Adriana Proganó

Exhibition view, "I kissed the snake hello", 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2023. Photo: Bruno Lopes

Exhibition view, "I kissed the snake hello", 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2023. Photo: Bruno Lopes

Exhibition view "EDP Foundation New Artists Award 2022". Photo: Bruno Lopes

Exhibition view "EDP Foundation New Artists Award 2022". Photo: Bruno Lopes

Exhibition view "EDP Foundation New Artists Award 2022". Photo: Bruno Lopes

Exhibition view "EDP Foundation New Artists Award 2022". Photo: Bruno Lopes

Exhibition view "EDP Foundation New Artists Award 2022". Photo: Bruno Lopes

Exhibition view "EDP Foundation New Artists Award 2022". Photo: Bruno Lopes

Exhibition view, "Somos todos patos a querer ser cavalos" [We are all ducks wanting to be horses], curated by Filipa Oliveira, Casa da Cerca, Almada, 2020

Exhibition view, "Somos todos patos a querer ser cavalos" [We are all ducks wanting to be horses], curated by Filipa Oliveira, Casa da Cerca, Almada, 2020

Exhibition view, "Somos todos patos a querer ser cavalos" [We are all ducks wanting to be horses], curated by Filipa Oliveira, Casa da Cerca, Almada, 2020

Exhibition view, "Somos todos patos a querer ser cavalos" [We are all ducks wanting to be horses], curated by Filipa Oliveira, Casa da Cerca, Almada, 2020

Installation view, Thirdbase Residency 5th Edition, Lisbon, 2020

Installation view, Thirdbase Residency 5th Edition, Lisbon, 2020

Exhibition view, "BAD BEHAVIOUOR", curated by Sara Antónia Matos and Pedro Faro, Galeria da Boavista - Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, 2019

Exhibition view, "BAD BEHAVIOUOR", curated by Sara Antónia Matos and Pedro Faro, Galeria da Boavista - Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, 2019

Exhibition view, "BAD BEHAVIOUOR", curated by Sara Antónia Matos and Pedro Faro, Galeria da Boavista - Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, 2019

Exhibition view, "BAD BEHAVIOUOR", curated by Sara Antónia Matos and Pedro Faro, Galeria da Boavista - Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, 2019

Adriana Proganó (Luzern, 1992), lives and works in Lisbon. Adriana graduated in Visual Arts, ESAD, Caldas da Rainha, studied painting at the Accademia di Belli arti di Venezia, Italy, and did a Post-Graduation in Visual Arts. Since 2018, Adriana has been participating in individual and collective exhibitions. Solo exhibitions: I kissed the snake hello, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2023); We are all ducks wanting to be horses [Somos todos patos a querer ser cavalos], curated by Filipa Oliveira, Casa da Cerca, Almada (2020); Oouups, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon (2019); BAD BEHAVIUOUR, curated by Sara Antónia Matos and Pedro Faro, Galeria da Boavista – Galerias Municipais, Lisbon (2019). Among the group exhibitions, highlights include: Fantasma Gaiata, curated by Bruno Marchand, Culturgest, Lisbon (2023); Foundation EDP New Artists Award (winner), curated by Luís Silva, Luísa Santos & Sara Antónia Matos, Museu de Arte Arquitectura e Tecnologia – MAAT, Lisbon (2022);  Quem nos salva?, curated by Ana Cachola, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas (2022); Tenho de continuar, não posso continuar, vou continuar, curated by Victor Pinto da Fonseca, Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon (2022); Sonic Youth, curated by Filipa Oliveira, Galeria Municipal de Almada, Almada (2019); Artists on the line, curated by Carolina Trigueiros, Lisbon (2019); Umbigo, curated by Ana Vidigal, Espaço Real, Lisbon (2019);  I will take the risk, curated by Carolina Trigueiros, Tomás Hipólito Studio, Lisbon (2019); LOCUS19, Lisbon (2018); Bienal da Cerveira, Vila Nova da Cerveira (2018). Her work was on the cover of Contemporânea#5 (2020). In 2022 Adriana won the EDP Foundation New Artists Award. Publications dedicated to her work feature in Contemporânea, “2019: presenteeism and precarization”, article by Marta Mestre (March, 2020); Umbigo Magazine, “Bad Behavior by Adriana Proganó, at Galeria da Boavista”, article by Francisco Correia (2019); Umbigo#69, Interview by Ana Vidigal and Umbigo (2019); Revista do Expresso, critic by Celso Martins (2019); Dose#3 (2019).  Her work integrates collections such as the Contemporary Art Collection of the State, PT; EDP Foundation Collection, PT; António Cachola Collection, PT; Norlinda and José Lima Collection, PT; Caixa Geral de Depósitos Collection, PT.

Selected works

Not day not night, an invisible space in time, 2023
Oil on canvas, 184 x 207 cm. Photo: Bruno Lopes

Not day not night, an invisible space in time, 2023
Oil on canvas, 184 x 207 cm. Photo: Bruno Lopes

Cold soft swim with you, 2023
Oil on canvas, 175 x 206 cm. Photo: Bruno Lopes

Cold soft swim with you, 2023
Oil on canvas, 175 x 206 cm. Photo: Bruno Lopes

I breathe you, you breathe me, 2023
Oil on canvas, 160 x 206 cm. Photo: Bruno Lopes

I breathe you, you breathe me, 2023
Oil on canvas, 160 x 206 cm. Photo: Bruno Lopes

Best Friends, 2020
Oil on canvas, 155 x 122 cm

Best Friends, 2020
Oil on canvas, 155 x 122 cm

Untitled, 2020
Oil on canvas, 155 x 122 cm

Untitled, 2020
Oil on canvas, 155 x 122 cm

chest bump, 2020
Oil on canvas, 155 x 122 cm

chest bump, 2020
Oil on canvas, 155 x 122 cm

Salty, 2020
Oil on canvas, 132 x 103 cm

Salty, 2020
Oil on canvas, 132 x 103 cm

Adriana, 2020
Oil on canvas, 82 x 82 cm

Adriana, 2020
Oil on canvas, 82 x 82 cm

Kiss, 2020
Oil on canvas, 89 x 88 cm

Kiss, 2020
Oil on canvas, 89 x 88 cm

me me me me, 2020
Oil on canvas, 123 x 107 cm

me me me me, 2020
Oil on canvas, 123 x 107 cm

connected, 2020
Oil on canvas, 158 x 192 cm

connected, 2020
Oil on canvas, 158 x 192 cm

kick, 2019
Acrylic on canvas, 140 x 120 cm

kick, 2019
Acrylic on canvas, 140 x 120 cm

Untitled, 2019
Oil on canvas, 147 x 199,5 cm

Untitled, 2019
Oil on canvas, 147 x 199,5 cm

Exhibitions

Articles

To dream once more or the violet freshness of Adriana Proganó, Laila Algaves Nuñez, June 2023

Purple plain, Proganó na terra da gente púrpura, João Borges da Cunha, June 2023

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