Carla Cabanas

Carla Cabanas' work engages with methodologies that expand the defined boundaries of the photographic medium, while also exploring issues of personal, collective, and cultural memory. Carla has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial, National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado, Lisbon; IX Biennial of Contemporary Art Fundación ONCE, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain; Centro de Arte Quetzal, Vidigueira; Casa da Cultura, Elvas; National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon; OVNi – International Video Art Festival, Villa Victoria hotel, Nice, France; Iberian Museum of Archaeology and Art, Abrantes; Contemporary Art Centre of Coimbra; Carlos Carvalho Gallery – Contemporary Art, Lisbon; Appleton [Box], Lisbon; Centre Photographique d’Île de France; Arquipélago – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Azores; Brotéria, Lisbon; MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac, France; Aa Collections Gallery, Vienna; Biennale de l’Image Tangible, Paris; Grimmuseum, Berlin; Castello Visconteo Di Legnano, Milan, Italy; Panal 361, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lisbon City Museum; Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, Évora; Carpe Diem Art and Research, Lisbon; Lisbon Municipal Photographic Archive; 7th São Tomé and Príncipe Biennial; Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; and CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, among others.

In 2022, she was a finalist for the FLAD Drawing Prize from the Luso-American Foundation; in 2012, she received an Honorable Mention at the Purificación Garcia Photography Award and 3rd place at the Ariane de Rothschild Painting Prize, 2005. She has attended artist residencies in Austria, Germany, and São Tomé and Príncipe, as well as several in Portugal.

Her work is part of various collections, including: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; CACE (Contemporary Art Collection of the Portuguese State); MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology; Luso-American Foundation; LPS Collection (Stanislas and Leticia Poniatowski); Colección Kells, Santander; PLMJ Foundation Collection; Novo Banco Art Collection; LPS Collection; Lisbon City Council; and other private collections.