Untitled, c.1973
Luísa Correia Pereira
Luísa Correia Pereira was born in Lisbon in 1945 and died in the same city in 2009. Over the course of almost four decades she produced an idiosyncratic body of painting and drawing. Pereira lived in Rio de Janeiro from 1962 to 1968 and worked on the organization of the 4th Centenary of Rio de Janeiro. She moved to Paris in the 1970's and studied at the Catholic Institute of Paris, where she took the Librarian-Documentalist course and worked at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. At the same time she began her artistic work. In the early 1970s, Pereira focused mainly on drawing and on the exploration of printing techniques: engraving, woodcut, silkscreen, monotype. She received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1972-1974, and developed her engraving work at the Friedlaender Atelier of the engraver Stanley William Hayter in Paris. With the Carnation Revolution (1974) she returned to Lisbon.
Notable figures in the artists’ life, Mario São Roque and António Alfonso Lima have noted that: "Luísa was akin to a child. She lived in the euphoria of games; danced in gestures of lines as if they were ant trails in of piles of graphics that accumulate in the corners of her images. She was subsumed by the joy of colour. The recognition of her work, for us, is not only a matter of cultural justice, but also a life mission. Luísa has touched us in the most complex of ways. She lives in a parallel realm, a reality, beyond death, transmitting cosmic life." - Prof. Dr Omar Kholeif, 2025
Luísa Correia Pereira studied at the Institut Catholique de Paris. She was awarded a scholarship by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the early 1970s, where she developed her printmaking work at Atelier Friedlaender, Paris. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include UPPERCUT, Lisbon, Portugal (2022); Caroline Pagès Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (2018). Her work has been included in selected group exhibitions at Lisson Gallery, London, UK (2025); Sintra-Museu De Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal (2025); IVAM Centre Julio González,Valencia, Spain (2024); Museum of Contemporary Art , Lisbon, Portugal (2021); Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); and Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal (2019). Her works are also part of collections at FLAD, Lisbon; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; the EDP Foundation, Lisbon; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon; and the Norlinda and José Lima Collection.
Untitled, c.1973
Luísa Correia Pereira
Luísa Correia Pereira was born in Lisbon in 1945 and died in the same city in 2009. Over the course of almost four decades she produced an idiosyncratic body of painting and drawing. Pereira lived in Rio de Janeiro from 1962 to 1968 and worked on the organization of the 4th Centenary of Rio de Janeiro. She moved to Paris in the 1970's and studied at the Catholic Institute of Paris, where she took the Librarian-Documentalist course and worked at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. At the same time she began her artistic work. In the early 1970s, Pereira focused mainly on drawing and on the exploration of printing techniques: engraving, woodcut, silkscreen, monotype. She received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1972-1974, and developed her engraving work at the Friedlaender Atelier of the engraver Stanley William Hayter in Paris. With the Carnation Revolution (1974) she returned to Lisbon.
Notable figures in the artists’ life, Mario São Roque and António Alfonso Lima have noted that: "Luísa was akin to a child. She lived in the euphoria of games; danced in gestures of lines as if they were ant trails in of piles of graphics that accumulate in the corners of her images. She was subsumed by the joy of colour. The recognition of her work, for us, is not only a matter of cultural justice, but also a life mission. Luísa has touched us in the most complex of ways. She lives in a parallel realm, a reality, beyond death, transmitting cosmic life." - Prof. Dr Omar Kholeif, 2025
Luísa Correia Pereira studied at the Institut Catholique de Paris. She was awarded a scholarship by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the early 1970s, where she developed her printmaking work at Atelier Friedlaender, Paris. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include UPPERCUT, Lisbon, Portugal (2022); Caroline Pagès Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (2018). Her work has been included in selected group exhibitions at Lisson Gallery, London, UK (2025); Sintra-Museu De Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal (2025); IVAM Centre Julio González,Valencia, Spain (2024); Museum of Contemporary Art , Lisbon, Portugal (2021); Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); and Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal (2019). Her works are also part of collections at FLAD, Lisbon; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; the EDP Foundation, Lisbon; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon; and the Norlinda and José Lima Collection.