She received a PhD in ethnology from the University of Paris VII in 1983 and was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1989 to 1991.

From Sonia Delaunay to Ângela Ferreira, 1916-2018, which brought together more than a hundred works by women artists, produced over the last century in Portugal.

In 2021, her work was included in another exhibition at the Gulbenkian, entitled Tudo O Que Eu Quero (All I want), which was part of the cultural programme of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

In 1977 she made Woman-Earth-Mother, a powerfully symbolic work which is now unanimously considered as a fundamental of feminism in Portugal, combining the political consciousness of gender with the vocabulary of international pop art, in an explicit representation of the sex of a woman.

In the same year she stood, also unsuccessfully, for the Earth Party (Partido da Terra) in the Portuguese national election.