Lisbon, 1998

Franco is a Portuguese visual artist working across painting and sculpture. Her work explores quiet relationships between material, light, and atmosphere. Working through layered surfaces and restrained gestures, Franco creates pieces that feel suspended in time, somewhere between memory, landscape, and abstraction. Rather than focusing on fixed narratives, her practice grows from observation, intuition, and the emotional resonance of places, textures, and fleeting moments. Forms often remain open and unresolved, allowing space for ambiguity and personal interpretation.

She studied Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and attended the Erasmus + programme at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. Her academic background also includes a Master’s degree in Management from Nova School of Business and Economics.

Individual Exhibition

2026 Reflexus, Galeria na Montra, Caxias, PT

Collective Exhibitions

2025 Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores, Santarém, PT

2025 Sinais de Esperança, Lisbon, PT

2025 MESCLA V, Livraria Verney, Oeiras, PT

2024 Galeria Monumental, Lisbon, PT

2024 Corrente de Ar, Lisbon, PT

2022 Antas da Cunha solidary auction, Lisbon, PT

2021 Mostra Museu, São Paulo, BR

2020 Edifício Arte Contínua, Oeiras, PT

2019 Lisbon´s University of Fine Arts Gallery, Lisbon, PT

2018 Montemor-o-Novo Municipal Gallery, Montemor-o-Novo, PT

Press

2023 Interviewed by the portuguese national television: TVI

2020 Interviewed by Vacant Museum

2020 Interviewed for Melancia Mag

2018 Collaborated for a book: “Mapping the Local (Belgrade/ Budapest/ Nova Gorica)”

2018 Featured in the catalogue “Entre Mãos: Cerâmica/ Escultura” by Lisbon´s Faculty of Fine Arts