short biography

Paula Rego (b. 1935, Lisbon; d. 2022, London) was a painter and graphic artist, based in London.
She worked with political collages and later with figurative painting, in which she dealt with the woman within society. She painted domestic scenes of everyday life that ostensibly radiated normality and innocence, but at the same time threatened to open up abysses.
Paula Rego studied at St Julian's School, Carcavelos and at Slade School of Art, London.

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collection/s

Abbot Hall Art Gallery Arts Council Collection, London Bristol Museum & Art Gallery British Council Visual Arts, London British Museum, London Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon Frissiras Museum, Athens Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Jerwood Space, London Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City Leeds Art Gallery Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museu do Chiado, Lisbon National Gallery, London National Portrait Gallery, London Rugby Museum and Art Gallery Saatchi Gallery, London Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto Tate Collection The Whitworth, Manchester Wolverhampton Art Gallery Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
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galleries

Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne James Hyman Fine Art, London Marlborough Contemporary, London
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solo exhibition

Homage to Paula Rego

08. Jul 2023 24. Jul 2024
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
exhibition page
  • 26. Jan 01. Apr
    Paula Rego Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
  • 01. Feb 25. May
    Paula Rego National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
  • 03. Oct 06. Nov
    20:TWENTY Cornerhouse Manchester
  • 06. Aug 24. Sep
    Paula Rego Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
  • 02. Jul 24. Jul
    The Print Show Kettle´s Yard, Cambridge / UK °
  • 01. Jul 28. Sep
    Paula Rego The Glucksman, Cork
  • 11. Jun 07. Oct
    Paula Rego Abbot Hall Art Gallery