Maria Manuela Lopes




Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • University for the Creative Arts

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2022

    Maria Manuela Lopes is a visual artist whose practice is transdisciplinary, investigating relations of memory and iden-tity informed by the biological sciences and medical research; her work appears in a varied format within the visual arts re-sulting in multimedia installations, drawings and performances.

    She studied sculpture at FBA-UP and MA at Goldsmiths Col-lege in London. She has a Doctorate in Fine Arts and New Media at the University of Brighton and UCA-Farnham in the UK. She did a Postdoc Art Research Project at the University of Aveiro and Porto – i3S Institute of Research and Innovation in Health. Lopes is Visual Arts Adjunct Professor at ESE – Institute Politech of Porto IPP and a researcher at i3S as co-responsible for the Cultural Outreach Art/Science interface.

    Maria Manuela Lopes has curated several international exhibitions and her work has been shown nationally and internationally. She is also co-founder and Deputy Director of Portu-guese artistic residency programs: Ectopia – Laboratory of Artistic Experimentation and Cultivamos Cultura.

    ISEA2014

    Maria Manuela Lopes,  D+ Instituto de Investigação en Design media e Cultura Universidade de Aveiro, PT

    ISEA2011

    Maria Manuela Lopes & University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK and Ectopia, Lisboa, Portugal


Last Known Location:


  • Farnham, United Kingdom

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