Who AM I?

Julia Da Costa, is an artist from the Joia Gallery – Ourivesaria de Sentimentos.

She grew up in Vichy (Auvergne, France) and moved to Lisbon in 2016.

Julia da Costa (she/her) is a French artist based in Lisbon. She mostly works and experiments with different technics and mix media, such as ink, acrilyc, pencil, collage or digital. Her projects questions mental health, identity, feminism and the psychology of Self. She is studying Clinical Psychology. She’s interested in Psycho Education, a discipline of Psychology intending to explain and educate the population about mental health. Julia Da Costa intends to destigmatize mental diseases.

She likes doodling and telling stories about she sees and live everyday. She is currently working on cartoon projects.

Since 2019, she works at the gallery Joia – Ourivesaria de Sentimentos with Vital Lordelo.

In 2018, she accomplished an artistic residency in Con Artist NYC, New York.
She participated to exhibitions in NYC, France and Portugal.