BIOGRAPHY
Sara Miguel
Sara Miguel (Coimbra, 1997) is a visual artist who lives and works in Aveiro. She studied International Relations at the University of Coimbra.
Her practice emerges from an intersection of personal memory, fragility, and a dialogue with Africanism, family diaspora memories, and colonial legacies, alongside her own idiosyncratic process through the study of colour and the construction and deconstruction of shapeless figures. Her work is defined by the urgency of her mark-making and a direct approach in which the human figure becomes the primary vessel for translating vulnerability and identity into pictorial matter.
Her solo exhibitions include Origem (Ovar Museum, 2022), Diário (Associação 25 de Abril, Lisbon, 2023), Autorrepresentações – Linhas, formas e cores (Leiria Municipal Library Gallery, 2024), Diário II – Perceções do quotidiano (Coimbra Municipal Museum, 2024), and O regresso a África (Northern Regional Branch of the Medical Association, Porto, 2025).
She featured in the XII Vila Verde International Biennial of Young Art (2022) and was part of the touring group exhibition 25 de abril de 1974 – Vivências e memórias (2024–2025).
Her work Conversas sobre Deus (2022) features on the cover of the book Cara a cara. La creación del psicoterapeuta by Hélder Chambel, published in Spain by Agora Relacional Editores (2023). Her piece A festa appears on the cover of the poetry book Pedaços Meus by Dulcelina Silva Santos (2025), and Ritual covers the e-book Direito da Saúde – Regulação, novas tecnologias e medicamentos de alto custo, published by the Centre for Biomedical Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra (2026).
She contributed two works to the 11th edition of Artzine UltraViolenta (2020) and featured in Le Monde Diplomatiquewith the pieces We are humans, not numbers (October 2022), Autorretrato (March 2023), and Visceral n.º 8 (July 2023).
Honoured with an honourable mention in the Aveiro Jovem Criador competition (2019), Sara Miguel’s work is held in various public and private collections across the USA, France, the UK, Switzerland, and Spain, notably including the Associação 25 de Abril, the Ovar Museum, the Leiria Town Council, and EFCIS & Amílcar Pereira.
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Sara Miguel
BIOGRAPHY
Sara Miguel (Coimbra, 1997) is a visual artist who lives and works in Aveiro. She studied International Relations at the University of Coimbra.
Her practice emerges from an intersection of personal memory, fragility, and a dialogue with Africanism, family diaspora memories, and colonial legacies, alongside her own idiosyncratic process through the study of colour and the construction and deconstruction of shapeless figures. Her work is defined by the urgency of her mark-making and a direct approach in which the human figure becomes the primary vessel for translating vulnerability and identity into pictorial matter.
Her solo exhibitions include Origem (Ovar Museum, 2022), Diário (Associação 25 de Abril, Lisbon, 2023), Autorrepresentações – Linhas, formas e cores (Leiria Municipal Library Gallery, 2024), Diário II – Perceções do quotidiano (Coimbra Municipal Museum, 2024), and O regresso a África (Northern Regional Branch of the Medical Association, Porto, 2025).
She featured in the XII Vila Verde International Biennial of Young Art (2022) and was part of the touring group exhibition 25 de abril de 1974 – Vivências e memórias (2024–2025).
Her work Conversas sobre Deus (2022) features on the cover of the book Cara a cara. La creación del psicoterapeuta by Hélder Chambel, published in Spain by Agora Relacional Editores (2023). Her piece A festa appears on the cover of the poetry book Pedaços Meus by Dulcelina Silva Santos (2025), and Ritual covers the e-book Direito da Saúde – Regulação, novas tecnologias e medicamentos de alto custo, published by the Centre for Biomedical Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra (2026).
She contributed two works to the 11th edition of Artzine UltraViolenta (2020) and featured in Le Monde Diplomatiquewith the pieces We are humans, not numbers (October 2022), Autorretrato (March 2023), and Visceral n.º 8 (July 2023).
Honoured with an honourable mention in the Aveiro Jovem Criador competition (2019), Sara Miguel’s work is held in various public and private collections across the USA, France, the UK, Switzerland, and Spain, notably including the Associação 25 de Abril, the Ovar Museum, the Leiria Town Council, and EFCIS & Amílcar Pereira.
VISUAL ARTIST
FINE ARTIST
