Born in Lisbon, Portugal
Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal
EDUCATION
1997 Degree in Stage Design, Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Lisbon
2002 Degree in Drawing and Fine Arts, AR.CO – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Lisbon
PRIZES / GRANTS
2003 CELPA/ Vieira da Silva Visual Arts Revelation Award, Lisbon
2004 CNC (Centro Nacional de Cultura) Grant for Young Artists, Lisbon
2005 Artist Residency Grant, CML/Budapest Galeria, Budapest
2006/07 International Studio Program, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2007 Herbert Zapp Preis für junge Kunst, Berlin
Work featured in:
Vitamin D2 New Perspectives on Drawing, Phaidon, London 2013
Rising- Young Artists to keep an eye on!, Daad books,Cologne, 2011
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 - (Upcoming) The Return of Judith, Alex Serra Galerie, Cologne
2026 - (Upcoming) RAIOS, Galeria 111, Lisbon
2026 - Aldebaran Caída por Terra/Aldebaran Fallen to the Ground, Centro de Cultura Contemporânea, Castelo Branco
2025 -Aldebaran Caída por Terra/Aldebaran Fallen to the Ground, MNAC- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon
2025 - Antares, Galeria Municipal Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon
2023 - Círculos Mágicos/Magic Circles, Casa das Artes, Tavira
2023 - Serpentina, Escola das Artes Art Center, UCP, Porto
2022 - Espelho/Mirror, Galeria 111, Lisbon
2021 - O Meu Rosto Está Aqui no Fogo-Fátuo/ My Face Is Here In the Wildfire,Winter Garden of the São Luiz National Theather, Lisbon
2018 - Fantasmagoriana, Galeria Ala da Frente, Vila Nova de Famalicão
2018 - Die Toteninsel, Solo Project at Drawing Room Lisbon 2018, Lisbon
2018 - Noir, Galerie Ar-Pab, Paris
2018 - All of Ford’s Photographs, Projecto Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon
2017 - Escura, Galeria do Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Guarda
2016 - Jardimdossos, Carpe Diem, Lisbon
2015 - Quarto Escuro, Sala do Veado, Lisbon
2015 - Old Red Tin Box, Donopoulos IFA, Thessaloniki
2014 – The Light in the Heart, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2014 - Banho de Sangue [Blood Bath], MACE, Elvas
2013 - Dodecahedron, Casa da Cerca Contemporary Art Space, Almada
2012 - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, Donopoulos IFA, Thessaloniki
2012 - A Dama Pé-de-Cabra/ Goted Foot Lady, Paula Rego and Adriana Molder (in a original Project conceived with Paula Rego), Casa das Histórias-Paula Rego, Cascais
2012 - Mad About the Boy, João Esteves de Oliveira Gallery, Lisbon
2011 - En la Casa del León, Oliva Arauna Gallery, Madrid
2011 - The rescue of a Portrait, Ozean, Berlin
2011 - Winter Was Hard, Beck & Eggeling new quarters, Düsseldorf
2011 - Bones in a Box, Bartha & Senarclens, Singapore
2010 - Adriana Molder, Presença Gallery, Porto
2009 - We have faces!, DSV Kunstkontor, Stuttgart
2008 - V, Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva Foundation, Lisbon
2008 - Cavaleira, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid
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2008 - he Passenger, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon
2007 - Der Traumdeuter, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2007 - A Madrugada de Wilhelm e Leopoldine, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon
2006 - Encontro Marcado, Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, Oviedo
2006 - Hôtel, Frühsorge Gallery, Berlim
2006 - No Place for a Woman, Emmerico Nunes Cultural Center, Sines
2005 - Galeria de Criminosos, Politécnica 38, Lisbon
2005 - Mr. Sophistication, Espaço # Artecontempo, Lisbon
2004 - Copycat, Presença Gallery, Porto
2003 - Copycat, Sacred Art Museum of Funchal, Madeira
Cartola, Presença Gallery, Porto
Downstream III, (Reis series) with Paloma Navares, Paço-de-Sousa Monastery, Penafiel
2002 - Old Lace, Galeria Castelo 66, Lagos
2002 - Câmara de Gelo, Sintra Modern Art Museum – Berardo Collection, Sintra
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - Não Navega. Cavalga, Centro Cultural e Congressos, Caldas da Raínha
2025 - BF25- Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira, Celeiro da Patriarcal, Vila Franca de Xira
