Pamina Sebastião
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Pamina Sebastião is a multidisciplinary artist from Angola that works with text, collage, video and drawings. Their work is linked to their social justice issues focusing on gender and sexuality activism as a result of the various LGBTIQ, feminist, and artistic collectives that they co-created and are part of. Their work has been exhibited at the Biennale the Lubumbashi (Congo; 2022); Museo Madre (Italy; 2023); Sex &Pubic Conference (South Africa; 2022); Castle Nuovo (Italy; 2022) among others. Sebastião holds a Master's in International Law and Relations with a focus on African Human Rights System from Lisbon University (Portugal; 2015); a Law degree from Catholic University (Angola; 2011). In 2023 the artist won a Queer people award for artist of the year and in 2022 won a seed award from the Prince Claus awards from the Netherlands and a Íris Association LGBTIQ community long-standing contributors award in Angola.