Conference Cycle Tatiana Macedo | Great Artists on Campus #4
An acclaimed visual artist, Tatiana Macedo explores photography, film, and sound to reflect on spaces, emotions, and cultural identities
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Tatiana Macedo (Lisbon, 1981) is a leading visual artist with a two-decade career in photography, essay film, installation, and sound. With a transdisciplinary background in Fine Arts from Central St Martins College of Art & Design (London, 2004) and a Master’s in Visual Anthropology from FCSH–NOVA University Lisbon (2012), she develops exploratory work that reconfigures spaces and reflects on the cultural and emotional conditions of her subjects.
Her first film, Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (2012), shot at Tate Britain and Tate Modern over three months, focuses on the bodies of museum guards. The work received the SAW Film Prize from the American Anthropological Association (2014) and has been screened internationally in festivals, museums, and galleries.
In 2015, Macedo became the first winner of the Sonae Media Art Prize with the video installation 1989 and was awarded the João Hogan Grant by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to join the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, in Berlin, as an artist-in-residence. In 2020, INTERSECCIÓN – International Film Festival of A Coruña dedicated a full retrospective to her work.
A grant holder of the Oriente Foundation (2008), the National Culture Centre (2009), the Ministry of Culture through the Inov-Art Grant (2010), and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2012, 2014, 2016), her work is represented in public and private collections, including the Ministry of Culture, MAAT/EDP Foundation, Lisbon City Council, MNAC-MC – National Museum of Contemporary Art Chiado, and Otazu Foundation. She currently lives and works in Lisbon.
