CRISTINA ASSUNÇÃO

BIO

My face!

Cristina Assunção is a Portuguese artist, researcher and producer based in Manchester. Working across painting, performance and installation, her practice explores citizenship, migration and belonging through embodied and politically engaged approaches. Grounded in lived experience and research, her work examines how social and political ideas are carried through material, gesture and public space.

She holds an MA in Art & Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Art and Design for the Public Space from FBAUP, Porto. Her work has been presented in the UK and internationally and supported by organisations including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Cristina is an Associate Research Member at LIDA (Research Laboratory in Design and Arts).

PAST PROJECTS

Be a happening to each other
Be a happening to each other
Project 2
Project 2
310 New Cross
310 New Cross
Project 4
Project 4
Project 5
Project 5
Project 6
Project 6
Project 7
Project 7
Project 8
Project 8
Project 9
Project 9
Project 10
Project 10
Project 11
Project 11
Project 12
Project 12
Project 13
Project 13
Project 14
Project 14
Project 15
Project 15
Project 16
Project 16
Project 17
Project 17
Project 18
Project 18

CV

Education

2018–2019
MA Art & Politics
Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2014–2017
MA Art and Design for the Public Space
FBAUP – Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal
2005–2009
BA Fine Arts
ESAD.CR – Politécnico de Leiria, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Qualifications and Training

October 2020
On the Common Self, Alex Arteaga, Stockholm University of the Arts (online)
June 2019
Doing the Thinking. Thinking the Doing, João Fiadeiro and Roman Bigé, Culturgest, Lisbon
July 2018
AND Lab Summer School – Research Centre for Art-thinking & Politics of Togetherness, Lisbon
June 2016
“The Untitled Workshop”, Barbara Holub, Bodied Spaces Festival, Oporto

Teaching Experience

2019–2020
Associate Lecturer, ESAD.CR – Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Fine Arts Studio (4D)
2019–2020
Visual Art Teacher, Primary Education, Leiria, Portugal

Professional Affiliation

April 2021–Present
Associate Research Member, LIDA – Research Laboratory in Design and Arts, Portugal

Curatorial Projects

2017
Incerta desambiguação (Uncertain/Unambiguous), Gallery Zaratan, Lisbon
Group exhibition (19 October–18 November)
2017
Today as yesterday – different than tomorrow, Espaço da Concas Museum, Portugal
Group exhibition (11 March–8 April)
2017
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Espaço da Concas Museum & online
Public programme (11–12 and 18–19 March)
2011
PRAGA – Itinerant and Alternative Art Festival, CAR, Guimarães
Art festival / group exhibition (3–5 April)

Production

2022
Director’s Assistant, Gelato, Georgina Starr / Hermès, London
2021
Monitor, L’Arc de Triomphe Wrapped, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Paris
2019
Props / Production Assistant / Extra, Quarantaine, Georgina Starr, London
2016
Monitor, The Floating Piers, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Italy
2013
Set Design / Production Assistant, Bergen Assembly, Norway
2011
Director / Lead Curator, Casa Titã Gallery & Shop, Lisbon

Publications

Critical Writing

“The commonplace – between objects and ideas in public space…”, Samuel Silva & Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro (eds.), FBAUP, 2018.

Artzines

  • “Circulating in the commonplace”, FBAUP, 2018.
  • “A Natureza não tem Limites”, Borealis #4, 2012.
  • “PRAGA – Itinerant and Alternative Art Festival 3rd edition”, CAR, 2011.
  • “Ora porra!”, Maga-Visual Art Exhibition, 2010.

Conferences

2020
“Tool to act? – One question to Balibar”, NOVA University, Lisbon
2017
“The Commonplace – Between Objects and Ideas in Public Space”, FBAUP, Oporto
2017
“The Commonplace”, IJUP – Young Researchers Encounter, Oporto University

Exhibitions & Performances

Solo

  • 2019 – A Routine for my Skin, London
  • 2019 – To be a happening for each other, Elvas
  • 2019 – Hold on a gesture, London

Group (Selected)

  • 2019 – RAW Labs, London
  • 2015 – Berliner Herbstsalon, Berlin
  • 2012 – Red Bull House of Art, Lisbon

Artist Residencies

  • 2019 – A Salto, UM COLETIVO, Portugal
  • 2019 – Goldsmiths 310 Gallery, London
  • 2016–2018 – Artist Studio, Arts Centre, Portugal
  • 2007 – CENTA, Portugal

Prizes & Awards

  • 2020 – Visual Art Support Grant, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
  • 2018 – Research Scholarship, CalArts
  • 2017 – Visual Art Grant, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
  • 2017 – Grant, Wikimedia Foundation
  • 2016 – Special Mention, Porto Lazer / EDP
  • 2015 – Special Mention, Anonymous Stateless Immigrants
  • 2003 – Young Painter of the Year Award, Rotary Club