Lourdes Castro was born in 1930 in Funchal. Lives and works in Funchal since 1983.

Lourdes Castro attended ESBAL between 1950 and 1960. In 1957, she moves to Munich, leaving a year later for Paris where she resides for 25 years and where integrates the KWY group, with René Bertholo, Jan Voss, Christo, Gonçalo Duarte, José Escada and João Vieira.

In 1961, Castro produced the “Assemblages-collages” of painted aluminum objects that would have given rise, three years later, to her first serigraphy shades: projected shadows and contours of figures on canvas. In 1964, she produced the plexiglass shadows and in 1968 the lying shadows were embroidered on sheets. In 1973, continues her work with the Teatro de sombras - Sombras em movimento | Shadow Theater – Shadows in Motion.

Throughout her career, Lourdes Castro presented solo exhibitions in Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, among many others.

Lourdes Castro is represented in several national and international public collections: Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, among many others.

The artist represented Portugal at the XXIV São Paulo Biennial in 1998. In 2000, she was distinguished with the EDP Foundation Art Grand Prize and the CELPA/Vieira da Silva Prize Artes Plásticas in 2004. Recently, in April of this year, she was awarded the Medal of Cultural Merit by the Ministry of Culture of Portugal.

With Galeria Ratton, the artist has developed a set of works of Public Art in Tiles, that we can highlight: 1989, Banco Internacional de Crédito, Guimarães; 1999, Casa Museu Frederico de Freitas, Funchal; 2000, Banco Português de Investimento, Funchal; 2001, Pousada dos Lóios, Évora; 2019, Artistic intervention in tile “Aqui Agora” in the gardens of the Prime Minister’s Official Residence, Lisbon.