Joana Escoval - Biography
b. 1982, Lisbon, Portugal / Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal
Joana Escoval’s practice circumscribes visual and aural in the form of sculpture, collective walks, video installations and printed matter.
A selection of exhibitions and projects includes Wordless and Earthen, Bombon Projects, Barcelona, Spain / WIND DREAMS, Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon, Poryugal / I am Molten Matter, S.M.A.K Gent, Belgium /Nothing is Lost. Art and Matter in Tarnsformation, GAMec Museum, Bergamo, Italy / Strange Atractor, Branco, Lisboa, Portugal / Mutações. The Last Poet, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal / Fiorucci Art Trust, London / The sun lovers, Tenderpixel, London / Fiducia Incorreggibile, Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon, Portugal / Transmissions from the Etherspace, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain / Current Detours, HalfHouse, Barcelona, Spain / I will go where I don't belong / Volcano Extravaganza, Forucci Art Trust, Stromboli, Italy / I forgot to go to school yesterday, Kunsthalle Lissabon and Kunsthalle Tropical, Iceland / Lichens Never Lie, La Criée Centre for Contemporary Art, Rennes, France / Matter Fictions, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal / The lynx knows no boundaries, Fondation d' ́entreprise Ricard, Paris, France / Europe, Europe, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway.
She won the BES Revelação Prize in 2012 (Serralves Museum) and was nominated for the EDP Foundation New Artists Prize in 2015, in Portugal. Escoval has received a fellowship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and FLAD Foundation in 2013. Among other residencies attention is drawn to Fiorucci Art Trust Residency in Stromboli in 2015, and RU, in New York in 2013/14. She has recently published two flexi-discs with Atlas Projectos and Palmário Recordings.
In collaboration with the artist Nuno da Luz, they have just edited the album “Beasts of Gravity”, a double LP released by Vinyl Factory, London in 2019.