Vera Fonseka

 Vera Fonseka is an artist based in Portugal whose paintings have been widely exhibited nationally. She describes her works as conveying the paradoxical existence between the scrupulous intricacy of the details and the brutality of iconography. Fonseka's artistic process is marked by her use of mixed techniques with adhesives, fabrics, acrylics, and oils on canvas.

​She was born in 1982 in Tallinn (ex URSS, actually Estonia) in an actors-family. In 2003 Vera moved to Portugal where she's been living since then.

Inspired by Kandinsky, Frank Stella, Beatriz Milhazes and Alexandra Mir, Vera Fonseka tries to make conceptual contribution in Contemporary Art.
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Artist Statement:
« Inspired by the disorder of the present time. »

Bachelor degree in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, 2014.
Bachelor degree in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon, 2021.
Master´s Student in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon since 2021.

Individual Exhibitions:

2015 - "Semiautomatic Sweet", Galeria António Prates, Lisbon


Group Exhibitions:

2021 - Acervo. Galeria António Prates. Lisbon.
2021 - “Percursos”. Galeria António Prates.
2020 - “Amália - um olhar contemporâneo “. Galeria António Prates, Lisbon
2020 - Exposição de Acervo da Galeria, Galeria António Prates, Lisbon
2019 - Exposição de Acervo da Galeria, Galeria António Prates, Lisbon
2018, O tempo da Imagens II, Edições recentes do Centro Português de Serigrafia, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisboa 2018, Sonhar em Curdo, Livraria Leituria, Lisboa
2017- Exposição de Acervo da Galeria, Galeria António Prates, Lisbon
2017- Exposição de Acervo da Galeria, Galeria António Prates, Lisbon
2016 - Exposição de Acervo da Galeria, Galeria António Prates, Lisbon
2015 - Finalists in painting degree of 2014, National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon
2015 - ARTLAB - Symbolic Protocol, Faculty of Fine Arts Lisbon Gallery, Lisbon
2014 - Spring hall for Queen Isabel de Bragança prize, Casino Estoril, Estoril, Portugal
2014 - Art & Culture, Eka Unity Palace, Lisbon
2014 - FABLAB, Experimental Protocol, National Museum of Portalegre Guy Fino
2014 - GABA, Faculty of Fine Arts Lisbon
2014 - "C" from colo...