Salomé Lamas studied cinema in Lisbon and Prague, visual arts in Amsterdam and is a doctoral candidate in contemporary art studies in Coimbra.
Her work has been shown in both art venues and film festivals such as Berlinale, BAFICI, Museo Arte Reina Sofia, FIAC, MNAC - Museu do Chiado, DocLisboa, Cinema du Réel, Visions du Réel, MoMA - Museu de Arte Moderna, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Harvard Film Archive, Museum of Moving Images NY, Jewish Museum NY, Fid Marseille, Arsenal Institut fur film und videokunst, Viennale, Culturgest, CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém, Hong Kong FF, Serralves Museum, Tate Modern, CPH : DOX, Center d'Art Contemporain de Genève, Bozar, Tabakalera, ICA London, Fundação TBA 21, Mostra de São Paulo, CAC Vilnius, MALBA, FAEMA, SESC São Paulo, MAAT, La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, among others.
Lamas has received several scholarships such as the Gardner Film Study Center Fellowship – Harvard University, Film Study Center – Harvard Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation- Bellagio Center, Brown Foundation – Dora Maar House, Fundación Botín, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Sundance, Bogliasco Foundation , The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Camargo Foundation and the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD.
The artist collaborates with the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola.