Joana Teixeira is a visual artist based in Lisbon. Her mixed-media practice weaves together painting, collage, and sometimes animation, and she gravitates towards projects with a focus in collaboration and accessibility.
After graduating in 2014 from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, she has worked as a graphic artist and animator in independent animated films, such as The Cicle (dir. Zepe), Suspension (dir. Luís Soares), and Percebes (dir. Laura Gonçalves and Alexandra Ramires), and has participated in collective exhibitions such as OCCUPARE (2014), an initiative to intervene in abandoned spaces, Making is Colder than Capital (2024), São ou Não (2025), and the collective installation Árvore Mistela (2025). In 2022, she contributed to the project TWND with The Great Good Place, which reimagined abandoned storefronts as spaces for public art. She has also participated in collective initiatives at Atelier Artéria, such as Arte à Tarde (ongoing), and the participatory art project Participar para Não Esquecer (2024-25).
A recurring method in her painting practice is the act of collecting pieces of discarded paintings, as fragments of her past, and reclaiming them in new ways. She often embraces imperfection, allowing rough edges, visible seams, and subtle signs of the wear and tear of time. Her process is personal and restorative, serving as a means to search for new modes of being by embracing emotion and the impermanence of self.
