Born in Évora, Alice Geirinhas lives and works in Lisbon.

She graduated in Visual Arts – Sculpture (Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, 1984-1989), completed her Master in Contemporary Art Practices (Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, 2007-2009) and completed her PhD in Contemporary Art (College of Arts – Universidade de Coimbra, 2010-2013), with the thesis Como Eu Sou Assim, mapeamento visual na primeira pessoa: documento e índice, supervised by António Olaio and Carlos Vidal.

She has been exhibiting regularly since the mid-1980s. Her first solo exhibition was A nossa necessidade de consolo é impossível de satisfazer (Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, 1995).

Among group shows, she participated in Zapping Ecstazy (Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, 1996), X‐Rated (Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, 1997), Re‐produtores de sentido (SESC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2004), Portugal: 30 artists under 40 (The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway, 2004), Performances (Galeria de Maria do Carmo Oliveira, Porto, Antimonumento, Galeria António Henriques, Viseu, 2007), e.n.s.q.v.p (Clube Português de Artes e Ideias, Lisbon, 2013), Berger papers, an event promoted by the online publication Wrong Wrong (2017) and Amor Veneris – Viagem ao prazer sexual feminino (Palácio Anjos, Algés, 2022).

She has also exhibited as part of the artistic collective Sparring Partners, created in 1995, and which includes the artists João Fonte Santa and Pedro Amaral, and the collective Girlschool, created with the artist Susana Mendes Silva, dedicated to performance classes on art and sexuality.

She began her activity as an illustrator for the newspaper Combate (1988) and is the author of comic books and artist’s books, including A nossa necessidade de consolo é impossível de satisfazer (2003), Livro para colorir (single copy, 2006), Alice’s guest book (single copy, 2010), The cabinet of Dr Alice (Stolen Books, 2014) and Manifesto visual (Stolen Books, 2016).

From her participation and collaboration in fanzines, we highlight Vaca que veio do espaço, with João Fonte Santa (1985-1988), Facada mortal (4 issues), Joe índio (6 issues), Tom Sida magazine (1 issue), GrafPopZine (1 issue) and Gasp (1992), first Portuguese fanzine dedicated to female comics, edited by Diniz Conefrey.

She attended the Animation Cinema course at ACARTE (1988-1989), where she directed the film Uma história de amor, awarded at Cinanima (1990).

She has been teaching Illustration (ACARTE, 1995-1997 and Ar.Co 2000-2005) and Design and Multimedia Drawing (Faculdade Ciências e Tecnologias, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal).

She also dedicates himself to the realization of curatorial projects.