About

Aheneah (Ana Martins) is a Portuguese textile artist, researcher, and material maker based in New York. Working through textile as a meeting point between past and future, she develops a sculptural language that hovers between body, architecture, and organism – pushing familiar elements toward the strange, the unresolved, and the sublime.

Born during the transition from analog to digital, Aheneah grew up aware that materials, technologies, and ways of seeing are never fixed. That instability continues to shape her practice today. She often returns to techniques such as crochet, weaving, and bobbin lace with the curiosity of encountering them for the first time, asking what they might become when released from tradition, function, or expectation. Through repetition, accumulation, structure, light, tension, and scale, she pushes materials beyond their expected qualities, allowing them to become uncanny, almost like remnants from an unknown future.
 

Aheneah has exhibited in the U.S. and Europe, with recent New York presentations at L'Space Gallery and the United Nations. In 2024, she received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to pursue an MFA in Textiles at Parsons School of Design. Her practice has been featured by Designboom, This Is Colossal, and in the book Unravelling Women's Art.

Contacts

→ aheneah@gmail.com
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Group Shows 

Lisbon Design Week, PT, 2026
Fibration III, L'Space Gallery NY, 2025
Beauty & Splendor, NARS Foundation NY, 2025
United Nations NY, 2025
Ethereal Garden PT, 2024

Marmotto PT, 2023 
Land, Wool Innovation Week PT, 2023

Moliere's 400th Anniversary FR, 2022 

Icônes by Susan Kare FR, 2022

L'art Urbain Au Féminin FR, 2022


Collections

GALP – Energy Company, PT
Taguspark – Science and Technology Park, PT
Bissaya Barreto Foundation, PT
Liebesbier Art Hotel, DE 
TOUS – Jewelry Brand, PT
Festival International de Géographie, FR 
UBBO – Retail and Cultural Complex, PT
Festival Boreal ES