Ana Vidigal (Lisbon, 1960) lives and works in Lisboa.
Ana Vidigal’s work resorts to painting, from collage, assemblage and installation as processes of decontextualization and reconfiguration of images withdrawn from different sources, exploring matters as social and political values and even memories as carriers of those subjects.
Graduated in Painting at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts in 1984, Ana Vidigal won a scholarship from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (1985/1987). In March of 2014 exhibits Em Primeiro Lugar o Fim at Baginski, Galeria / Projectos, after Estilo Queen Anne, in 2011. Still in 2014 presented Jugular, at the Centro Cultural Português – Instituto Camões, in Luanda, AO. In 2010 the retrospective anthology show Menina Limpa Menina Suja, takes place at the Centro de Arte Moderna of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, PT) curated by Isabel Carlos. Integrated in 2009, once again under the curatorship of Isabel Carlos, the 9th Sharjah Biennal, in the United Arabe Emirates. In 2011 was the invited artist to a solo project at the Museu National de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado (Lisbon, PT), The brain is deeper than the sea. In 2012 shows Casa dos Segredos, installation embodied on the centenary celebrations of the Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa, curated by Ruth Rosengarten.
Her work is represented at the following collections: Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (PT), Culturgest (PT), Fundação de Serralves (PT), Banco de Portugal (PT), Colecção Berardo (PT), Manuel de Brito (PT), e Deutsche Bank (PT).