Ana Pérez-Quiroga (Coimbra, 1960) is currently a researcher at the Center for Art History and Artistic Research (CHAIA), at the University of Évora and a lecturer of Fine Arts at the António Arroio Visual Arts school. Pérez-Quiroga holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Art from the College of the Arts of the University of Coimbra (2017). The dissertation, entitled "An Archive of Daily Life #8: the accumulative schemes of objects and their determinants", was unanimously approved with praise and distinction. She was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship (4 years) from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. In 2007, with the thesis "Ana Gonta Colaço", Pérez-Quiroga received a Master’s Degree in Intermedia Visual Arts from the University of Évora, research that focused on one of the few female Portuguese sculptors from the first half of the 20th century. During this period, Pérez-Quiroga served as an Arts lecturer at Évora University. In 1999, Pérez-Quiroga graduated in Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, while completing the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Ar.Co, also in Lisbon (1998-2000). Previously, in 1993, she graduated in Interior and Furniture Design at the School of Decorative Arts/Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation, in Lisbon, resulting in her working for many years as an interior and furniture designer. In parallel with an academic career, she maintains an artistic practice and exhibits regularly since 1999. Her work is multimedia and materialized with installations, material culture, photography and performance art. Her object of research stems from everyday life, in its mapping of the construction of self-portraits, issues of identity and memory through material culture and post-memory. Since 2017, her work focuses on warfare and migration which she articulates through an aesthetic discourse. Significant solo shows were presented at the Museum of Art Architecture and Technology (MAAT), the National Museum of Contemporary Art (NMAC), the National Museum of Ancient Art, the Museum of Folk Art (MFA), and the Municipal Photographic Archive, all in Lisbon; the Museum Nogueira da Silva, in Braga; the Museum of Neo-Realism, in Vila Franca de Xira; the Convent of Christ, in Tomar; the Quartel of Contemporary Art, in Abrantes) and the MUDAS - Museum of Contemporary Art, in Funchal. Pérez-Quiroga was part of numerous group exhibitions held in the Culturgest and the NMAC, in Lisbon; the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza, in Guimarães; the Salamanca Art Center, in Salamanca, Spain; the Falconer Gallery, in Grinnell, IA, USA; the China World Art Museum, in Beijing, China; the Villa Savoye - Le Corbusier, in Poissy, France. She has been curated by António Olaio, Maria do Mar Fazenda, Pedro Lapa, Isabel Carlos, Paulo Cunha e Silva, Sílvia Guerra and Pedro Gadanho. Her work features several collections, including the NMAC, the Ar.Co Collection, the Costa Rodrigues Collection, the Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, the António Cachola Collection, the Vieira de Almeida Collection, Lisbon City Hall, Culturgest, EDP Foundation, PT Foundation, and the PLMJ Collection. Pérez-Quiroga was an artist in residence internationally, through grants from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2013); Oriente Foundation (2008 and 2015); French Institute of Portugal - International City of Arts (2015); Porto City Hall (2017). Her studio is supported by the Lisbon City Hall (2008-present). Pérez-Quiroga won the Best Visual Arts Exhibition Prize (2015) from the Portuguese Authors Society with the installation "Better dead than dumb", exhibited at MFA, in Lisbon. Since 2017, Pérez-Quiroga has devoted attention to themes of warfare, refugees and memory. Through her mother's history of exile as a child in the former USSR, she creates interactive and participatory projects including “Which house are you from? The Children of Russia: everyday episodes”, which has been showcased in several art spaces, art galleries and museums.