Patrícia J. Reis

Bio

Patrícia J. Reis, born in Lisbon in 1981, is an installation artist and lives in Vienna (AT). She studied painting (ESAD, Superior School of Art and Design, Caldas da Rainha Portugal, 2004) and media art (Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011) and did her PhD at the University of Èvora in Portugal in 2016. Reis is a former researcher from the T E N N E N G A U E R K U N S T K R E I S – k u n s t r a u m p r o a r t e Schöndorferplatz 5, 5400 Hallein www.kunstraumproarte.com National Science Technology Foundation in Portugal and taught photography, video and digital art at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja in Portugal from 2006 to 2012. She is currently employed as an artist and lecturer in the Department of Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and also teaches at the Art University in Linz. Her artistic practice also focuses on feminist themes, questioning ascribed roles of women in relation to representation (in the digital image) as well as the lack of female participation and visibility behind productions of new technologies and art. Since 2012 she has been a board member of the collective Mz* Baltazar’s Lab.