Rita Da Costa's Page

Website

http://www.wooloo.org/RitaDaCosta

Relationship status

single

College / University

Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL)

Program

Licenciatureship in Fine Arts - Painting

Graduation

July 20, 2005

Member type

Artist, Collector

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Drawing, Painting, Photography, Sculpture

I am...

Painter.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

- Write poetry and compose songs, photography, since 1989;
- Restaurant;
- Center Cultural of Belém (CCB), ASK ME Exhibition Assistant, 2005-2006


- Other Artistic Experiences:

+ THEATER:

* Participation on the play ''William Shakespear in 97 Minutes'' ( as Ofélia) , Mário Viegas Theatre Studio ( S. Luis Theatre), Lisbon, Portugal , 1997


+MUSIC:

- Playing Piano on:

* Galiano Restaurant, various classical themes

* Original Songs since 1993 and 'sang poetries', with all rights protected in SPA ( Portuguese Society of Authors) and in all world rights protectors societies ( http://www.spautores.pt/)
In IGAC - General Inspection of Cultural activities too (http://wwwigac.ml.pt/);


+POETRY:

Excerto de ' A Balada da Neve', de Sofia de Mello Breyner, Festa de Natal de Colégio Vasco da Gama, 1988.


REPRESENTED IN:

- Ward Nasse Gallery, New York City (USA) - www.wardnasse.org , www.artfacts.net
-Marziart Internationale galerie, Hamburg ( Germany) - www.marziart.com, www.artfacts.net
- Aspectos Art gallery, Sintra, Portugal - www.artfacts.net,
www.wooloo.org/aspectosgallery.


Works showing on: Art gallery S.Mamede ( Lisbon and Oporto), art gallery
Vértice (Lisbon and Cascais ), Portugal



IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIONS:

- On national and international art collections, public and private, international Art Galleries

- On national and international public and private institutional collections, since 2003;

- On National and international Art Galleries of the world, since 2006.


PUBLICATIONS, CATALOGS (SELECTION):

- Rothschild Bank Prize on ' Young painters auction', Palácio do Correio Velho, Lisbon, Portugal, 2003.
- D.Fernando Prize, Sintra, Portugal, 2005.
- Art Diary International 2008/2009, Flash Art, Milan, Italia, 2008.
- Art Diary International 2009/2010, Flash Art, Milan, Italia, 2009
- Art in America , art guide 2008-2009, New York, USA, 2008
( Complete biography at the end of this page)


INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS:

2006- Field Study Member- Australia

2005 - Artist Book in “Art = Start +” File ( Boockstore of contemporary Art ) , Netherlands




Selling in the internet galleries , ART WEB SITES (price upon request):


www.artfacts.com, London and Berlin, UK

www.artprice.com

www.artslant.com, Los Angeles, USA

www.wooloo.org, New Life Berlin, Berlin, Germany

www.artreview.com, London, UK

www.artelista.com, Barcelona, Spain

www.theartistnetwork.org, New York City, USA

www.artsween.com

www.artnowonline.com, Miami, USA





GROUP EXHIBITIONS:


2009:


- '' 'Ray Johnson'', Raven Row Gallery, London, UK

- Galerie du Crabe, Jodoigne, Belgium

- 'Regina di Cuori', Primo Piano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italy

- 'Nostalgic', Trisolini Art gallery, Athens, Ohio, USA

- International Surrealism Festival - Modesto Art Museum, Mistlin Gallery, Modesto, USA

- August Art gallery, London, UK

- APW Gallery, New York Ciy, USA

- Windisch-Hunt Fine Art, Miami, USA

- 'The Mistery og Narciso', Galeria Santa Clara, Coimbra, Portugal

- Marziart Internationale Galerie's, Hamburg, Germany




2008:

- 'Nothing lasts forever...', Galerie Colonialwaren, Berlin, Germany

- Year round salon, Ward Nasse Gallery, New York City, USA

- ' Art in Woodstock festival', The Oxfordshire Museum, Oxfordshire, England, UK

- ' David Zack show', The New Gallery (TNG) , Calgary, Canada

- Art fair International Artexpo Las Vegas , Ward Nasse Gallery booth, Las Vegas, USA

- 1st International Contemporary Art exhibition, Gallery Sílvia Soares, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

