Joana Vasconcelos

[6] In 2018 Vasconcelos presented the retrospective exhibition "I'm Your Mirror" at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in Spain, having been the only Portuguese artist to accomplish the honor.

[7] In 2020, Vasconcelos created a massive site specific work, "Valkyrie Mumbet" at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Museum (MAAM) in Boston, MA.

The work is part of a series of large scale pieces the artist creates for specific spaces, in homage to inspiring women connected with that location.

[8] This particular work honors Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, an enslaved woman whose court battle for her freedom in 1781 helped make slavery illegal in Massachusetts.

[9] In 2024, she exhibited her Valkyrie Mumbet (2020) installation and towering Tree Of Life (2023), with its 110,000 hand-stitched fabric leaves at the launching of the newly opened Malta International Contemporary Arts Space (MICAS).