Ana Amorim was born in São Paulo in 1956, into an Italo-Portuguese family. Her first encounters with art, in 1980, were through drawing. Her artistic concerns evolved toward conceptual practices, leading her to complete her first mental maps starting in 1988. In 2001, she wrote Art Contract, a pivotal political work in her career that marked a point of no return. With this contract, the artist committed not to collaborate with agents within the art system who received financial support from companies and corporations with questionable ethical reputations. In 2016, she suspended the restrictive conditions of this contract, and in 2019, for the first time in her career, she began collaborating with galleries and museums. Since then, her artistic interest has combined the small domestic stories of her life with the events and political changes of global history.