Maria Inês Lourenço (Mafra, 2001) is a portuguese visual artist currently working between Mafra and Caldas da Rainha. After she completed her degree in Communication Design at the António Arroio School of Arts, in 2021, she enrolled in the Visual Arts Bachelor's degree program at Lusófona University. For the work she has been developing, she received several awards in 2022 and 2024 from Lusófona University, as well as two Merit Scholarships from the same institution in 2023 and 2024. Currently she's pursuing a Master's Degree in Fine Arts, at the Design Upper School of Arts and Design, at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.

Her work focuses primarily on painting and drawing, exploring their nature and the ecosystem through which they are formed. She practices painting as a place that resides in everything that transforms, as a way of capturing the fleeting and the transitory. She explores it as a place born out of encounters, propagating the momentary and making permanent what is constantly in movement.

She has been exhibiting collectively since 2019 and held her first solo exhibition in 2023. The artist is interested in collaborations as well as artistic residencies.