Ana Jotta was born in Lisbon in 1946, where she lives and works.

After studying at the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon and the École d'Arts Visuels de l'Abbeye de la Cambre in Brussels, she worked as an actress and set designer (1976-79) with Produções Teatrais (Teatro Universitário, Lisbon). Since the 1980s, she has concentrated her activity on the visual arts and has been a regular presence at the main art fairs and biennials (ARCO, Brussels, Johannesburg, Barcelona, etc.). Ana Jotta has built her work in a sequence of advances that incorporate a kind of erasure: of her previous steps, of modernist ideology and post-modern mythologies, and of the notion of authorship - either by deconstructing or reconstructing it, she has tried to dismantle the idea of a coherent or univocal style.

Ana Jotta has exhibited her work at the most prestigious foundations and institutions such as Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France; Etablissement d'en face, Brussels and at Malmo Konsthall, Malmo. She has also shown her work at Culturgest Porto with the exhibition CASSANDRA, Culturgest Lisboa with A Conclusão da Precedente, Museu de Serralves with Rua Ana Jotta and also at Casa de São Roque with the exhibition INVENTÓRIA. In 2013, she was awarded the EDP Foundation Art Grand Prize and in 2014 the AICA Prize. Later, in 2017, Ana Jotta received the Rosa Shapire Award, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.