Constança Arouca (Lisbon, 1976) graduated from the Advanced Course of Visual Arts, in 2004, and Individual Project in Moving Image, in 2005, both at Ar.Co, Lisbon. In 2006, participated in Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Visual Arts Course. In 2009 and 2011, was an artist in residence at Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier. In 2016, graduated from Nova University’s Master Program of Anthropology - Visual Cultures. Since then, she has developed her art work in the fields of drawing, printmaking and moving image. In parallel she begun two lines of printmaking research: between 2016 and 2017, she systematized the inventory of Printmaking Matrices at the National Museum of Ancient Art, in Lisbon, and presented the result of her research: “The Case Study of Iohannes Moll’s Copper Plate” at the conference: Stones, Blocks and Plates: Matrices/ Printing Surfaces in Research and Collections, at the Courtauld Institute of Art, in London. Between 2017 and 2020 she completed the Study of the Vietnamese Prints from the Kwok On Collection, at the Orient Museum, in Lisbon.