Fátima Sardinha

Fátima Sardinha was born in 1975, in Faro, Portugal. She started painting early, at the age of 14 in a Painting Club at Basic School. After, was a student of Arts during three years at the Secondary School. There, for the first time, she started doing oil painting with her teacher, the painter Rosa Trindade. Since then, oil painting has been her favourite painting material. She continued painting all her life as a hobby, and made some local exhibitions near Porto where she lives. In 2018 she decided to return to painting and invest seriously in her passion since early age having created more than 100 works since then. In 2019 she founded the (), an international group with 59 artists from 27 countries, one US curator and two psychologists, engaging in sharing experiences, in art therapy and in exhibitions.
She is a self-taught artist that expresses her feelings and experiences of life by color, movement and texture in an abstract way. She does mainly pure oil paintings with large and medium sizes. She uses the integration of different arts, like music and poetry with her painting has a way to enrich the work, the feelings and the sensations the observer can achieve. This way, the painting is an active piece that should interact w...

Fátima is a primary school teacher and, after started working, she continued studying for many years, because of her eagerness of learning, obtaining the Master and PhD degrees in Child Studies, specialized in Elementary Mathematics.
Master Degree (2005), Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
PhD (2011), Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

2023 - "A FESTIVAL, Quando o feminismo bate o pé, o mundo treme" / Galeria Geraldes da Silva - Porto, Portugal

2022 - Underneath Perception / Aderita Artistic Space - From 8th July until 6th August - Vale do Lobo, Portugal (Solo Exhibition)

2022 - ARTIS XVIII – Festa das Artes e Ideias de Seia - 7th May - 30th July / Seia Cultural Centre and Art Gallery Seia, Portugal

2022 - The Light of Life - 9th Beijing International Art Biennale / National Art Museum of China, Beijing - January 18th ,2022 – March 1st, 2022 - Beijing, China

2021 - Monumental / Collective Exhibition - Online Exhibition - 1st December - 31st January 2022 - Chicago, United States

2021 - Reflexões sobre o Castelo da Feira / Museu de Lamas - 5th November - 5th December 2021 - Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal

2021 - Collective Exhibition - "Opening" / Online Exhibition - 1st September - 31st October - Chicago, United States

2021 - Collective Syergy - A Screaming Art Group Exhibition / Online Exhibition - 4th July - 30th September - Chicago, United States

2021 - ARTIS XVII – Festa das Artes e Ideias de Seia - 8th May - 30th June / Seia Cultural Centre and Art Gallery - Seia, Portugal

2021 - 4ª Bienal Internacional de Arte de Gaia 2021 - 17th April - 10th July 20...