Martinha Maia, was born in S. Mamede do Coronado, in 1976. Lives and works in Porto. He graduated in Fine Arts at ESAD, Caldas da Rainha.

He has been developing work in different media such as Installation, video, performance and drawing.

Collective exhibitions: 30 artists under 40, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, 2004._ j´en rêve, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 2005._Muyethlek, Art Museum Maputo, Maputo, 2008._The “fluxus” thing 2, Exhibition and Performance Night in Fetish & Consumption, at Stuttgart Academy, in 2008._30 years of CAM, Performance cycles, CAM, Lisbon, 2013._From the fading factory to the fading factory. Baía do Tejo, Parque Empresarial Baía do Tejo (Quimiparque), Barreiro, 2014. Solo exhibitions:_landscape of feeling, Politécnica 38, Lisbon, 2005_Negro, Agência Vera Cortês, Lisbon , 2007._Sobre Barroco, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, 2007._ De sensu et sensato, Espaço Tranquilidade, Lisbon, 2012._Imaginarius, Centro de Artes de Ponte de Sor, Ponte de Sor, 2018.