Luisa Cunha

Luisa Cunha (born 1949) is a Portuguese painter and visual artist who won the EDP Foundation Art Grand Prize in 2021.

Unanimously chosen by the jury for the award, the members highlighted her "originality, experimental boldness, multidisciplinarity, and pioneering use of new languages", also noting her influence on younger generations.

The members of the jury also highlighted the way in which Cunha works with space and sound based on verbal language, in a permanent game of construction and deconstruction of meanings.

This was devoted solely to women artists and was part of the cultural programme of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2021.

[6][7][8] Cunha won the 2022 AICA Visual Arts award for the exhibition "Partitura #4", on display at the Galeria Miguel Nabinho in Lisbon, and for her contribution at the "Gabinete" space at MAAT, with the piece Não (No).