New Releases: Mónica de Miranda

VDB is excited to welcome Mónica de Miranda to the collection! Mónica de Miranda is a Portuguese / Angolan visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher whose interdisciplinary and research-based practice critically looks at the convergence of politics, gender, memory, space and history. Her work encompasses drawing, installation, photography, film and sound, on the boundaries between documentary and fiction. de Miranda investigates strategies of resistance, geographies of affection, storytelling, and ecologies of care. We are pleased to have acquired 20 works, spanning 2007 – 2024, which explore these ideas.

Mónica de Miranda is the founder and the artistic director of Hangar (2014), an art and research center in Lisbon. Hangar's programs provide spaces where artists, curators and researchers, mainly from the global south, can co-create and build social and creative networks to benefit their communities. de Miranda is also a researcher with the Foundation for Science and Technology in the Center for Comparative Studies at University of Lisbon where she coordinates the cluster Post-Archive: Politics of Place, Memory and Identity.

Her work has been presented at major international events and biennales, such as the Malta Biennale; Lagos Biennale; Berlin Biennale; and Houston FotoFest, to name just a few. de Miranda's solo and group exhibitions have taken place at Wexner Art Center, Photo Ireland, Caixa Cultural, Kadist Art Foundation, Barbican, and Camões Cultural Institute, among countless other institutions. de Miranda received the Soros Arts Fellowship (2024) and La Caixa Foundation Fellowship (2022). She won the Expanded Photography Prize in Torino (2024), and was nominated for the Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability (2024), EDP Foundation's New Artists Award (2019) and Novo Banco Photo Prize (2016).

Explore de Miranda's work below and on her artist profile!