1973 born in Lisbon, Portugal

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2003 ll MFA, Photo and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, NYC
1999 ll AIAS Exchange Program, Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, NYC
1998 ll Fine Arts, Ar.Co, Lisbon

Grants

2005 ll SPACED*, IA - Institute for the Arts, Lisbon
2004 ll SPACED (*with Ana Pinto and Nuno Cera), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
2000/02 ll Research Grant - FLAD Foundation, Lisbon
1998 ll AIAS Exchange Program Ar.Co/SVA, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and FLAD, SVA, NYC
1994/98 ll Ar.Co, Art and Visual Comunication, Lisbon

Solo Exhibitions

2009 ll TRUEFICTION, Espaço Avenida, Sala Bébé, Lisbon, PT
2008 ll The (...) Sun, KIM, Berlin, DE
2007 ll The Home Planet, (Berlin preview) Starship Magazine EV, Berlin, DE
2006 ll The Home Planet, Museu do Chiado, National Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon, PT
2005 ll Was Machen Sie, (perform.) Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE
2002 ll The Least, Praxis Space, NYC, USA

Group Exhibitions

& Screenings

(selection)
2009 ll Primitive Projections, BKVB, Berlin, DE
2009 ll Sign Languages, Deep Leap Microcinema, Portland, OR, USA
2009 ll Circles and Spinning Wheels & If I Could Crowd All My Souls Into That Mountain, Time-Based Art Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA
2009 ll Teleskop, Kolonie/Wedding, Berlin, DE
2008 ll “Quel Air Clair...” Ar.Co Collection, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, PT
2007 ll Schwankende Perspektiven, Galerie Olaf Stueber, Berlin, DE (S)
2007 ll Science l Fiction, Galerie Metro, Berlin, DE
2007 ll Secret Garden, KIM, Berlin, DE
2006 ll Das Fest, Portuguese Embassy, Berlin, DE
2006 ll Orient Express, F.I.N.D. 6, Schaubuehne, Berlin, DE
2006 ll Emerging Video - Influences and Shifts, Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, Paris, FR (S)
2005 ll Props for a Romantic Comedy, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx Museum, NYC, USA
2004 ll Daydreaming, Slight Alienation, Cruel Kindness & Detached Sentimentality, Joymore's Gallery, NYC, USA
2004 ll Drawing Out Loud, HDC Gallery, NYC, USA
2003 ll Post-Portugal, Off-loop-Video Biennial, Met-room, Barcelona, ES
2003 ll Alive and Gone - Video Screening, BAM, NYC, USA (S)
2002 ll Expect the World – Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, DE
2002 ll Moi Non Plus – Parkhaus Treptaw, Berlin, DE
2002 ll Drawing The Line, Z-Bar, Berlin ll Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE ll Chiado Museum, Lisbon, PT (S)
2000 ll 2000greenspaces, Greenhouse, Lisbon, PT
1999 ll Espaco1999, Sala do Veado, Natural History Museum, Lisbon, PT
1999 ll 7/10. Sete Artistas ao Decimo Mes, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PT
1999 ll BM, Maia Biennial, Maia, PT
1998 ll Casaderute, ZDB Gallery, Lisbon, PT
1998 ll NHXXI, Greenhouse, Lisbon, PT

Collections

PCR/Col. Lisbon
Ar.Co/Col. Lisbon

Bibliography

4 LINES ll (book, concept, Carla Leitão) – (True Fiction by Catarina Simoes ) pg 28/29, pg 64. Published by Akademie Schloss Solitude, Jean-Baptiste Joly /Design by Carla Leitão and Wei Yun Wang , Printed in Germany by Leibfarth & Schwarz, Dettingen/Ems

The Home Planet ll (flyer,poster) Museu do Chiado, texts: Catarina Simões, Pedro Lapa, design Catarina Simões, Edgar Massul, Lisbon 2006

Das Fest ll (Catalogue), Berlin,2006 (texts by Ana Pinto)

7/10. Sete Artistas ao 10o Mês ll (Catalogue), Lisbon: CAMJAP – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1999, 46 pp. (texts by Jorge Molder and João Pinharanda).