Graça Magalhães is Assistent Professor in the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro and Ph.D. student in Design with a thesis named A frágil totalidade: o que significa para o design o desenho? (The fragile totality: what does mean drawing to design?).   She participated in national and international congresses and academic publications about drawing and image.  She works as artist in Portugal and other countries.

She got degree in Art – Painting from ESBAP, University of Oporto.  From 1987 to 1990 she got a scholarship of the Portugal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and  Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to study History and Conservation of Art in Rome and Florence (Italy).  From 1990 to1993 she got a scholarship to the Monbusho (Ministry of Education of Japan) to get her M.A. in Drawing (Lithography) at the Tama Art University, Tokyo (Japan).  From 1993 to 2000 she worked  for the Catholic University of Oporto in the installation’s project of the School of Arts