Maria Gomes (b. 2001) is a Portuguese artist, currently based in London, working between painting and sculpture.
Gomes graduated from the MA Painting course at the Royal College of Art, London (UK), in 2025, where she was awarded the Ali H Alkazzi Scholarship. She previously studied at Chelsea College of Arts, graduating in 2022. Gomes has exhibited in London and internationally.
Gomes explores perception, spatiality, and the gaze - framing painting as a site of encounter in which both subject and viewer become mutually aware. By placing suggestive, amorphous forms within highly organised environments, she evokes the performativity often associated with the experience of womanhood. These forms are made to perform repeatedly for and in front of one another, a dynamic that extends into the relationship between her paintings and sculptures. Through this interplay, the gaze is redistributed multilaterally — moving across viewers and objects without hierarchy or fixed orientation. Her work reflects the anxieties of contemporary life and creative practices, while critically interrogating the complexities of self-presentation.