Ana Carolina is an Artist whose practice spans installation, video, sound, sculpture, painting, drawing, and community based projects. She has a BA from the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon and an MA from Chelsea College of Arts.
Recent drawings show images of the land that carries the spirits of her family. This land has changed immensely in the last few decades and she tries to depict this change. She draws trees that were burnt by a fire, a stream that has stopped running, dry flowers and weeds.
She has been awarded grants from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for a community based project which included a sound, visual and ecological, research journey in the Panamanian rainforest. This research resulted in an exhibition, workshops, a series of podcasts written about plants, healing and hope, that were streamed on Resonance FM, and a singing event in North Kensington
Her work has been exhibited at the Portuguese Embassy in Germany, Banana Jam Studio in China, Maxilla Space in London, Hangar in Lisbon. She has been artist in residency at La La Wayaka Current Tropics and there she composed a series of podcasts that were streamed in Resonance Extra FM. She is a founder member of the Project Space Maxilla in London.
She is represented by Alex Serra Gallery in Germany and Banana Jam studio in China.
She received UAL | Clifford Chance sculpture award.
SOLO SHOWS and RESIDENCIES
2022 We Might Find it Hard to Be Human Without the Sustenance That We are Lovable, Galerie Alex Serra, Cologne, Germany
2018 Hangar | Triangle Network, Lisbon, Portugal
A Sonorous Expedition, Maxilla Space and Resonance Extra, London
Artist in Residency in Tropics with La Wayaka Current, Panama
Artist in Residency at Banana Jam, Shenzhen, China
2017 Doremi Residency (Coniston Institute/Grizedale Arts)
Artist in Residency at Merz Barn, UK
Artist in Residency at Charlie Whinney Studio, UK
2016 InterIctal. London
Artist in Residency at Charlie Whinney Studio, UK
Ictal. Clifford Chance, London
2015 There, A Kind of Memory and the Irreversible Replacement. London
2013 Tronco – Fábrica da Pólvora, Oeiras
Artist in Residency at Fábrica da Pólvora, Portugal
GROUP SHOWS
2024 With each other III, Galerie Alex Serra, Germany
Flame´s Monologue, Zhenzhen, China
Time Gap, Shenzhen, China
2023 In Void, Shanghai, China
Do que é presente. E da distância, Portuguese Embassy in Germany, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlim
With Each Other II, Galerie Alex Serra, Germany
2022 With Each Other, Galerie Alex Serra, Germany
2021 In Void, Shanghai, China
Tudo O Que Podemos Fazer É Esperar, Galeria Paulo Nunes, PT
2020 Kunming in Yunnan, China
2019 Inhabited Space, UK
2018 Double Click, Shenzhen University Art Museum, China
Ensaio Sobre a Terra, Galeria Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo, PT
& anOther angle, Maxilla Space, London
2017 Doremi open weekend, Coniston
Seasons II, London
Seasons, London
2016 ReConFigure, London
Cumbrian Art, Penrith
Open Studios, London
Maxilla, London
2015 MA Final Show. London
CompoSITE. London
artisπ. London
2014 ±0°C, London
2013 Collective – Galeria Paulo Nunes, Vila Franca de Xira
Project III – Pavilhão do Cevadeiro, Vila Franca de Xira
Flawed Traces – Galeria Diferença, Lisboa
2012 O fio de Ariadne – Iseg, Lisboa
2009 Trópicos – Galeria 59, Lisboa
AWARDS
2018 Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea grant award
2016 Clifford Chance \ UAL Sculpture Award 2016
PRESS
2023 do que é presente, e da distância / Vom Gegenwärtige n. Und vo n der Entfernung João Silvério
2021 Art Catalogue Rui Sanches, Carolina Serrano, Ana Carolina Rodrigues, Mário Macilau & René Tavares, Galeria Paulo Nunes, Portugal
2018 Banana Jam Open Studios Review
2017 Doremi Artist Residency and Open Weekend 2017 by Corridor8
Residency at Cylinders by Carolina Rodrigues by Merz Barn
Lecturing at Chelsea College of Arts
CONTACT
carolinarodrigues085@gmail.com