{"id":12,"date":"2026-06-09T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistshop.pletzenauer.com\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:38:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elisaochoa.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<section class=\"cm-about\">\n  <div class=\"about__hero\">\n    <div class=\"portrait\">\n      <div class=\"art-bare\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4\/5;height:100%;\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/profundezas.jpg\" alt=\"Profundezas, 2022 \u2014 Elisa Ochoa\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"muted\" style=\"display:block;margin-top:10px;font-size:13px;\"><em>Profundezas<\/em>, 2022<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"about__intro\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\">About<\/span>\n      <h1 class=\"about__head\">Elisa Ochoa<\/h1>\n      <p class=\"about__lede\">A Portuguese visual artist, curator and heritage researcher, born in Lisbon in 1974. She works across painting, drawing, illustration, photography and installation \u2014 her subjects nature, the forest and the sea, \u201cdrawing that is neither abstract nor figurative\u201d, held in the tension of the uncategorised artwork.<\/p>\n      <p>Ochoa read Philosophy at the Universidade Cat\u00f3lica in Lisbon and took a postgraduate degree in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art at the University of Lisbon, later completing a master\u2019s in Museology and Museography at the Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts. She taught performing arts in New York public schools for five years, led art-and-philosophy workshops for children in Paris and Barcelona, and was a researcher at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.<\/p>\n      <p>She has exhibited since 2008 in Lisbon, New York, Barcelona, Palma, Set\u00fabal and across Portugal, and curates and represents other artists. \u201cProfundezas\u201d \u2014 depths \u2014 was shown at the Museu Quinta de Santiago in Matosinhos in 2022. Originals are sold directly from the studio. Each work ships from Lisbon, crated and fully insured, with a certificate of authenticity.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <section class=\"about__exh\">\n    <h2>Selected exhibitions<\/h2>\n    <ul class=\"exh-list\"><li class=\"exh-row\"><span class=\"exh-year\">2022<\/span><span class=\"exh-title\"><em>Profundezas<\/em><\/span><span class=\"exh-place muted\">Museu Quinta de Santiago, Matosinhos<\/span><span class=\"exh-kind muted\">Solo<\/span><\/li><li class=\"exh-row\"><span class=\"exh-year\">2022<\/span><span class=\"exh-title\"><em>BOANDA (Angola &amp; Portugal)<\/em><\/span><span class=\"exh-place muted\">Centro Cultural Cam\u00f5es, Lunda<\/span><span class=\"exh-kind muted\">Curator<\/span><\/li><li class=\"exh-row\"><span class=\"exh-year\">2021<\/span><span class=\"exh-title\"><em>Acasos \u2014 Rui Ochoa<\/em><\/span><span class=\"exh-place muted\">SNBA, Lisbon<\/span><span class=\"exh-kind muted\">Curator<\/span><\/li><li class=\"exh-row\"><span class=\"exh-year\">2021<\/span><span class=\"exh-title\"><em>Do vento ao fundo do mar<\/em><\/span><span class=\"exh-place muted\">Centro Cultural, Cascais<\/span><span class=\"exh-kind muted\">Curator<\/span><\/li><li class=\"exh-row\"><span class=\"exh-year\">2019<\/span><span class=\"exh-title\"><em>Os peregrinos de F\u00e1tima<\/em><\/span><span class=\"exh-place muted\">Sant\u2019Antonio dei Portoghesi, Rome<\/span><span class=\"exh-kind muted\">Curator<\/span><\/li><li class=\"exh-row\"><span class=\"exh-year\">2008<\/span><span class=\"exh-title\"><em>First exhibitions<\/em><\/span><span class=\"exh-place muted\">Lisbon \u00b7 New York \u00b7 Barcelona<\/span><span class=\"exh-kind muted\">Group<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"about__cta\">\n    <p class=\"quote\" style=\"font-family:var(--serif);font-style:italic;font-size:clamp(22px,2.4vw,30px);line-height:1.4;max-width:640px;margin:0 auto 26px;\">Interested in a particular work, or in commissioning a piece?<\/p>\n    <div class=\"hero__actions\" style=\"justify-content:center;\">\n      <a class=\"btn btn--solid\" href=\"\/en\/shop\/\">View available work<\/a>\n      <a class=\"btn btn--text\" href=\"\/commissions\/\">Enquire about a commission \u2192<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profundezas, 2022 About Elisa Ochoa A Portuguese visual artist, curator and heritage researcher, born in Lisbon in 1974. She works across painting, drawing, illustration, photography and installation \u2014 her subjects nature, the forest and the sea, \u201cdrawing that is neither abstract nor figurative\u201d, held in the tension of the uncategorised artwork. 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