Alexandra do Carmo

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  Academic Training

Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, 2004/2005.
Masters of Fine Arts Degree, Pratt Institute, New York, 2003.
Project year in Drawing, AR.CO, Center of Art and Visual Communication Lisbon, 1999.
Advanced Course in Fine Arts, AR.CO Lisbon,1998.

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

Office/Commercial, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon 2008.
O Outro Eco, with the collaboration of Abinadi Meza, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon, 2006.
A Willow (Or without Godot), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2006.
Wild M5 Sala do Veado, National Natural History Museum, Lisbon, 2004.
Micron 005, Lugar Comum-Fábrica da Pólvora, Barcarena, Portugal 2004.
Uma Sala com Repetição de Tudo, Modulo Gallery Lisbon, 2003.

Group Exhibitions (selection)
Collecting The New: Recent Aquisitions to the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2010.
1 Século, 10 Lápis, 100 Desenhos: Viarco Express, Museu da Presidência da República, Lisbon, 2009.
Financial District
, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, 2009.
Lá Fora, Electricity Museum, Lisbon,2009.
I Certamen de Dibujo Contemporaneo Pilar Y Andres Centenera Jaraba, Guadalajara, Spain, 2008.
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2006.
The Steam Shop (or The Painter’s Studio), Lugar Comum, Barcarena, Portugal 2006.
Space, Place & Interface, LiveBox Gallery at Ravenswood, Chicago, 2006.
E=mc2, Museum of Science and Technology, Coimbra, Portugal 2005.
Bread Matters III, West Cork Arts Center, Cork, 2005.
Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program Exhibition, New York, 2005
Draw, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005.
Paper and Process, Art Projects International, New York, 2004.
New Work Artists in Residence, Location One, New York, 2004.
GO, Liquidacion-Total, Madrid, 2003.
Expect the World moinonplus, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2002.
Symposium 2002 Art Values: Public and Private, Pratt Institute, (selections; Janet Koplos) New York.
Amadeu de Sousa Cardoso- Third Prize, City Museum, Amarante, Portugal 2002.
Desenho, Mitra Gallery, Lisbon, 2000.

Residencies/Workshops

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2006
Location One, New York, 2004
Triangle Artist’s Workshop, New York, 2004

Grants (selection)

2006: Gulbenkian Foundation and Institute of the Arts.
2004: Luso-American Foundation and Institute of the Arts.
2001-2003: Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation.

Publications (selection)

David Barro, 2008, “Las fissuras perceptivas de Alexandra do Carmo”, Office/Commercial, Dardo ds/ Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Santiago de Compostela/Lisboa, 2008.
Jonathan Goodman, 2004, Time’s Archeologist ,2007--The Monkeys Gaze, i.e. in www.anamnese.pt. Ilidio Pinho Foundation.
Bruno Marques, 2006, The Steam Shop (or the painter's studio)' From the expansion of the Studio to an anthropological view of the site’ in:http://www.interfaceartecontemporanea.org/ensaios_criticos.htm
Prospective Memory for an artist studio in Brooklyn in Office/Commercial catalogue,Dardo ds/ Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Santiago de Compostela/Lisboa, 2008.
Robert Knafo, 2004, On the Paleontology-Democracy Continuum,
http://www.studiovisit.net, 2005--Dinosaur Drawings i.e. in www.anamnese.pt.

Collections (selection)

Irish Museum of Modern Art
Ilidio Pinho Foundation