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. She is currently preparing a solo exhibition for Maat Museum in Lisbon, and a solo presentation for Renata Fabbri in Milan, both taking place early 2023.

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).

She has had solo or duo exhibitions at 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.

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).