Beatriz Manteigas is a Portuguese visual artist born in Lisbon in 1990.
In 2022, she completed her PhD in Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, supported by a scholarship from the FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology. She also holds a Master’s degree in Artistic Anatomy (2014) and a degree in Painting (2012) from the same institution, including study exchanges at the University of Porto (2011-2012), the Royal Academy of St. Petersburg, Russia (2011), and the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2010-2011). She briefly resided and worked in Düsseldorf (2012) and London (2010).
In 2016, she co-founded Associação Quinta das Relvas, an ecological farm where she resides and works, serving as the current president of the board and coordinator of the Arts Department. That same year, she became a collaborating researcher at CIEBA – Center for Research and Studies in Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Between 2009 and 2014 she also worked as illustrator for children’s books, magazines and newspapers such as Diário de Notícias.
She has exhibited and presented her work extensively since 2009, both nationally and internationally in countries such as Belgium, Brazil, England, Scotland, Spain, Turkey and the USA. She has also participated in artist residencies in Brazil, Greece, Portugal and Spain and her work is represented in private and public collections in Portugal and abroad. 
In 2024, she will be an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited (NY) with the support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and PLMJ Foundation, and in 2025 at The International Speculative Ecologies Program by Labverde, at the Amazon Rainforest (BR).