Carolina Piteira started a Painting Degree in Portugal, at Universidade Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa in 2008, as part of her degree she joined the Erasmus Exchange Programme at University of East London where she transferred and finished her course with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Arts along with the Limehouse Arts Foundation Studio Award in 2012.
In 2014 she was nominated by the Ministry of Economy of Portugal an Ambassador of "Portugal Sou Eu", to represent and support the Portuguese market as an emerging artist abroad.

​Since she finished her studies, Piteira has won several prizes including the DegreeArt Signature Art Award and has exhibited in London, Paris, Rome, Athens and Lisbon with various group and solo shows.

​In 2015 she was invited to be part of "Imago Mundi" Collection, works commissioned and collected by Luciano Benetton.
Her solo show titled "The Encounter" with large-scale works raised funds to start the "Portugal Genial" Foundation dedicated to contributing to the development of artists of genuine distinction in their particular fields.

Throughout her career, the artist has developed a variety of subjects, all of which however offer an expansive image of the world we currently live in, our shared joys and struggles as humans and ultimately, a view into our time and humanity. These paintings tell their own story, each and everyone of them, but together they tell the story of our world and our time while capturing the timelessness of humanity.

In this storytelling, the materials are just as important as the content. Carolina Piteira combines techniques on canvas, making use of acrylics, oils, pastels, coloured pencils, and incorporating tactile elements such as paper, fabric and organic materials through collage. Her work is based on upcycling and reuse techniques, which add contrast and new layers of expression to the work, allowing the materials to tell a story themselves. The colour, exuberant, expressive and unrestrained, is perfectly mastered and ingrains the works with a sense of life and intensity that transcends reality.

As much as the world gives to Carolina Piteira’s works, she aims to give back. Either through a greater awareness of the themes developed or through more substantial contributions, Piteira finds it important that her work not only tells a story but that it has real, positive impact on the world that inspired it.