Ânia Pais

Born on the S. Miguel, Azores island, Ânia graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, and is currently completing a Master in Painting at the same institution.
 
Beyond academia, and despite a multi-faceted approach to art and artistic mediums, Ânia Pais often finds her most powerful artistic expression through sculpture, a medium where she continues to evolve an already conceptually and aesthetically advanced language, through an expansive exploration of textiles.
 
Dissatisfied with bi-dimensional surfaces, Ânia battles with the partial destruction of textiles as a process that allows her to transform an apparently inert material, into fluid organisms that come to ethereally inhabit the spaces where they are installed. The refined plasticity that characterizes Ânia’s work is able to conjure light, strength, movement and happenstance, in a play where the spectator becomes participant as they move in and around her oeuvre.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021, In Perpetuum, Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia de Lisboa
2020, Paradox, Galeria António Lopes, Covilhã
2020, Fez-se Noite, Municipal Photographic Archive, Lisbon

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021, Inactivity II, BAGKEN, (Omonoias Square), Grécia
2021, Lx Lapa, Lisbon
2021, About Painting, Nacional Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon
2021, Young Creators Exhibition, ISGA, Vila Nova de Gaia
2021, The Landscape Inside, Wool Museum, Covilhã
2020, Com(post): Cultivating Culture, Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon University
2020, Contraverse: Journeys between the Studio and the Landscape, Virtual Exhibition
2020, Space Reflections Part I and II, Lisbon
2019, Praise to Matter, Galeria Fernando de Azevedo, Lisbon
2019, About Painting, National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon
2019, SGPCM Award, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Lisbon
2019, Contemporary Interventions on Memory, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon
2019, The Transparency of Tangible Objects, Gallery Portalegre Castle, Portalegre
2018, 9th Edition of AAAVG: Artists Open Studios, Lisbon"

2021, Young Artist from Covilhã to participate in Greek Exhibition, Paulo Pnheiro, Radio Cova da Beira
2021, Artist Ânia Pais exhibits at NOVA until October, Paulo Menano, Sapo
2020, Ânia Pais: art as a way to be humans again, Rute Mateus, Aldeias Vivas