Ana Cardoso (b. 1978, Lisbon) is an artist based in Lisbon and New York. Cardoso’s practice provides a singular take on abstraction, performance, and installation through the reinterpretation of painting in both stable and fluid contexts. Her paintings are objects that interact as bodies and function as props. Her solo exhibition Leaky Abstraction is currently on view at MAAT Museum in Lisbon, until Sep 17, 2023.

She has had solo or duo exhibitions at Renata Fabbri, Milan (2023); Nuno Centeno, Porto (2019); Parapet Real Humans, St Louis (2018); Arpad Szenes—Vieira da Silva Museum, Lisbon (2018); Temnikova & Kasela, Tallin (2017); Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Knokke (2016); Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2015); MNAC—Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon (2015); Múrias Centeno, Lisbon (2014); Longhouse Projects, New York (2014); Maisterravalbuena, Madrid (2012); Pedro Cera, Lisbon (2012); Soloway, Brooklyn (2011); Conduits, Milan (2011); Southfirst, Brooklyn (2008); among others.

Cardoso was included in exhibitions such as Footnote 15: A Prototype, Galerias Municipais—Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon (2022); Pintura: Campo de Observação, Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (2021); Modern Collection, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018-2019); EDP Foundation’s New Artists Award, MAAT Museum, Lisbon (2017); Old Truths & New Lies, Rachel Uffner, New York (2015); Modern Talking, Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Cluj (2012); Prague Biennial 5, Prague (2011); Tate Film: Exploring the Abstract, Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2011); With, Against, And Yet: Painting And The Ready-Made Gesture, The Kitchen, New York (2009); Bendover/Hangover: An Evening com Cinema Zero, White Flag Projects, St Louis (2008); Fidelidade Mundial Young Artists Prize, Culturgest, Lisbon (2007).

Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Flash Art, Mousse, Modern Painters, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Contemporânea, among other publications. It was featured in Painting Now edited by Suzanne Hudson, published by Thames & Hudson (2015).

She has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2019-2020) and was a fellow of Shandaken : Projects, Paint School masterclass (2018-2019).

Ana Cardoso received her MFA from Hunter College, New York (2006).