Helena Almeida

Helena Almeida (Lisbon, 1934-2018), daughter of the sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida, is one of the major figures of twentieth-century Portuguese art. She began with abstract canvases that questioned the limits of pictorial space and, in the 1970s, extended her practice to photography, in series such as the Inhabited Paintings, where she uses her own body as the support of the work. Her work brings together painting, drawing, sculpture and photography as ways of presenting and representing reality. She is held in the collections of Tate, London, and the Serralves Museum.