Maria Bernardino (Macau, 1992) lives and works in Lisbon. He studied at ESAD-CR in Caldas da Rainha and at Ar.Co. Since 2013 he has exhibited his work regularly and participated in several artistic residencies. His work uses different mediums, such as drawing, sculpture, video, and more recently writing. He is interested in different subjects such as: the magical power learned from different peoples and cultures, therapeutic methods and alternative ways of meeting others. She is currently collaborating with the artist Luísa Abreu on the project Didático Obscuro, a project where artists question the act of playing and gaming as an artistic practice. 

In 2019 he won the Young Art Prize - Centro Português de Seriografia and completed an artistic residency at Atelier CPS where he created the Zodiac Series, an edition made up of 36 dedicated engravings to Zodiac themed.

"Zodiac was carried out along a journey of discovery of the elements that make up the horoscope: affinities (tendencies of each sign), aspects (distances between the angles of each planet ), planets (which live in parallel with the signs), houses (which once again divide the sky of the astrological chart) and the horizon line (from where the ascendant emerges, which makes the map precise). Interpretive freedom and the heritage of a long tradition governed by mathematically exact elements, Zodiac is the result of the journey that seeks to be similar to the astrologer's task — interpret, set the tone in an intuitive and inspired way , playing with the field of possibilities existing in the astrological universe." Maria Bernardino, Dec2021