She currently lives and works in Lisbon.
She studied sculpture (1983) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Since 2003, she has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.
In 2007, she was invited to represent Portugal at the Venice Biennale, Italy. She also participated in the Istanbul Biennale (1999), Turkey; the São Paulo Biennale (2008), Brazil; and the Gothenburg Biennale (2015), Sweden.
In 2015, she won the Novo Banco Photo Prize, Lisbon, Portugal.

She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in public and private institutions worldwide, including:
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Marlborough Contemporary, London
Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Frieze Art Fair, London
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA
Hélio Oiticica Art Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
MARCO, Vigo, Spain
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Parasol Unit (2008), London

Her work is part of several public collections, including:
CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
Market Gallery Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
The Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
MEIAC – Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England