Cláudia Matoos

Cláudia Matoos



Sobre el Artista


Drawings, Paintings, Photos, Instalations, Performaces Visual artist - Cláudia Matoos has dual nationality: Portuguese and Brazilian. From childhood to youth, she was a classical and contemporary dancer. Gradually, she replaced her ballet shoes with brushes. Among canvases, papers, pencils and paints, she graduated in Artistic Education, doing her Master’s degree on Schiller and Art. Like the philosopher Schiller, Claudia believes that “the artist is the son of his time”. PhD in Visual Arts, she developed a thesis on a generation of artists and intellectuals who maintained, for ten years, a Utopian Art Gallery, in years of repression in Brazil. She taught Arts for 21 years and was also a university teacher in Brazil. She was an invited teacher in the Drawing area at Faculdade de Belas-Artes of Universidade de Lisboa, from 2013 to 2016. Nowadays – She is a director of Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes de Lisboa, SNBA and researcher at Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes of Universidade de Lisboa, CIEBA-UL. Portugal. As an artist, she has held several international and individual exhibitions. She has participated in conferences, national and international congresses. Her research interest includes Art, Painting, Drawing, Art Education, History of Art,Image and Culture.