Joana R. Sá is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist, born in Mirandela (1993). She lives and works in Faro, where she completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts and her Postgraduate Degree in Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Algarve. She later specialized in Drawing in her Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Digital Media Art at the University of Algarve and the Open University.
Her work develops through drawing as an expanded field, conceptually assuming itself as a rhizome that explores methodologies of deviation, gesture, memory, code, and language. Through a visual alphabet—records of indecipherable codes from her core—her artistic process unfolds between encounters and misunderstandings, constructions and deconstructions, territorializations and deterritorializations, materializations and dematerializations, noises and harmonies, memories and forgetfulness.
Since 2013, she has participated in several exhibitions, notably the solo exhibitions A Cadência Insular: O Ritmo da Matéria Instável (2025), AREPO (2024, Galeria Praça do Mar), Entre Mundos (2023, Apaixonarte), and Nuvens de Ruído (2022, Associação 289). Among the group exhibitions, the following stand out: Synchronicity (2022, Plataforma Revólver), Noroeste-Sudeste: Novas Perspectivas no Desenho (2019, Fundação Júlio Resende: No Lugar do Desenho), 289 – Um Projeto de Pedro Cabrita Reis (2018, Associação 289) and Octagonal (2017, Galeria Trem).
She currently collaborates with the Zer0 Museum in educational activities and is a member of the board of Associação 289.