- 'Contemporary Art (But)', Itami City Gallery, Itami-Shi, Japan

- 'Post 2 Coast:97411', Bandon Artist Supply's Watermark Gallery , Oregon, USA

- 'GO Pink 08 Art Exhibition', John Humble & Connery Gallery, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, England

- Year Round Salon , Ward Nasse Gallery, New York city , USA

- 'Roteiro de Creación Contemporánea', Ayuntamiento de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

- ' Hungry', Library of Conflans-Ste-Honorine, Paris, France

- ' The Carfree Cities Art Show', Oregon City Hall, USA

- ' My Land, My Paper', Creative Paper Mill Gallery,Tasmania, Australia

- 'ReLocation', Shopping Trolley Gallery, London Borough of Bromley, England

- 'Global Warning', Asylum Gallery, Sacramento, USA

- 'Fetsh', Akademie Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

- 'Art Show', Art Gallery 407, Green Bay, USA

- 'Ausstellung', Schloss Immenstadt, Immenstadt, Germany

- 'Spring Exhibition' , The Rowan Gallery, Flintshire, England

- 'Paper and postage', Moat Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

- 'Neo-surrealismus', Berlin-Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany


2007:

- 'Adults Who Play With Crayons', The Lawrence Heritage State Park Art Gallery, Massachussetts, USA

- 'Postcards from Darwin', Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter Phoenix, England, UK

- 'Peinture Pure', CAM, Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum, Casoria, Naples, Italy

- Bookstore of the Faculty of Ciences and Technology of the University of Lisbon, Costa da Caparica, Portugal


2006:

- “Just Imagine “ , The Deer Trail Studio Postcard Art Show, The Deer Trail Studio, Orlando, USA

- Finalist students of painting FBAUL, Gallery of Galveias Palace, Lisbon, Portugal

- Finalist students of painting FBAUL, Gallery of Paços do Conselho, Aveiro, Portugal

- Finalist students of painting FBAUL, Gallery of Cooperativa da Árvore, Oporto, Portugal

- Finalist students of Drawing FBAUL, National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon, Portugal

- Finalist students of drawing FBAUL, Gallery Municipal Paços do Concelho, Torres Vedras, Portugal


2005:

- Contemporary art fair Hipermercarte on Chiado, Soponata Building, Centro de Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

- D. Fernando Prize, Municipality of Sintra, Portugal

- Exhibition of the Auction of the Finalists Painting of Fine Arts University of Lisbon, Fine Arts University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

- 11st Internacional Exhibition of Fine Arts of Vendas Novas, Municipality of Vendas Novas, Portugal

- 'Landscape', III Bienal of Fine Arts, Salão Paroquial de Sta Catarina da Serra, Fátima, Portugal


2004:

- 'Wunder...', Fine Arts University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

- 'Art is Femenine', Municipal Auditorium, Vendas Novas, Portugal

- 10 th International Exhibition of Fine Arts of Vendas Novas, Municipality of Vendas Novas, Portugal

- 'From proportion until naked', Moinho da Maré, Alhos Vedros, Portugal

- Individual exhibitions


2003:

- Colective Exhibition of Fine Arts , Gallery Matos Ferreira, Lisbon, Portugal

- Rothschild Prize/ 'Young Artists Aution', Palace of Correio Velho, Lisbon, Portugal

- 9th International Exhibition of Fine Arts of Vendas Novas, Municipality of Vendas Novas, Potugal

- Prémio Salúquia às Artes 2003, Gallery of Moura, Moura, Portugal

- Prémio Salúquia às Artes 2003, Photography exhibition, Gallery of the Municipality of Moura, Moura, Portugal


2002:

Individual exhibitions



SOLO EXHIBITIONS:


* Orlando Morais Art Gallery , Ericeira,2004

* “ Colour Acts”, Guilherme Cossoul Society, Lisbon , 2004~

* Painting, Propaganda , Sintra, 2002

* Photography, Propaganda , Sintra,2002



EXHIBITIONS WITH

- Sharon Mutch (UK)
- Tamara Wyndham (USA)
- Susan Nash (USA)
- Sylvia Kein (Canada)
- Ryosuke Cohen ( Japan)
- Ikuo Mori (Japan)
- Jurgen O Olbrich ( Germany)
- Manfred Heinz ( Germany)
- Daniel Daligand ( France)
- Christian Burgaud (France)
- Luc Fierens ( Belgium)
- Antoni Miró ( Spain)
- Jaime Rodríguez (Spain)
- Caterino Davinio (Italia)
- Erich Sundermann ( austria)
- Alexander Charistos ( Austria)
- Piet Franzen ( Holland)
- Rinus Groenendaal ( Holland)
- António Santos (Portugal)
- Ilidio salteiro (Portugal)

(and others, portuguese and international).


