Filipa Tojal is a Portuguese visual artist working primarily within painting. Currently living in Portugal (between Porto and Algarve), she has previously lived and worked in Japan for four years, in addition to extended stays in Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Filipa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, Portugal and completed a Master’s degree in Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan. Filipa is currently pursuing her doctoral studies as a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, Portugal. 

Her practice is grounded in landscape and her intimate exploration of it. The shapes and intricacies of each place she traverses appear sometimes concealed, sometimes pronounced, ranging from serene mountainside to complex wilderness. 

While using techniques that are Western as well as Eastern and exploring the distinctions between these two, she embraces a visual and meditative process poetically influenced by the ever-changing surroundings. Her formal work often manifests as site-specific installations or other delicate spatial concepts exploring the spatiality of painting, guided by an attentive sense of space and a sensitivity to materiality. The boundary between studio and exhibition setting is often blurred, as Tojal frequently employs intuitive display systems, reflecting her personal dispositions within the studio space. 

Filipa Tojal has exhibited her works both individually and collectively across Europe and Asia, as well as in the US and Australia. Her first solo exhibition in China launches in Spring 2024 at the gallery space in Beijing.