Anastasia carpio
Based in Lisbon, Portugal, this visual artist investigates tension, memory, and transformation through materials that stretch, shift, and evolve. Her work emerges from a life of displacement—moving across countries and cities—and the deep need to dialogue with her roots.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where her foundation in typography and design began. For over twelve years, she has taught typography at renowned institutions, an experience that sharpened her ability to see beyond form—into structure, balance, and the plastic potential of everyday materials.
This background profoundly influences her artistic practice. She approaches organic and flexible materials—textiles, elastic bands, found objects—with a designer's precision and an artist's sensitivity. Her work explores the space between rigidity and adaptability, absence and presence, the familiar and the unknown.
Conceptually, her pieces reconstruct fragments of memory and childhood vulnerability, inviting viewers into an intimate dialogue with impermanence and renewal. Currently based in Lisbon, her practice continues to transform—mirroring her own process of healing, becoming, and finding equilibrium where movement becomes growth.
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Artist Residency 2026
Casa Textil [3 months], Buenos Aires, Argentina
Artist Residency 2022
Duplex Air, [4 months], Lisbon, Portugal
Artist Residency 2019
Museo Alejandro Otero [3 months], Caracas, Venezuela
Solo Exhibitions
2019
“Progeny, past and present” Artist residency at the Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, Venezuela
2017 - 2018
“Una mirada ochenta caracteres”, Design Museum Carlos Cruz Diez, Caracas, Venezuela
Group Exhibitions
2024
Contextile 2024 “Contemporary Textile Art Biennial” Guimarães, Portugal
2023
Obrigadissimo, Duplex Air, Lisbon Portugal
Taking The Light Out Of The Prism, Lisbon, Portugal
2022
Mauritius International Art Fair (MIAF2022), Mauritius
Contextile 2022 “Contemporary Textile Art Biennial” Guimarães, Portugal
Art Connects Women – 5th Edition International Art Exhibition, Dubai, UAE
2018
Exhibit/Auction “Una obra para Venezuela”, in alliance with the American Venezuelan Engagement Foundation & Yellow Bench Studio, Miami, Florida
2017
“Itinerarios”, Okyo Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
2016
“Tercera Bienal Nacional de Artes Gráficas Venezuela, homenaje al maestro Alirio Palacios”, Design Museum Carlos Cruz-Diez, Caracas, Venezuela
Finished workshops in lithography, soft sculpture, weaving and engraving at the UNAM, Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Invited to participate in “Arte y ruido”, lithography, engraving & photography Mexico City, Mexico
“Códice XXIII”, Colectivo litográfico, “Huella de piedra”, CDMX, México
2014
Invitation to participate as a jury in the “Salón Nacional de la Coexistencia”, 2014, 2016 & 2018 Anna Frank Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela
Open Call to Street Artist in the Art Basel week 2014, Miami, Florida
2012
Best Poster Design “Mention illustration” in “Salón Nacional de la Coexistencia” Category Graphic Design, Anna Frank Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela
2011
Exhibit/Auction for breast cancer, benefit to Seno Salud, Caracas, Venezuela