* On TV - RTP2 (Radio Television of Portugal):


- 2006 : Exhibition of Fine Arts University of Lisbon students (200/2005 finalists) (with painting on gold deep)

- 2009, Santa Clara gallery, Coimbra, Portugal ( drawing and painting):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph5mSflPZEs&feature=player_embedded


* On Youtube:

2008 - Go Pink 08 Art Exhibition in art gallery of Contemporary Urban Center, Liverpool, UK, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc-aC-RysO8


2009 -Go Pink & Blue 09 Art Exhibition in art gallery of Contemporary Urban Center, Liverpool, UK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0ebFshfec

About my artwork

My work of painting and drawing is linked to poetry and songs I write and compose since 1996.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:


- ''Nós fomos os primeiros alunos dos programas próprios'', Colégio Vasco da Gama, Curso 1986/1990, Turmas A-C-B
com Literaturdesenho 'Natal de 87-88, A visita do Ministro da Educação ao Colégio - (Arquivo RTP - Telejornal, 1987), 1988

- Art Diary International 09.10, the world art directory by Giancarlo Politi, FlashArt, 2008

- Art Diary International 09.10, the world art directory by Giancarlo Politi, FlashArt, 2008

- Internarnional Artexpo Las Vegas ( book of the 2008 Art Fair), Summit Business Media, LLC, Ohio, 2008

- Masters of Today, Petru A. Russu , Masters of Today (MOT) Limited, London, UK, 2008

- 'Arte News'- Spring 2009, Arte News Publications - Editor Paul Cabezas, New York City, USA, 2009

- 'The New Faces of Art' , Artnow International Corporation, Miami, USA, 2008

- 'Art in America', Guide 2008-2009, Brant Art Publications, Inc., New York City, USA

- 'Arte Libre - Arte y Libertad III', José Enrique González Rodriguez, Editorial Comuniter, S.L., Zaragozza, Espanha, 2008

- 'Leilão Jovens Pintores ' ( Prémio Banco Rothshild ), Palácio do Correio Velho - Sociedade de Leilões,
S.A, Lisboa, Portugal, 2003

- Prémio D. Fernando, Galeria da Camara Municipal de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal, 2005

- Trends - Contemporary Artists, Petru A. Russu, Masters of Today (MOT) Limited, London, UK, 2008

- 'Through the Eyes of New Photographers', Artnow International Corporation, Miami, USA, 2009

- Nona Exposição Internacional de Artes Plásticas, Camara Municipal de Vendas Novas, Vendas Novas, Portugal, 2003

- Pony Express Zine Issue #5, Pony Express - National Historic Trail, September 2008

- FUTURENERGIE - Mail Art & Digital Art (14-28 September 2008), Villa Maria, Piazza della Constituzione Quiliano (Savona), 2008

- The Museum of Temporary Art - exhibits 701-800 - The Böhm Collection, Benjamin and Debby Böhm, Tübingen, September 2008

- Regina di Cuori - Queen of the Hearts, Primo Piano LivinGallery Arte Contemporânea, Curatorial text by Dores Sacquegna,
Lecce, Italia, Março 2009

- La Gazette du Crabe, Periodique Mensuel, May 2009 ( Numero spécial), Galerie du Crabe, Jodoigne, Belgica

- I Bienal International del Pequeño Formato - Venezuela, Annijames Rivero, Luis Valera Escarré, Asociación Ateneo
de Aragua Casa de los Arcos, Maracay, Venezuela, Abril 2008

- Internationale Mail-Art-Ausstelung zur Eröffnung, Literaturehaus Allgäu, Schloss Immenstadt, Alemanha, 2008

- Hamburgs Galerien und Museum - Februar-April 2009, Kunst in Hamburg, Hamburgo, Alemanha, 2009

- International Surrealism Festival, Modesto, California, Modesto Art Museum, Modesto, California, USA, Março 2009

Centre of the artworld:

New York, London, Berlin, Beijing, online, another city