Cristina Castro (7D13-544C-59DF)

Curriculum Vitae

Cristina Castro

Cristina Castro (Porto, 1974) is an artist, researcher and curator and teaches at the School of Media Arts and Design, Polytechnic Institute of Porto and at Aveiro University. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Art from College of Arts, Coimbra University, a master's degree in Museology and Cultural Heritage from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra and a professional degree in Fine Arts - Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Porto University. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions since 1995. Her work has as its structure the materialization of possibilities of the idea of flow, in drawing and painting, giving visibility to that which, having a presence, is invisible.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Cristina Castro

Citation names

Castro, Cristina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 7D13-544C-59DF
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6936-5858

Websites

http://www.motelcoimbra.pt/#/student/cristina-castro/ (Scholar)
http://www.anamnese.pt (Professional)
https://cristinacastroatelier.wordpress.com (Professional)
https://zet.gallery/artista/cristina-castro-92218 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Arts
Humanities - Arts - Art history

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Beginner (A1)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Elementary (A2)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015/10/01 - 2023/01/26 Concluded	Contemporary Art (Doutoramento) Major in Visual Arts Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Colégio das Artes, Portugal "The Invisibility in the contemporary pictorial landscape" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovada com distinção e louvor por unanimidade (summa cum laude)
2015/09/01 - 2019/05/30 Concluded	Advanced Specialization Course in Contemporary Art (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Major in Contemporary Art Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Colégio das Artes, Portugal	17 (0/20)
2004/10/01 - 2009/01/14 Concluded	Museology and Cultural Heritage (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Programação museológica do Museu Casa Atelier Oliveira Ferreira "Museological programming of the Casa Atelier Oliveira Ferreira Museum"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very Good unanimously
2002 - 2003 Concluded	Museology and Cultural Heritage (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	16 (0/20)
1994 - 2001 Concluded	Fine Arts - Painting (Licenciatura) Major in Painting Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal	14 (0/20)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09/21 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
2020/01/02 - Current	Researcher (Research)	ID+ Research Institute for Design, Art, Media and Culture, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/02/21 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, Portugal

2023/10/01 - Current	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal

2024/06/25 - 2024/06/28	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy
	Università Iuav di Venezia Dipartimento di Culture del Progetto, Italy
2024/05/17 - 2024/05/22	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Université de Versailles. Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines, France
	Universitè de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Vélizy Site de Rambouillet, France
2017/10/10 - 2023/09/30	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2023/05/24 - 2023/05/28	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France
	École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France
2016/11/07 - 2017/02/28	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
2002/08 - 2002/11	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta affiliated to University of Calcutta, India
	Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta affiliated to University of Calcutta, India
2002/01/28 - 2002/08/28	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/02/05 - Current	Member of ESMAD - P.PORTO Culture Centre	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2019/02/22 - Current	Foundation Diploma Course Coordinator	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal

2021/02/01 - 2022/06/01	Coordinator of the postgraduate course in Illustration and Animation	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2005/07/01 - 2005/12/30	Trainer of Professional Degree in Scenography	RTP (Rádio e Televisão em Portugal) Media Parque, Portugal
	RTP (Rádio e Televisão em Portugal) Media Parque, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2024/06/25 - 2024/06/28	Erasmus + 2022-1-PT01-KA131-HED-000061490 Other	European Commission Concluded
2024/05/17 - 2024/05/22	Erasmus + 2023-1-PT01-KA131-HED-000138703 Erasmus +	European Commission Concluded
2023/05/24 - 2023/05/28	Erasmus + 2022-1-PT01-KA131-HED-000059840 Erasmus +	European Commission Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Castro, Cristina. "Água sobre água". In Sem Limites. Maia, Portugal: Câmara Municipal da Maia, 2020. Published Castro, Cristina. "Sem título". In Memórias, 1a Mostra de Arte Contemporânea do Côa e Douro Superior. Sever do Vouga, Portugal: Centro Cultural de Foz Côa e Centro de Artes e Cultura de Sever do Vouga, 2010. Published
Conference abstract	Castro, Cristina. "Eu estava lá?". Paper presented in Montanha Mágica 4ª edição, Arte e Paisagem, Covilhã, 2023. Published Castro, Cristina. "Trouble and Desire". Paper presented in Encontros Sobre Investigação Artística: States of the Art, Coimbra, 2023. Published
Conference paper	Castro, Cristina. "Programação Museológica do Museu Oliveira Ferreira". Paper presented in I Seminário de investigação em museologia dos países de língua portuguesa e espanhola, Porto, 2009. Published
Edited book	Leite, Luís; Rodrigues, Rui; Tomé-Marques, Horácio; Quelhas, V.; Castro, Cristina; Carvalho, Rodrigo. Intermediartes: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Media, Arts and Interaction. Vila do Conde, Portugal. 2023. Published
Journal article	Castro, Cristina. "cum festinatione". Stellae. Revista de Arte* (2023): Under revision
Magazine article	Castro, Cristina; Ferreira, Miguel. "Ver o que se move, justamente porque se escapa do lugar.", Colóquio Expressão Múltipla VI: teoria e prática do desenho: atas das conferências., 2023, https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/58346. Castro, Cristina. "Visitação à cascata de Corot", exposição MOTEL COIMBRA #3, 2016, https://colegiodasartesexposicoes.pt/exposicao/motel-coimbra-mmxvi.
Thesis / Dissertation	"The Invisibility in the contemporary pictorial landscape". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra Colégio das Artes, 2023. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/114366?locale=pt. "Museological programming of the Casa Atelier Oliveira Ferreira". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, 2009.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition

II Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Trás-os-Montes, Museu de Arte Sacra, Macedo de Cavaleiros, [Group Show]. 2024.
We leave them where we found them, curated by Domingos Rego and presented by Fernando António Baptista Pereira, Galeria Cisterna, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa [Solo exhibition]. 2024.
Arte de Bolso XII [Group Show]. 2023.
Was I there? [Group Show]. 2023.
Water on Water, Galeria do Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra, [Solo exhibition]. 2023.
Arte de Bolso XI [Group Show]. 2022.
Sem Limites [Group Show]. 2020.
XX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira [Group Show]. 2018.
"Motel Coimbra #3". Curadoria António Olaio. [Group Show]. 2016.
Antipodes [Solo exhibition]. 2012.
Time Moulds [Solo exhibition]. 2007.
On the International Date Line / Na Linha da Data Internacional [Solo exhibition]. 2006.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/06/20	Trouble and desire	Encontros Sobre Investigação Artística: States of the Art Colégio das Artes, Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2009	Museum Programming of the Oliveira Ferreira Museum	Research Seminar on Museology in Portuguese and Spanish Speaking Countries Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/02/01 - 2022/07/20	LEGO Racers Rocket Racers Supervisor	Professional Higher Technical Course in Game Design and Digital Animation (Other) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/06/13 - Current	Ver o Real — A presença do Corpo no Lugar \| Seeing the Real — The presence of the Body in the Place (2024/06/13 - 2024/06/13) Workshop (Other)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2024/04/18 - 2034/04/20	Jornada Científica Internacional "Estética e Ambiências" \| International Scientific Conference "Aesthetics and Ambiences" (2024/04/18 - 2024/04/20) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2024/02/01 - Current	Member of the Scientific/Artistic Committee of: Intermediartes, Cycle in Media, Arts and Interaction, ESMAD, Porto Member	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2024/03/31	Member of the Editorial Committee of: Intermediartes, Cycle in Media, Arts and Interaction, ESMAD, Porto http://www.intermediartes.com Advisor / Consultant	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024/07/16 - 2024/07/16	Member of the Jury (president), in the Public Defense Test of the Final Project Curricular Unit of the Degree in Photography , with the Project "meia noite meio dia / midnight noon"	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal Centro Português de Fotografia, Portugal
2024/07/16 - 2024/07/16	Member of the Jury (president), in the Public Defense Test of the Final Project Curricular Unit of the Degree in Photography , with the Project "A Porcelana / The Porcelain"	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal Centro Português de Fotografia, Portugal
2024/07/11 - 2024/07/11	Member of the Jury (examiner), in the Public Defense Test of Curricular Internship "Venci 3D" within the scope of the Professional Technical Course in Game Design and Animation	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2024/07/11 - 2024/07/11	Member of the Jury (examiner), in the Public Defense Test of Curricular Internship "Pintura, Traçagem e Animação / Painting, Tracing and Animation" within the scope of the Professional Technical Course in Game Design and Animation	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2024/07/11 - 2024/07/11	Member of the Jury (examiner), in the Public Defense Test of Curricular Internship "Animação: digital e tradicional / Animation: digital and traditional" within the scope of the Professional Technical Course in Game Design and Animation	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2024/07/11 - 2024/07/11	Member of the Jury (examiner), in the Public Defense Test of Curricular Internship "Desenvolvimento de animações digitais para empresas / Development of digital animations for companies" within the scope of the Professional Technical Course in Game Design and Animation	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2022/07/12 - 2022/07/12	Member of the Jury (examiner), in the Public Defense Test of the Final Project Curricular Unit of the Degree in Photography, of the Project "Caminhando na Avenida das Memórias / Walking on the Avenue of Memories"	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal Centro Português de Fotografia, Portugal