2024 - Empatia e Resistência, Casa das Artes, Tavira
2024 - Porquê? – A Arte Contemporânea em Diálogo com o Pensamento de José Saramago, CCCCB, Castelo Branco
2023 - A Prática do Infinito Pela Leitura, Palácio Vila flor, Guimarães
2021 - 100 Anos, 100 Artistas, Gare marítima de Alcântara, Lisbon
2019 - Narradores de Historias, Palacio de Villadompardo, Jaén
2018 - Studiolo XXI, Desenho e Afinidades, Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, Évora
2018 - Metade do Céu, Fundação Arpad Szenes Vieira da Silva Foundation, Lisbon
2017 - Desenho e Animismo II, CIAJG, Guimarães
2017 - O Olhar da Sibila, Fundação Oriente, Lisbon
2016 - Plano de acção, Casa Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon
2015 - Hidden Forces, Wolfsburg Kunstverein, Wolfsburg
2014 - Flux, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2013 - The Picture Show, Galerie Jaap Sleper, Utrecht
2013 - Geist und Form- Ten Painters from Berlin, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington
2012 - FLIEGEN / FLYING, Küntlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2012 - Traços, pontos e linhas _Drawings of the António Cachola Collection, MACE, Elvas
2012 - The Last Painting in the Coca·Cola Foundation and DA2 Salamanca collections, La Regenta Art Center, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2011 -
Observers – Revelations, Transits and Distances, Berardo Museum, Lisbon
2010 - She is a Femme Fatale, Bearrdo Collection at FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Costa da Caparica, Lisbon
2009 - Amália – Independent Heart, Berardo Museum, Lisbon
2009 - Lá Fora, Museu da Presidência da Républica, Lisbon
2008 - O Presente Uma Dimensão Infinita – BESart Banco Espírito Santo Collection, Berardo Museum, Lisbon
2008 - Feitorias Contemporary Art Museum of Funchal, Madeira
2008 - In the Shadows, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
2008 - Atelier Berlin, Galeria Presença, Porto
2008 - Gegen den Strich - Experimentierfeld Zeichnung, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
Café Portugal, Design Factory, Bratislava
2007 - Gegen den Strich – Experimentierfeld Zeichnung, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Studio 1, Berlin
2006 -Territorio Oeste - Arte Portugués Contemporanéo, MACUF (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Union Fenosa), A Coruña
2005 - E=MC2, Museu Nacional da Ciência e da Técnica, Coimbra
2005 - O Corpo Impossível, National Palace of Queluz, Lisboa
2005 - O Nome que no Peito Escrito Tinhas, Temporary Exhibitions Gallery, Alcobaça Monastery, Alcobaça
2005 - Four Times One from Two Thousand and Six, Frühsorge – Gallery for Drawing, Berlin
2004 - Em Jogo / On Side, Visual Arts Center, Coimbra
2003 - Prémio CELPA / Vieira da Silva Artes Plásticas, Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva Fundation, Lisbon
2002 -Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, Sintra Modern Art Museum - Berardo Collection, Sintra
2002- Bolseiros e Finalistas da AR.CO, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
2001 - Parthenos, Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos
2000 - Bolseiros e Finalistas da AR.CO, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Budapest Galeria - HU
Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild - PT
CACE - PT
C.A.V. (Centro de Artes Visuais) - PT
Caixa Geral de Depósitos – PT
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa- Contemporary Art Collection - PT
Centro de Arte Oliva – Norlinda e José Lima Collection - PT
Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection - PT
Fundação Carmona e Costa - PT
Fundação EDP - PT
Fundação PLMJ - PT
Fundación Coca-Cola - ES
Fundació Sorigue - ES
Kupferstichkabinett-Staatlich Museen zu Berlin - DE
MAC(Berardo) Collection - PT
MACAM – Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins - PT
MACE- Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas - António Cachola Collection - PT
Novobanco Photography Collection- PT
Union Fenosa - ES
Private Collections: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, U.K, U.S.A and Singapore.
