Patrícia de Herédia

Patrícia de Herédia was born in Lisbon in 1973. She lives and works in Carcavelos, where she has her studio.

She studied art in the United States, completing her secondary education in Florida. In Portugal she took watercolour classes with Michael Wieben in Sintra and attended the Painting and History of Art and the Drawing and Art Theory courses at Ar.Co in Lisbon between 1997 and 2002. She complemented this training with the Life Drawing course at Chapitô between 2002 and 2003.

She has exhibited regularly since 2007. Her solo exhibitions include "Alma da Vela", presented in 2008 at the Museu de Marinha in Lisbon and at the Rectorate of the Universidade da Madeira as part of the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Funchal, and "Ilhas 9 Mágicas", at the Centro Municipal de Cultura in Ponta Delgada in 2009. She also presented "Paisagens" at the Centro de Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor in 2014 and 2015, and "Forget Me Not" at Atelier Art Exhibit Space in New York in 2016.

Her relationship with Galeria São Mamede includes the solo exhibitions "As Minhas Paredes", in 2017, and "O Azul e Outras Cores", in 2019, both in Lisbon. During this period she also presented "As Duas Realidades" at Galeria AP’ARTE in Porto in 2018 and "O Cuidado" at the Centro Cultural de Cascais in 2020.

She has taken part in artist residencies in São Miguel, in the Azores, in 2008, and in Sula, Norway, in 2015, as well as in the 4th International Painting Symposium in Stary Sącz, Poland, in 2009. Her group exhibitions include "Raízes" at the Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida in Lisbon in 2019 and "Colectivo À Linha" at Taguspark in Oeiras in 2020.

She has produced commissioned series of oil paintings for the York House Hotel in Lisbon in 2001 and for the "Casas da Cidade" project of Grupo BES Saúde in 2009.

Her work is held in the public collections of the municipalities of Funchal, Ponta Delgada and Stary Sącz, as well as in corporate and private collections in Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States and Poland.