Margarida Kendall

Margarida Kendall was born in 1946 in Lisbon, Portugal.

She attended the degree course in History and Philosophy at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. She graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1974, and obtained a Master of Fine Arts from the Catholic University of America in 1982.

In 1986 she was Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Towson State University. In 1993 she joined the faculty of George Mason University as Assistant Professor of Studio Art, an institution where she taught between 1994 and 2000, and from which she is now retired.

Over the course of her career she has held numerous solo exhibitions in Portugal and the United States, notably at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Centro de Arte Moderna), Lisbon (1984), Gallery K, Washington, D.C. (1994 and 1998), McLean Project for the Arts, Virginia (1996), Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon (2003 and 2007), Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1981, 1983 and 1990), and Arte e Mania, Lisbon (1995).

She has likewise taken part in numerous group exhibitions and curatorial projects in Portugal and the United States, including exhibitions at the Museu da Água, Lisbon (1999), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. (1995), the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1996), the Ateneo de Madrid (2000) and the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama (2006).

Her work is represented in public and private collections, among them the Tullman Collection, Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Lisboa, the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Centro de Arte Moderna), Lisbon, and Coopers & Lybrand, Washington, D.C.

Among the distinctions and institutional appointments of her career are the Women’s Committee Award of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1974), participation in the Art in the Embassies Program of the U.S. Department of State (1990), selection for the Finding Your Voice panel at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (1994), and appointment to the jury of the Tarwick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards (2003).