Mariana Duarte Santos

Mariana Duarte Santos was born in 1995 in Lisbon, Portugal. She studied at an arts specialised high school and later went on to studying drawing and printmaking at university.  She’s had group and solo shows in Portugal, Spain, France, U.S.A., U.K. and in Ireland. Mariana started painting murals in 2019 and to date has over 70 murals, throughout Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg, France, Italy, Denmark and Ireland. Her work is figurative in nature, centred mainly around painting, drawings and printmaking but influenced by other artistic areas such as cinema and literature. When it comes to public art, the themes she works on are mostly focused around the concepts of memory, collective identity and local stories, thus archive pictures are key in her mural work.