Ana Jotta was born in 1946 in Lisbon, where she works and lives. Having attended Lisbon Fine Arts School and Brussels' École d'Arts Visuels de l'Abbeye de la Cambre, Worked as an actress and stage designer (1976-79) with "Produções Teatrais" (University Theatre, Lisbon). From the 1980's onwards, she focused her activity on the visual arts and since the early nineties has been a regular presence at major art fairs and biennales (ARCO, Brussels, Johannesburg, Barcelona, etc.). In 2005, she held a retrospective exhibition, Rua da Ana Jotta at the Serralves Museum and in 2014, an anthological one, 'The conclusion of the precedent,' at Culturgest, Lisbon. She received in 2013 the EDP Foundation Grand Prize, in 2014, the AICA Prize and in 2017, the Rosa Shapire Award, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.

Ana Jotta has been building, since the early 1980s, a body of work made of a sequence of ruptures and erasures: the erasure of her own previous steps; of modernist ideology and post-modern mythologies; and of the notion of authorship - either by deconstructing it or rebuilding it, she has attempted to dismantle the idea of a coherent or univocal style. Through a bare economy of means, her work shows a great sense of intelligence and wit. With Ana Jotta, you can always expect the unexpected.