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Catarina Coelho

Catarina Coelho working with a student in the printmaking studio
Title: 
Assistant Director FA2D Printstudio / Lecturer / Graduate Faculty
Department: 
Fine Arts 2D
Illustration
Printmaking
Email: 
ccoelho@massart.edu
Phone: 
(617) 879-7506
Office: 
East 201
Bio: 

Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Catarina Coelho is a mixed-media artist whose drawings and printmaking work explore the subject of landscape as a testimonial site of human interaction with a territory. While her artwork is based in drawing and printmaking, her artistic practice also includes painting and writing.

Catarina Coelho studied painting and printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and at the Accademia di Belle-Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Recent collective exhibitions include: Childs Gallery, Boston; Washington Art Association, CT; Danforth Art Museum, MA; Second International Print Biennale, Yerevan 2019; Venice International Art Fair 2019, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice, Italy; European Contemporary Print Triennial 2019, Toulouse, France; 3rd Global Print 2017, Douro, Portugal; Stove Factory Gallery, MA; Concord Center for the Visual Arts, MA.

Awards include: Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship - 2020 Finalist; 2015 Artist’s Resource Trust Fund from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation. Her work is in several collections including Boston Public Library and the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston.

Connect: catarinalcoelho.com

Education: 
2013 MFA 2D, MassArt; 2010 - MA, Philosophy of Art, University of Lisbon, Portugal; 2004- Fine Arts Licentiate, University of Lisbon;