Ana Jotta

Ana Jotta was born in 1946 in Lisbon.^[2] She studied art at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Fine Arts) and at La Cambre in Brussels.^[3] From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema and theatre. She became more focused on visual arts since the 1980s.^[4]

Jotta explores all artistic fields: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, photography. She also works with craft techniques like sewing, embroidery and pottery.^[5] Her projects are extremely varied, she invents new and unexpected forms for each of her exhibitions. In 2018, she co-curated with Ricardo Valentim "from A to C",^[6] an exhibition of works by Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes at Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.

Jotta has had two major career retrospectives: "Rua Ana Jotta"^[7] at Museu Serralves (Porto, 2005)^[8] and "A Conclusão da Precedente" at Culturgest (Lisbon, 2014).^[9]