Marta Soares
Marta Soares holds a BA in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies and a MA in Art History. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Art History Department at the New University of Lisbon and a Doctoral Research Fellow at the IHA [Instituto de História da Arte | Institute of Art History] at the same University. Her ongoing PhD dissertation, supervised by Professor Joana Cunha Leal (New University of Lisbon) and Professor Teresa Castro (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), focuses on animation and modernism.
From 2013 onwards, she has participated in several conferences, and published articles on Portuguese modernism in journals and exhibition catalogues, having collaborated with several museums, such as the CAM [Centro de Arte Moderna | Centre of Modern Art] — Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (in Lisbon), the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea — Museu do Chiado (in Lisbon), the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis (in Porto), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (in Madrid). In 2019, Marta became a member of the Society for Animation Studies. Since her MA, Marta Soares has been researching on the Portuguese avant-garde painter Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. In 2016, together with Professor Raquel Henriques da Silva, she was the curator of the exhibition Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso/ Porto Lisboa / 2016 — 1916. Her main research interests revolve around modernism, animation, art theory and historiography. |