ANAMARY BILBAO (PT/ES)


EDUCATION

Oct. 2015 - 2022 PhD in Artistic Studies - Art and Mediations | FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa and School of Arts - Birkbeck, University of London (Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies) | FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia


AWARDS

2023 / 2024 
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant for studying visual arts abroad

2023
Financial support for Artist Residency, Sirius Art Centre, Ireland

2022 Grant for Artist Residency in the United States, FLAD - Luso-American Development Foundation

2022 Financial support for Artist Residency, 1st edition of the art residency program organized by Galeria Zé Dos Bois - ZDB & CADA

2021
FLAD Drawing Award (shortlisted), FLAD - Luso-American Development Foundation


2019
EDP Foundation's New Artists Award (shortlisted), MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia


2015 / 2019
Artistic Studies Fellowship (PhD), FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia


2018
Visual Arts D. Fernando II Award (XIV Ed.), Mu.Sa / Sintra City Hall



RESIDENCIES

2023 (February) 
Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland

2022 / 2023
AiR 351 (invited artist), PT

2022
ZDB - Galeria Zé dos Bois & CADA, PT

2022
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) (with a grant from FLAD), New York, U.S.A.



SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

2022
FOUR QUARTETS (screening with an essay from the curator and writer Reilly Davidson), Field Projects, New York, U.S.A.

2021 J'ai rêvé d'une fleur qui ne mourrait jamais, Curiosa section / Paris Photo, Curated by Shoair Mavlian, Paris, FR


2021 Blast Effects, Opening ARCO Madrid, Curated by Övül Ö. Durmusoglu and Julia Morandeira, Madrid, ES


2021 J'avale la vague qui me noie le soleil de midi, Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon, PT

2021 Apologia da Floresta e Outras Impressões, Livraria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, PT


2020
From the Ground Up, CAA – Centro de Artes de Águeda, Aveiro, PT


2020
Almost Blue (screening), Curated by Natxo Checa, Novo Negócio / ZDB - Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, PT


2019
Lighted by a Searing Light, Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon, PT


2018
O último brilho da estrela que morre [The last gleam of a dying star], Uma Lulik_ Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, PT


2014
Fallacious memory, Caroline Pàges Gallery, Lisbon, PT


2013
Presente passado (Past present), Galeria Boavista (Galerias Municipais - EGEAC), Lisbon, PT



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Open Studios & Screenings, AiR 351 Residency, PT 

2023
Ver no Escuro / See in the Dark, Curated by Ana Anacleto, Centro de Artes de Águeda, PT

2023
A prática do infinito pela leitura, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, PT

2023
Visual AIDS, Ortuzar Projects, New York, U.S.A.

2023 Contemporary Art in the City Council Collection / C.M.S, MU.SA, Sintra, PT

2022
Photo Basel, Basel, CH

2022
ISCP Spring Open Studios, New York, U.S.A.

2022
And Then Night, Curated by Aurélien Le Genissel, Rodríguez Gallery, Poland

2022
AiR 351 Open Studios, Cascais, PT


2022
Depois do banquete, Teatro Thalia, Lisbon, PT

2021
Painting: observation field (II), Curated by João Pinharanda, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT

2021
Santander Consumer Collection, Santander Consumer, Lisbon, PT

2021
The 10 finalists of FLAD Drawing Award, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, PT

2021
Entre Paredes: Futuros. Obras da Coleção António Cachola, Curated by Sara Antónia Matos, Paços - Galeria Municipal de Torres Vedras, PT

2021 No Reino das Nuvens, Curated by Vitor dos Reis, MU.SA - Museu das Artes de Sintra, PT

2020
FPM #2, Curated by João Silvério, PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, PT


2020
Through Windows, Curated by Miguel Mesquita, Uma Lulik__, Lisbon, PT


2019
FOCUS, Curated by João Ribas, Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, CAN


2019
EDP Foundation's New Artists Award, Curated by Inês Grosso, João Silvério e Sara Antónia Matos, MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, PT


2019
Deep deep down, far far in (and out), Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon, PT


2019
Tomar a verdade, #1 para 4, Uma Lulik__ Contemporary Gallery, Lisbon, PT


2019
Ana Vidigal and the generation of the 20s in painting and drawing (org. Ana Vidigal and Umbigo; dir. Elsa Garcia), Lisbon, PT


2018
A Guerra como Modo de Ver, Curated by Ana C. Cachola, MACE - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, PT


