PR & Communication: With a career that blends creativity with hospitality, Catarina Mendonça creates impact through thoughtful storytelling. She brings a constant creative and hands-on approach to brand marketing, supported by a strong background in hospitality Public Relations, Communication and Marketing Management, as well as Art Direction. Her expertise spans brand development, PR, digital strategy, and creative campaign management—all with an emphasis on cultural storytelling and relevance to drive genuine audience and engagement.Her passions include travel, food, art, design, architecture, and photography. Beginning her career in architecture refined her innate sensibility and appreciation for beauty. Alongside her love for creating art, this led to a deep passion for art direction and storytelling. Today, she is a visual creator working across photography, art direction, illustration, and graphic and editorial design—a beauty seeker and dreamer at heart.Catarina has lived and worked in New York, Vienna, London, and Treviso. Her experience with Four Seasons took her around the world, enriching her understanding of luxury and global brand standards. Her portfolio includes luxury hotel activations, contributions to communication campaigns across Europe, hotel openings, brand activations, and the development of editorial content, communication, and digital marketing strategies within the luxury space. Among her travels, she has gathered luxury experiences that have shaped both her memories and her professional growth—from the flawless service at Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris, to the infinity pool at Four Seasons Hong Kong overlooking the mesmerizing Victoria Harbour; the romantic charm of Belmond La Residencia in Mallorca; the warm, thoughtful service at Four Seasons Nam Hai in Vietnam; the grandeur of Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro; the Rossini she enjoyed on the terrace of Grand Hotel Timeo - A Belmond Hotel in Taormina; the meticulous guest care and architectural details at The Upper House in Hong Kong; and the iconic views she came to cherish during her many stays at Four Seasons Hotel New York. Together, these moments have sharpened her sense of a luxury. She loves wandering for hours through downtown Lisbon or Manhattan, discovering new places that inspire her or new restaurants to try.
Catarina's ART Her background in Architecture and Design has affected her way of seeing and doing Art. Catarina is a natural beauty seeker. Catarina finds her most inspiration in the whiteness. Using and playing with light as a material to generate shadows, playing with gold leaf to reflect the light, to create beauty and subtlety. Her work is both simple, yet complex. A result of Catarina's explorations and way of looking and questioning what surrounds her. Catarina believes art should be for everyone, and so she likes working with interior designers on request, direct sale with private clients or art galleries.
B A C K G R O U N D WORK
2022 - current | Associate Director of Public Relations and Communication at Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon, Portugal
2016 - 2022 | Public Relations and Communication Manager at Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon, Portugal
2013 - 2015 | Design Architect at Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA), Vienna, Austria
