Margarida Correia was born in Lisbon, where she lives and works. She received an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Her work explores personal and collective memory, family relationships and identity, often in relation to broader historical and social contexts. Working primarily with photography, she uses portraiture, domestic spaces, objects and personal archives to explore the connections between individual experiences and shared histories.
Her solo exhibitions include MAAT/EDP Foundation in Lisbon, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids and A.I.R. Gallery in New York.
She has also held solo exhibitions at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Galeria 111, the Museum of São Roque and Galeria Monumental in Lisbon, the D. Diogo de Sousa Museum in Braga and the São João da Madeira Art Center in Portugal.
She has also participated in group exhibitions at White Columns, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Exit Art, ABC No Rio, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Dorsky Gallery and the Center for Photography at Woodstock in New York; the Griffin Museum of Photography, The Print Center, the Photographic Center Northwest and the Toledo Museum of Art in the United States; Gallery 44 in Canada; and Cokkie Snoei Gallery in the Netherlands.
In Portugal, she has also exhibited at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Espaço Novo Banco, Centro Cultural de Belém and Galeria Zé dos Bois, among others.
She has received grants and fellowships from the Puffin Foundation, A.I.R. Gallery, the Joyce Elaine Photography Grant and the Aaron Siskind Foundation in the United States, as well as DGArtes, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso-American Development Foundation, Instituto Camões, the Portuguese Centre of Photography and the Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal.