Marisa Ferreira (b. 1983, Portugal), lives and works between Oslo and London. With a background in visual art and art in public space, Marisa is currently a Phd candidate at the Royal College of Art, London with the thesis title: “Waste Matter. Public Art and the (Im)Materiality of Post-Colonial Memory”, and a research member of SpaceX - Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange.

Her work draws from childhood memories of being born in a context of loss and industrial decline that characterised the north of Portugal in the 1980s, and focuses on industrial ruins and processes of (de) industrialization and its harmful socio-ecological impact. Through practice-led and interdisciplinary methodologies, recent works investigate the intersection between colonialism and the Anthropocene to discuss themes of waste, entropy, space, justice, climate crisis, and extractivism.

Ferreira’s work is part of national and international art collections, such as Louis Vuitton Art Collection, Norlinda and José Lima Collection, Stavanger KunstMuseum, Norwegian Tax Authorities, REV Ocean, ConocoPhillips, Deloitte, Wintershall, and Messmer Foundation. Marisa is a member of the Norwegian Artists Association (NBK), the Norwegian Sculptors Association (NBF) and the Royal Society of Sculptors in the UK. Ferreira has received multiple art grants from the Norwegian Arts Council and her doctoral programme is fully funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).