Biography
Studied cinema in Lisbon and Prague, visual arts in Amsterdam and completed the coursework stage of Ph.D in film /contemporary art studies in Coimbra.
Her work has been screened both in art venues and film festivals such as Berlinale, Locarno, BAFICI, Fid Marseille, Museo Arte Reina Sofa, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, DocLisboa, Cinema du Réel, Visions du Réel, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Harvard Film Archive, Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Moving Images NY, Jewish Museum NY, Fid Marseille, Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst, Viennale, Culturgest, CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Hong Kong Film Festival, Museu Serralves, Tate Modern, CPH: DOX, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, Bozar, Louvre, Tabakalera, ICA London, TBA 21 Foundation, CAC Vilnius, MALBA, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, FAEMA, SESC Brazil, MAAT, La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, among others.
Lamas was granted several fellowships such as the Gardner Film Study Center Fellowship – Harvard University, The Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio Center, Brown Foundation – Dora Maar House, MacDowell, Bogliasco Foundation, Camargo Foundation, Civitelle Ranieri, Yaddo, Civitella Ranieri, Fundación Botín, Foundación La Caixa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Sundance, Luso-American Development Foundation – FLAD, Centre National des Arts Plastiques – CNAP, Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD.
Lamas is an educator in various contexts and geographies and is regularly invited to present master classes, intervene in seminars, workshops, conferences, juries, in several art, film and teaching institutions.
She is an author of diverse essays on contemporary art/cinema, mainly dealing with subjects related to her own work and Lamaland often hosts a range of academic trainees and professional internships.
She is adjunct professor at ESAD.CR School of Arts and Design, associate professor at Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, collaborates with the School or Arts of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola, Diriyah Art Futures Center. In 2000/21 she was Harvard Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard University and in 2023 she was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.
She collaborates with the production company O Som e a Fúria and Primeira Idade and is represented by Kubik Gallery and Galeria Miguel Nabinho.
After being in the direction of APR – Portuguese Director’s Association. In 2020 she founded, with the support of a group of artists, AAVP – Portuguese Association of Visual Artists in Portugal.