Isidora Correa Allamand

Isidora Correa is a Chilean visual artist and researcher based in Porto, working across installation, sculpture, video, sound and bio-art. Her work focuses on the ecological, historical and geopolitical dimensions of territorial contexts. Through fieldwork and situated research, she examines material traces of anthropogenic impact to question systems of domination and the notion of progress through extractivism, proposing alternative narratives of ecological responsibility and interspecies coexistence.

She is currently a researcher at CITAR, and a Doctoral candidate in the Science and Technology of the Arts program at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2023-ongoing). She holds a Master's Degree in Visual Arts from the University of Chile (2018), and a Bachelor's in Visual Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2000).

Her work has been exhibited in cultural institutions and galleries including Semibreve Festival (2025); the Saco Biennial, Antofagasta, Chile (2025); National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile, (2025, 2018); Patricia Ready Gallery, Santiago, Chile, (2022); Cultural Center of Spain, Santiago, Chile (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile; National Center for Contemporary Art Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile, (2018); National Museum of La Paz, Bolivia, (2016); Flora Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia, (2013); Arco, Madrid, Spain, (2013); Museum of Solidarity, Santiago, Chile, (2011).

She has participated in artistic creation residencies at Isla, Antofagasta Chile, (2024), Zeitgeist, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (2021); WCS Karukinka Park, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Chile, (2019); Urra, 6th version, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (2015); AIR Glenfiddich, Highlands, Scotland, (2014); and Flora Ars Natura, Bogotá, Colombia, (2014).

She has received several scholarships, grants for artistic creation, and prizes including the FCT Scholarship for Doctoral Research (2024), Chile Crea Scholarship, (2021); Fondart Acquisition of Work, MINCAP Collection, (2020); Karukinka Park Residency Grant, Cultural Center of Spain, (2019); Sculpture Biennial Award for Best Exhibition of the Year, (2018); Dirac Funds, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (2016); Glenfiddich Residency Production Grant, Scotland, (2014); Fondart for Creation Grant, Ministry of Arts and Culture, Santiago, Chile, (2013); Nomination for the Altazor Award for Best Exhibition of the Year (2012); 2nd Prize CCU Grant, (2011); and Fondart for Creation Grant, Ministry of Arts and Culture, Santiago, Chile, (2010).