Joana Moedas is a Portuguese visual artist based in Portugal and The Netherlands, whose work seeks to embody the nature of memory and perception. Working with mediums ranging between painting, video, and installation, their practice is driven by exploring the use of trauma as a medium. Often working with Archival Material such as personal and collective historical photographs, Moedas' employs the distorted logic of the psyche as a method of translating human experience back at itself. Themes of loss and longing, past and present, are imminent forces that push the work in an often necessarily anxious direction.
2026
Resident Artist at Cascais Lab Studio, Lisbon, Portugal.
Resident Artist at MAU/SNBA, Tagus Park Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal.
2025
Resident Artist at Cascais Lab Studio, Lisbon, Portugal.
2024
Resident Artist at In The Mountain Collective, De Bestuuring, Den Haag
Film Restoration Internship, Irma Lucia Visual Effects, Lisbon, Portugal
2023
Production & Curation Internship, 1646 Experimental Artspace, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Education
Pedagogy in Art Course (DGERT) NextArt, Lisbon (2026)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Art Den Haag (2023)
Young Talent Audiovisual Grant (2026/2027), Cascais Jovem | Projeta-te, Portugal
Exhibitions
MAU/SNBA Residency Exhibition (2027), Group Show, Tagus Park, Lisbon (Portugal)
Solidarity Exhibition - Quinta Essência Association (2026), Sociedade Nacional das Belas Artes, Lisbon (Portugal)
Corrente de Ar Volume VI (2026), Group Show, Beato Innovation District, Lisbon (Portugal)
Memórias Cruzadas (2025), Group Show, Cascais Lab Studio, Lisbon (Portugal)
Graduation Festival (2023), Group show, The Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag (Netherlands)
Three Birds, No Stone (2022), Group Show, Veerhaskade Warehouse, Den Haag (Netherlands)
To Give a Dog a Name (2022), Group show, Ruimtevaart-Billy town, Den Haag (Netherlands)
Madre Mare (2020), Motel X Film Festival, Cinema São Jorge, Lisbon (Portugal)
Transcendence (2019), Group Show, Ainori Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal)