Francisca Gigante Godinho da Silva is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, holding a research scholarship from the Art History Institute and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P for the project "Tensions between National and International Dimensions at the Venice Biennale and documenta in Kassel: 1989-2019." She is a Visiting Student at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice (2023-2024) and Universität Kassel (2024-2025). Francisca is a member of the Contemporary Art Studies Research Group at the Art History Institute. She earned an MA in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York after completing a semester in Contemporary Art Histories in London. Prior to that, she obtained a BA in Communication from the Catholic University of Portugal.
Over the past seven years, she has worked between Venice and Lisbon as a cultural consultant for the Foundation La Biennale di Venezia (2017-2019), the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (2017-2019), MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (2018), and PARTE Portugal Art Encounters (2022). She is the Director of the cultural institution FITA - Friends In The Arts and the editor of FITA Magazine (2021-2024). Her publications include "Portrait Of The Artist As A Writer" (Book Cover Editora, 2022). Francisca was awarded the Seal of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives by Nancy Pelosi.
