMuseum, Tervuren; MAAT, Lisbon; MUAC, Mexico City; Barbican, London; Autograph, London; Frac pays de la Loire, Nantes; Uppsala Museum, Sweden; MNAC, Lisbon; Camões Cultural Institute, Luanda, among others.
In 2023, she won the Idealista Contemporary Art Prize and became a recipient of the Open Society Arts Fellowship – Art, Land and Public Memory, as well as the Grant Exposed Award – Torino Photo Festival. De Miranda’s work is part of numerous international collections, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London, MNAC – Nacional Museum of Contemporary Art, MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon Municipal Archive, all Lisbon, and the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah.