Graça Pereira Coutinho

About the Artist

Graça Pereira Coutinho’s oeuvre rose to prominence in the 1970s and follows the principles of conceptual art across a multiplicity of media.   

Graça was born in Lisbon, where studied Sculpture at the local School of Fine Arts. She moved to London in 1971 to study at the Saint Martin’s School of Art with a post-graduation Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship.  

Graça has shown her work at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon; the Serralves Foundation, in Porto; the Osaka Museum of Contemporary Art, in Japan; the São Paulo Biennial and the Museu Histórico Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, in Brasil.  

The store at the Albuquerque Foundation features a sculptural teapot by Graça that challenges the object’s logic and functionality.