Helena Almeida

Biography

Helena Almeida (Lisbon, Portugal, 1934 - Sintra, Portugal, 2018) studied painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes of Lisbon. She was awarded a scholarship from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris in 1964, where she became more interested in cultural life than in academic life. In 1967 she held her first solo painting exhibition at the Buchholz Gallery, in Lisbon. The desire to escape from the canvas is evident in Helena Almeida's early works, where she tries to break with the limits of painting and leave the support, literally transgressing the limits of the space of the work of ar…