Regina Costa was born in Lubango, Angola.
Lives and works in Cascais, Portugal.
She emigrated to Brazil at a young age, where she took her first steps in artistic training. She holds a degree in Arts from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Bahia, and later continued her studies in Barcelona, Spain, where she obtained a DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies), integral part of doctorate level programs at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, Catalonia.
Between 2002-2008 was Assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal – taught BA courses in Art and Design, Communication and Multimedia Design.
In her most recent work, among other approaches, she employs the “printed medium” in its expanded field across multiple supports to investigate the idea of the border/frontier as a spatial and symbolic category, conceived as a grey zone of unstable and diverse references — geographic, political, economic, cultural, etc. — which operate as instruments capable of shaping modes of perceiving the world, the constitution of the subject, and their relation with the other.
She has participated in several national and international exhibitions. Most recently, at the Bucharest Biennale for Contemporary Art – BB11, Bucharest (2024), Romania, with the support of Instituto Camões, I.P.
Exhibitions: International Print Triennial Krakow (2024, 2015, 2012, 2009), Poland; NA-INMENSO. La palabra en el arte, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia (2024), Spain; NA-INMENSO. La palabra en el arte, La Casa de las Luces, MUVIM, Valencia (2024), Spain; Ibero-American Biennial of Graphic Art – Cáceres (2023, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011), Spain; International Print Triennial Krakow–Falun (2016–2017), Sweden; MIRROR – Face to Face. Italian and Portuguese Artists Exhibition (2019), Italy and Portugal; Biennale Internazionale di Carta/Papermade di Schio (2018), Italy; International Douro Print Biennial (2023, 2015, 2013, 2011), Portugal; 3rd Bahia Biennial. Museu Imaginário do Nordeste | Department of Post-Racialism | Section: Africa, curated by Ayrson Heráclito (2014), Brazil; International Print Triennial Istanbul (2013), Turkey; in.print.out – Grafik in/auswending. International Print Triennial Vienna (2013), Austria; 1st International Contemporary Engraving Festival, FIG Bilbao (2012), Spain; 16th International Cerveira Biennial (2011), Portugal; Multiple Matters, Print Concepts. International Print Triennial Vienna (2010), Austria; Grafik Ohne Grenzen. International Print Triennial Oldenburg (2010), Germany.