Lara Seixo Rodrigues^PT

Lara Seixo Rodrigues (b. Covilhã, 1979) is a proudly serrana (those who are native of mountainous regions) and claims that the constant curiosity that drives her comes from having grown up between two sets of cultures and customs. It was precisely this, her curiosity, that led her to Lisbon and Barcelona to study Architecture (FA-UTL and UPC-ETSAB). It also played the leading role in Lara’s interest in other artistic areas, including one that will last forever: Urban Art.

The combination of this passion and pride in being from the mountains gave rise to WOOL | Covilhã Arte Urbana (2011 -…) and since then a whole succession of other formats, geographies and audiences, examples of which are LATA 65 – Urban Art Workshop for the Elderly (2012-… ), ESTAU | Estarreja Arte Urbana (2016-…), FAZUNCHAR (Figueiró dos Vinhos, 2019-2023), ESPORO | Disseminação Cultural e Artística (2022) and WOOL + | Arte Urbana mais acessível (2023-24) which was awarded with the Prémio Acesso Cultura – Mickaella Dantas 2024.

In 2013/14, she was invited to organise the entourages of Portuguese artists performing in the internationally renowned projects TOUR PARIS 13 (France) and DJERBAHOOD (Tunisia).

Throughout his career, his interest in the arts in general has always remained, mirrored in the curation and production of various cultural actions and exhibitions. This is the case with the integrated project FIO (Coimbra, 2016 and 2019), GTM – Rota Sustentada (Gaia, 2017), the exhibition Livro Transformado (Coimbra, 2021), the public art installation Círculo Azul (Estarreja, 2021) and the participatory creation piece “Glossário” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the University of Aveiro (2024). She was also responsible for curating and organising the ATTERO exhibition by the artist Bordalo II (2017), which had more than 27,000 visitors.

In April 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, she launched “Sebenta da Quarentena | 40 ideas to seize the time”. A compendium of illustrations built with contributions from 40 authors, it proposes activities with encouraging and dynamic messages for the over-65s.

To manage all these facets, she founded MISTAKER MAKER | Plataforma de Intervenção Artística (2014), whose mission is to creatively foster the production and promotion of contemporary art exercises in all their forms of expression.

She is a member of the driving force behind the Ibero-American Urban Art Network, the Central Peripheries working group and, between 2018 and 2022, she was part of the Reflection Group on the Future of Portugal, made up of 45 Portuguese artists born after 1974, with no party affiliation, in close and exclusive dialogue with the President of the Republic, Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. In 2025, her career was honoured with the Cultural Merit Award by the Jornal do Fundão.

Above all else, Lara is someone passionate about what she does.