Rita Cachão is an artist and researcher. She holds a BA (2003) in Fine Arts – Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, an MA (2008) in Design from the University of Wales, and a PhD (2015) from the University of Plymouth, with the thesis An Ontology of Space: Methodological Recursiveness and the Diagram, supported by a research grant from the FCT. She developed this research within the Transtechnology Research group, of which she remains a member as a postdoctoral supervisor. She lectured at Cardiff Metropolitan University (2015–2017). In 2019, she co-founded the Faculty of Minor Disturbances, a research project grounded in an artistic practice that seeks to capture the principles of Pataphysics. This project gave rise to the informal research collective Vagab(o/u)nds Research, where she acts as principal investigator. In this context, she has published academic articles, participated in conferences, and delivered public presentations. In 2024, she co-founded Estúdio Trama Riscada – Associação de Artes Impressas, where, as president, she is responsible for the development of creative and research projects.

Her main research interests and artistic practice—understood as inseparable—are centred on a transdisciplinary exploration that fosters creativity and speculative perspectives in the study of the concept of space and its material traces. This interest unfolds across sculpture (in site- and place-specific works), curatorial practice (including production and cultural mediation in projects such as Luzboa by Extramuros – Associação Cultural para a Cidade, and in collaboration with the Portuguese Committee for the International Polar Year through the project Ectopia, Experimental Art Laboratory, based at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science), territorial intervention (through artistic residencies with Associação Luzlinar, in the context of projects involving gardens and forest environments), and the exploration of printmaking as a spatial practice.