Ana Jotta (born 1946) is a Portuguese artist.

Early life

Ana Jotta was born in 1946 in

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. She studied art at ESBAL – ''Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa'' (

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) and at

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. From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema and theatre. She became more focused on visual arts since the 1980s.

Career

Jotta explores all artistic fields: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, photography. She also works with craft techniques like sewing, embroidery and pottery. Her projects are extremely varied, she invents new and unexpected forms for each of her exhibitions. In 2018, she co-curated with Ricardo Valentim "from A to C", an exhibition of works by Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes at

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, Lisbon. Jotta has had two major career retrospectives: "Rua Ana Jotta" at Museu Serralves (

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, 2005) and "A Conclusão da Precedente" at Culturgest (

, 2014).

References

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Ana Jotta works
at the

Gulbenkian Museum The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the world's most important private art collections. It includes works from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century, spanning the arts of the Islamic World, China and Japan, as well as the French decorat ...

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