Cláudia R. Sampaio

Cláudia R. Sampaio was born in Lisbon in 1981 and is a poet and visual artist. She studied at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and has worked as a screenwriter for film and television. She has published seven poetry books to date: Os dias da corja (2014), A primeira urina da manhã (2015), Ver no escuro (2016), 1025mg (2017), Outro nome para a solidão (2018), Já não me deito em pose de morrer (2020) and Uma mulher aparentemente viva (2022). She wrote the play Ode inacabada at the invitation of Culturgest for the 10th edition of the Panos festival (2017), and the play A loucura é o mais credível oráculo for Escola de Mulheres (2021). In addition to Portugal, her work has also been published in Brazil in the trilogy Inteira como um coice do universo and in various international poetry anthologies. She was one of the Portuguese poets invited to the Guadalajara Book Fair, Mexico, in 2019. Her visual art was featured at the 2020 edition of the Outsider Art Fair in New York and has since appeared in various group exhibitions, including Procissão - louvar e santificar at MAAT (2024). Her works, across their various forms, are held in numerous private art collections. Cláudia has been represented by the MANICÓMIO collective since 2019.