He earned a degree in Fine Arts from the Porto School of Fine Arts and has been exhibiting his work since 1976. He lived and worked in Porto, where he held his first solo exhibition, *Painting and Drawing*, in 1981.

While still a student, she was invited by Ângelo de Sousa to serve as a teaching assistant for the Printmaking course, a subject she taught for four years. She has exhibited regularly since 1976, the year she held her first group exhibition at the Aveiro Museum.

"When I create figures that include these beings whom people define as women—because they have certain features that resemble the figure we know as a woman—I am always aware that they do not exist, but that they come from somewhere." Armanda Passos, December 2002, excerpt from an interview by Nuno F. Santos.

In 2011, she was honored by the University of Porto with two exhibitions: “Reservas” and “Obra Gráfica,” the only ones dedicated to a visual artist as part of the celebrations marking the University of Porto’s centennial. In addition, the book *Armanda Passos Centenário U.P. – Uma Retrospetiva*, by José-Augusto França, Manuel Sobrinho Simões, and Luís de Moura Sobral, was published. On June 8, 2012, she was awarded the Commendation of the Order of Merit by the President of the Republic, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, at the Belém Cultural Center.

The artist has also received other awards throughout her career, such as the Ministry of Culture Award, presented by Prime Minister Mário Soares and Deputy Prime Minister Carlos Mota Pinto (1984, Lisbon), at the “Tribute by Portuguese Artists to Almada Negreiros” exhibition in 1984 in Lisbon, and an honorable mention at the 8th Autumn Salon — Portuguese Landscape in 1987, at the Estoril Casino Gallery; the 3rd J. Pérez Villaamil Artistic Drawing Prize in 1990, at the Bello Piñeiro Municipal Museum; and the Prix Octogne in 1997, in Charleville, France.

He represented Portugal at various international events, including the “Portuguese Contemporary Artists” exhibition at the World Trade Center (New York, 1985), the 5th Biennial of European Graphic Artin Heidelberg in 1988, in Poland, theExposition Internationale de la Gravure – Intergrafia 91 in 1992, also in Poland, in Katowice, and atthe Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, also in 1992, in La Louvière, Belgium.

In 2005, she conceived and built the Casa Armanda Passos in Porto, designed by Álvaro Siza. It is a home-studio intended to bring together, preserve, and make accessible to the public the works the painter had collected throughout her life. “While she was alive, the house was Armanda. And so it will remain.” (Álvaro Siza, 2022).

He died on October 19, 2021, at the age of 77, following a prolonged illness.