Ines Gato

Inês Gato was born in 1966 in Lisbon, Portugal.
She studied at António Arroio High School and graduated from AR-CO with a degree
in Graphic Design. She is also a graduate of ETIC where she studied Computer Design.
She currently lives and works in Ericeira, a seaside town and her family’s Summer destination since ever.
Her exploration of painting begins in 1994.
In 1999, after a professional carrer in communication design, she decides to devote herself to visual arts as her main occupation.

My identity comes spontaneously and intuitively.
I believe if an artist’s language is forced or rationally planned, it will not be genuine.
The creative process will always remain a mistery...a journey into my inner world as I filter influences and inspirations from the outside.
The importance of the individual is integral to my painting. Artistic creation with a focus on human emotions and expressions.
Ideas come to me in all sorts of circumstances, such as walking, dreaming, listening to music or seeing an picture...and very often working.
Formally and chomatically, I’m interested in the connecting thread between the microcosm and the macrocosm. A magical and surprising universal law tha I believe exists.
I bring and transform re...

Inês Gato was born in Lisbon in 1966.
She studied at António Arroio High School and graduated from AR-CO with a degree
in Graphic Design. She is also a graduate of ETIC where she studied Computer Design.

Inês started painting in oils in 1995.

2002 - First solo exhibition at the Herois Lounge in Chiado and participated in a collective exhibition at the Ars Pictorica Gallery.
2003 - She is invited by Oeiras City Hall to take part in the first edition of “ArteEstoril” - Contemporary Art Fair.
Second solo exhibition in “Lagar do Azeite Gallery”.
2004 - Was represented by “9arte Gallery”
2005 - Collective exhibition at the Tourist Office of Ericeira.
Was represented by "Arquê - ArtGallery"
2007 - Solo exhibition "Transformation" in "Arquê - ArtGallery".
2010 - Solo exhibition " Catharsis" in "Praça das Flores - Galeria" .
2011 - Was represented by "Art-Form" Gallery".
2012 - Solo exhibition Invited by "ArtinPark" in "Spazio Dual".
2013 - Is invited by Odivelas City Hall to take part at the Arts Bienal.
Odivelas Exhibition Center.
2015 - Collective exhibition at the CNAP Gallery. Lisbon.
2016 - Collective exhibition at MISO Gallery. Lisbon.
2017 - Solo exhibition in Electricblue Store at Príncipe Real Palace. Lisbon.
2018 - Collective exhibition at CNAP Gallery. Lisbon.