2018
Visual Arts Award D. Fernando II ( XIV Ed.), Câmara Municipal de Sintra, Sintra, PT


2018
AnaMary Bilbao, António Bolota, Luisa Jacinto, Paulo Lisboa (open studio), Lisbon, PT


2018
Arte em São Bento - Coleção António Cachola, Curated by João Pinharanda, Palácio de São Bento (Prime minister's official residence), Lisbon, PT


2017
O Tempo inscrito. Memória, Hiato e Projecção - Works from Figueiredo Ribeiro Contemporary Art Collection, Curated by Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues, quARTel, Abrantes, PT


2015
30 Years 30 Artists (7 Ed., org. AMI Foundation), Porto, PT


2014
On Drawing II, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT


2014
Jovens Criadores, Casa do Terrítório, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Braga, PT


2014
Yazid Oulab + AnaMary Bilbao, Caroline Pàges Gallery, Lisbon, PT


2014
Works of António Cachola Collection, MACE - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas, PT


2014
Correspondència Lisboa-Barcelona, Carpe Diem - Arte e Pesquisa and Espai Mallorca Barcelona, Barcelona, ES


2014
Coisa Mental, Centro de Ciência do Café, Campo Maior, PT



OTHER PROJECTS

2022
il. for Ghosts [Crowds], Lo Squaderno. Explorations in Space and Society journal, nº62, IT

2022
 il. for O impossível; Manet de Georges Bataille / Fulgor quotidiano; Edições Sr. Teste, PT


2022
Men and trees long for fire and call for the rain, visual essay for Contemporânea magazine #6 - Photography (Jan. 2022), PT

2021
 Ao domicílio, a project with a book edition which brings together original works from 40 selected artists, org. by Ana Pérez-Quiroga, with the support of Lisbon City Hall / Fes – Cultura (a fund for cultural projects), PT


2019
encoder decoder, visual essay (fold-out) for Contemporânea magazine # 4 - Moving Image (Dec. 2019), PT


2016
Antigenealogical image: without beginning nor ending, visual essay for Wrong Wrong (platform for contemporary artistic practice), PT



PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS


António Cachola / MACE

Arte Contemporânea Figueiredo Ribeiro / quARTel


SILD - Julião Sarmento


Ulla Wiegand and Christoph Sebastian Collection


Fundação Leal Rios


Fundação PLMJ


C.M.S. - Câmara Municipal de Sintra / MU.SA


Fundação EDP / MAAT


Maria e Armando Cabral


Santander Totta Consumer

Marin Gaspar

Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection (Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado - CACE)


Other private collections: PT, ES, FR, UK, DE, RU, BR, CAN, U.S.A.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023
Anacleto, Ana, Baptista, Alexandre (org.), CCA, O Desenho como Pensamento (exhibition catalog), Águeda: CCA / CMA.

2023
Quignard, Pascal, Teste, Sr. (ed./dir.), O Leitor / A Prática do Desenho pela Leitura, Lisbon: Fulgor Quotidiano.

2022
Pavoni, Andrea (ed.); Vanolo, Alberto (ed.), Bilbao, AnaMary (il.), Ghosts [Crowds], Lo Squaderno. Explorations in Space and Society Journal, nº62.

2022
Bilbao, AnaMary, Brás, Celina (dir.), Neves, Eduarda, «Men and trees long for fire and call for the rain» (visual essay), in Brás, Celina (dir.), Contemporânea #6 - Photography, Lisbon: Making Art Happen.

2022
Bataille, Geoges, O impossível. Manet (translation by Teresa Projeto, il. by AnaMary Bilbao) (1st Ed.), in Fulgor quotidiano #37, Lisbon: Edições Sr. Teste.

2021
Matos, Sara Antónia, Between Walls: Futures. Works on António Cachola Collection, Torres Vedras: Paços - Galeria Municipal de Torres Vedras, D.L.: 491804/21.


2021
Oliveira, Luísa Soares de (August, 2021), «Impuro Azul», in Ípsilon / Público, p. 27.

2021
Espiridião, Marta, «The impermanent trace of memory», Brás, Celina (dir), Contemporânea #5 Desenho / Drawing, Lisbon: Making Art Happen, pp. 182-185.

2021
Marmeleira, José (Junho, 2021), Nas imagens de AnaMary Bilbao, o azul nunca é o mesmo (In AnaMary Bilbao's images the blue is never the same), in Brás, Celina, Contemporânea, Ed. 04-05-06.


2021
Sara & André (2021), Inquérito a 471 artistas, Contemporânea (special edition), ISBN 978-989-53046-0-8.


2020
Baptista, Alexandre; Matos, Sara Antónia; Silvério, João (2020), Desenho como pensamento [Drawing as thought] (catalogue from the cycle of exhibitions untitled "Drawing as thought" organized by Alexandre Baptista), Aveiro: CAA – Centro de Artes de Águeda / Câmara Municipal de Aveiro.


