About

Aheneah is Ana Martins, a Portuguese textile artist, researcher, and material maker based in New York. Working at the intersection of traditional textile and contemporary art, she creates new textile structures using fiber, bioplastics, and unconventional, repurposed materials. Her practice explores how repetition shapes form and how fragile elements transform into resilient structures through aggregation and manipulation. Fascinated with dualities - soft vs hard, structured vs fluid, delicate vs robust - Aheneah explores the coexistence of opposing forces in her work.

She has created public art installations across Europe and exhibited in the U.S. and Europe, with recent New York presentations at the NARS Foundation, L’Space Gallery, and the United Nations. Her work is held in collections including GALP, Taguspark, Casa das Artes Bissaya Barreto, Liebesbier Hotel, and TOUS. Her practice has been featured by Designboom and This Is Colossal, as well as in the book Unravelling Women’s Art.

Aheneah is currently completing her MFA in Textiles at Parsons as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholar.

Contacts

→ aheneah@gmail.com
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Group Shows 

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