Cristina Troufa

Brief biographical statement:

Born in Oporto - Portugal,

Cristina Troufa is a Portuguese artist born (February 6th,1974) and based in Porto, Portugal.
Cristina holds a Licentiate Degree in Painting since 1998 and a Masters Degree in Painting since 2012, both in FBAUP (University of Fine Arts of Porto).
She has exhibited throughout Portugal, in solo and group shows since 1995 and international exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Australia, France, Canada, Denmark, Taiwan, UK and USA.

Cristina Troufa want to consolidate the idea of a self-portrait and/or self-representation but for other hand wants to reflect on a spiritual, emotional, and psychological inner self-portrait, that may be done conceptually. She uses her own image in autobiographical paintings that explore her life and spiritual beliefs. As a form of self-knowledge and self-questioning, her work explores an inner world in a symbolic way, which remains inaccessible to the voyeur that can only guess what each painting represents.
The artist describe her work as: “…something spiritual, a route between several lives and several times in the same life, coexisting side by side from strategies of self-representation that ultimately, question the meaning of life”…"The theme of...

Degree in Fine Arts - Painting, FBAUP (University of Fine Arts of Porto), 1998
Masters in Painting at FBAUP (University of Fine Arts of Porto)

Solo Exhibitions (last ones):
2022
"If you could see me now" Fresco galeria de arte, Algarve, Portugal
2021
"Todos temos Asas" CCC de Caldas da Rainha
2019
"EGO" - Centro Cultural de Cascais - Fundação D Luís I, Cascais, Lisboa
"UTOPIA" - Zet Gallery, Braga, Portugal
2018
“Herança” Galeria CNAP – Lisboa
2017
Double Solo Exhibition, D Contemporary, Londres, UK
“Self” Acervo Arte Contemporânea Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
2016
Galerie Courcelles Art Contemporain - double solo exhibition - Paris, France
“Retratos de Alma” Galeria Via Idea, Azeitão, Portugal
2015
“Fuso” Artes Solar Stº António Gallery, Porto, Portugal
“Introspección Crítica” de Cristina Troufa, Museu Karura Art Centre (MKAC) virtual exhibition on Second Life.
2014
Double solo show, We Art Gallery, Aveiro, Portugal
2013
“Interior” CAE-Centro de Artes e Espetáculos da Figueira da Foz, Portugal
“Re-cor-dar” Palpura Gallery, Lisbon
“Mais vale um pássaro a voar”, 57 Art Galery, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2012
“Subjectiv Freedom” - Four Solo Exhibitions, 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Mermaide Beach, Australia
“Emoções" Museu de Artes Decorativas, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2011
“ O Eu Narcísico” (“The Narcissistic Self") Palpura Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
“ A mascara reflec...