2020
Silvério, João, Mendes, Patrícia Dias (2020), FPM #2. Obras da Coleção da Fundação PLMJ / Works from the collection of the PLMJ Foundation (translation by Simon Gillibrand), Lisboa: Fundação PLMJ, 108 p., ISBN: 978-989-8487-27-8.


2020
Marmeleira, José (Sep. 2020), Through Windows, in Brás, Celina (dir.),Contemporânea, Ed. 07-08-09.


2020
Bilbao, AnaMary, Sara & André (June 2020), Inquérito a 471 Artistas / Inquiry to 471 artists, in Brás, Celina (dir.), Contemporânea.


2020
AA.VV. (Jan. 2020), Art at São Bento. Contemporary collections at the Prime Minister's official residence: Serralves, António Cachola, Norlinda and José Lima (bilingual edition, PT/EN), Lisbon: INCM, 192 p., ISBN: 978-972-27-2811-9.


2019
Bilbao, AnaMary (Dec. 2019), «encoder decoder» (visual essay | fold-out), in Brás, Celina (dir.), Contemporânea #4 - Imagem em Movimento / Moving Image, Lisbon: Making Art Happen, ISBN: 978-989-33-0204-0.


2019
Grosso, Inês, Matos, Sara Antónia, Silvério, João (2019), Prémio Novos Artistas Fundação EDP 2019. Isabel Madureira Andrade, AnaMary Bilbao, Dealmeida Esilva, Mónica de Miranda, Henrique Pavão, Diana Policarpo (translated by Christopher Foster), Lisboa: MAAT; Fundação EDP, ISBN 978-972-8909-81-9, pp. 29-39.


2019
Vidigal, Ana, Bilbao, AnaMary (July 2019), «Dossier Affinities: AnaMary Bilbao», in Garcia, Elsa (dir.), Umbigo, 69, Lisbon: Umbigo Edições, ISSN: 1645-4804, pp. 42-43.


2019
Espiridião, Marta (Jan. 2019), «O (vi)ver-se para lá da morte» in Brás, Celina (dir.), Contemporânea, Ed. 01-02.


2019
Pina, José P. (Jan. 2019), «O triunfo da arte é lembrar, mesmo apagando» [«The triumph of art is to remember, even when erasing»], in Garcia, Elsa (dir.), Umbigo, Lisbon: Edições Umbigo.


2018
Fazenda, Maria do Mar (ed.), Careaga, Mónica Álvarez (ed.) (2018), «Desenho Português Contemporâneo» in Papeleo. Cuadernos Drawing Room, Madrid; Lisbon: Drawing Room.


2017
Rodrigues, Sérgio Fazenda; Ribeiro, Fernando Figueiredo (2017), O Tempo Inscrito – Memória, Hiato e Projeção (translation by José Gabriel Flores) (exh. cat.), Abrantes: CMA; Coleção Figueiredo Ribeiro, ISBN 978-972-9133-59-6.


2016
Jürgens, Sandra Vieira (dir.), Bilbao, AnaMary (2016), «Antigenealogical image: without beginning nor ending» (visual essay) in Wrong Wrong (platform for contemporary artistic practice), ISSN 2183-5527.


2015
Sardo, Delfim; Sarmento, Julião (2015), Afinidades Electivas. Julião Sarmento coleccionador, Lisbon: Fundação Carmona e Costa.


2015
Cachola, Ana C. (2015), Representações da identidade cultural portuguesa na arte contemporânea: pós-imagens entre o pedagógico e performativo, Lisbon: FCH-UCP.


2014
Synek, Manuela (2014), «Em torno das linhas do desenho num jogo entre o exercício do ver e do ler» (about the group show On Drawing II at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art; artists: Julião Sarmento, João Onofre e Rui Toscano, Matt Mullican, Erwin Wurm, Lawrence Weiner, Jim Shaw e AnaMary Bilbao) in Garcia, Elsa (dir.), Umbigo, Lisbon: Edições Umbigo.


2014
Gouveia, Paulo, coord. (2014), Jovens Criadores’14, Lisbon: Clube Português de Artes e Ideias; Secretaria de Estado da Juventude e do Desporto.


2014
Cachola, Ana C. (2014), “Coisa Mental”. Obras da Colecção António Cachola, Campo Maior: Centro de Ciência do Café.


2014
Vidal, Carlos (Oct. 16, 2014), «Desenho e Memória» in Sábado, 546, Lisbon, p.46.

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