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Marta de Menezes, marta@martademenezes.com, www.martademenezes.com, is a Portuguese artist (b.Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, and a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford. In recent years, she has been exploring the interaction between Art and Biology, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies can be used as new art medium, and proving that laboratories can be art studios. Besides researching into new ways to create art, Marta de Menezes is also an accomplished artist using traditional media, with paintings frequently representing insights from scientific research.
She is currently Artist-in-Residence at the MRC – Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London.

Artists’ statement (see website for more detailed information)
My work has been focused on the possibilities that modern biology offers to artists. I have been trying not only to portrait the recent advances of biological sciences, but to incorporate biological material as new art media: DNA, proteins and cells offer an opportunity to explore novel ways of representation and communication. Consequently, although lacking formal scientific training, my recent artistic activity has been conducted in research laboratories.

 

 

“Functional Portrait: Martin Kemp analysing a painting”
Marta de Menezes, 2002
Photography and functional magnetic resonance scans printed on canvas.
95 x 130 cm

 

“Functional Portrait: Self-portrait while drawing”
Marta de Menezes, 2002
Photography and functional magnetic resonance scans printed on canvas.
65 x 130 cm

 

“Inner Cloud”
Marta de Menezes, 2003
Precipitated DNA in ethanol.
Dimensions variable.

 

“Nature?”
Marta de Menezes, 2000
Installation at Ars Electronica 2000, Austria

 

“Nature?”
Marta de Menezes, 2000
Live B. anynana butterfly with modified wing pattern

 

“Nature?”
Marta de Menezes, 2000
live H. melpomene butterfly with modified wing pattern Picture 07 : nucleart 01a

 

“NucleArt”
Marta de Menezes, 2000-2002
Human cell with painted chromosomes
Frame from video-installation, projected onto 3D screens

 

“Proteic Portrait” – Study.
Marta de Menezes, 2002
Sequence of marta protein, and computer predictions of its structure, printed on canvas.
95 x 130 cm