Joana Vieira de Castro (Lisbon, 1986) is a visual artist who works primarily in the fields of painting, installation, and video. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon and completed her master’s degree in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in London.
Her practice revolves around the tensions between utopia and dystopia, exploring interior and exterior spaces, both physical and psychological. Through color, she constructs visual narratives in which the human figure appears in relation to nature and space, drawing on cultural and symbolic references.
Her work investigates how landscapes and environments can reflect mental and emotional states, creating images that hover between the real and the imagined. Her compositions evoke ambiguous atmospheres where different layers of meaning coexist.
Since 2009, the year she received the BPI Arte – Painting Award, she has been exhibiting regularly in national and international contexts. She has held solo exhibitions at galleries such as Serpente Contemporânea in Porto, the Espaço Cultural das Mercês in Lisbon, and the ORT Gallery in Birmingham. In parallel, she is a member of the Azarujinha Cultural Association, collaborating on initiatives in the artistic and cultural fields.