Catalogues (solo and collective)
(Upcoming) Antares, Texts by Golgona Anghel, Jan-Phillip Fruehsorge Nuno Crespo and Oscar Alonso Molina, Documenta, Lisboa, 2026
Aldebaran Caída por Terra, texts by Filipa Oliveira, Emília Ferreira and Maria Fiolmena Molder, Funcação Carmona e Costa/ Documenta, Lisboa, 2026
Metade do Céu/Half the Sky, textos de Pedro Cabrita Reis, Marina Bairrão Ruivo, Raquel Henriques da Silva, Carolina Machado, Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, 2019
Studiolo XXI – Desenho e Afinidades Studiolo XXI – Drawing and Affinities, texts by José Alberto Ferreira José, Jiménez and Maria de Fátima Lambert, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, 2019
Todas as Fotografias do Ford. Text by Adriana Molder, Projecto Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon, 2018.
Banho de Sangue [Blood Bath], Texts by Filipa Oliveira and Adriana Molder, Mace, Elvas, 2014.
Geist und Form-Ten Painters from Berlin, Text by Jurriaan Benschop, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, 2013.
Dodecahedron, text by Jeanette Zwingenberger, CMA, Almada, 2013.
A Dama Pé-de-Cabra, texts by Donald Kuspit and Helena de Freitas, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, 2012.
Winter Was Hard, texts by Gérard Goodrow and Adriana Molder, Beck& Eggeling, Düsseldorf, 2011.
We have faces!, texts by Andreas Schalhorn and Christiane-Valerie Gerhold, DSV Kunstkontor, Sparkasse Verlage, Stuttgart 2009.
Amália Coração Independente, texts by Rui Vieira Nery, João Pinharanda and Jean-François Chougnet, Berardo Collection, Lisbon 2009.
Lá Fora, text by by João Pinharanda, Presidência da República, Lisbon 2009.
Feitorias, text by João Miguel Fernandes Jorge, Contemporary Art Museum of Funchal, Madeira 2008.
In the Shadows, text by Justin Hoffman, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, 2008.
Café Portugal, texts by Ana Sousa Dias and Filipa Oliveira, Presidência da República, Lisboa 2008.
Der Traumdeuter, texts by Christoph Tannert and Jurriaan Benschop, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2007.
A Madrugada de Wilhelm e Leopoldine, texts by Adriana Molder, Filipa Oliveira and Gisela Rosentahl, Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon 2007.
Gegen den Strich, textos texts by Christian Schindler, Valeria Schulte- Fischedick, Christoph Tannert, Justin Hoffmann and Bert Papenfuß, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2007.
Encontro Marcado, texts by Adriana Molder and Nuno Crespo, PR, Oviedo 2006.
O Corpo Impossível, texts by José Gil and Nuno Crespo, Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon 2006.
Em jogo /On side, texts by Albano da Silva Pereira and Miguel Amado, CAV – Visual Arts Center, Coimbra 2004.
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, text by João Miguel Fernandes Jorge, Sintra Modern Art Museum – Berardo Collection, Sintra 2002.
Parthenos, Centro Cultural da Lagos, 2001.
Artist Books
Cartola, Galeria Presença, Porto 2003
Câmara de Gelo, Sintra Modern Art Museum- Berardo Collection Sintra 2002
Artist projects
Fantasmagoriana, Aparições, Espectros, Assombrações...
Fantasmagoriana series of paintings alongside Fantasmagoriana Ghost stories Compilation. Original text translated (and) with Afterword by Nuno Fonseca, Documenta,2018
Lettre International, Europas Kultur Zeitung, no 104, 2014