Collection: Conceição Rhodes

I was born on a farm surrounded by fields, where I lived until I was 16. This had a profound influence on me. After that, I spent a few years in Coimbra, where I began my contact with art, painting, and drawing at the Círculo de Artes Plásticas. At 23, I came to Lisbon, where I've lived for many years and where I studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts.

My creative process went through various stages, evolving into a style that became increasingly abstract while maintaining a foundation of subjectivism, improvisation, and a certain pastoral quality, where mist often appears. It also retains characteristics of Romanticism in its freedom of expression, appreciation of imagination, fascination with emotion and fantasy, and the exaltation of nature.

I don't choose themes. I let things flow and am surprised by what I find. Thus, I leave the interpretation of my painting entirely up to the viewer.

EDUCATION:

- CAP - Fine Arts Circle of Coimbra

- ARCO - Lisbon ( Painting)

- FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY OF LISBON - Painting

- MART - Lisbon ( 1 year -drawing and painting)

Solo exhibitions:

2023 - Olga Santos Galeria - Porto

2018 - National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon

2017 - National Club of Fine Arts- CNAP - Lisbon

2016 - Santa Catarina Art Gallery - Lisbon

2014 - FIL - Lisbon - «Portugal Maior»

2009 - Espaço235ConceiçãoVascoCosta - Lisbon

2009 - Shop of Museu Científico e Cultural de Macau - Lisbon

2009 - Espaço Movimento Artes e Ideias MAI - Lisbon

2005 - Centro Galego de Lisboa

2002 - Centro Galego de Lisboa

1991 - National Society of Fine Arts - Lisbon

Collective Exhibitions:

2017 - National Club of Fine Arts - CNAP - Lisbon

2016 - Town Hall Gallery of Sobral Monte Agraço

2016 -National Society of Fine Arts Gallery - Lisbon

2016 - National Club of Fine Arts Gallery - Lisbon

2016 - Olhar sobre o Botânico Gallery - Porto

2013 - Mujeres Artistas - Granada - Spain

2013- PASPARTOUT Art Gallery - Barcelona

2011- Vieira Portuense Art Gallery - Porto

2011 - Alto Alentejo International Exhibition - Sousel

2011 - Paula Cabral Art Gallery - Lisbon (Summer exhibition)

2010 - " Anjos" Paula Cabral Art Gallery - Lisbon

2010 - Red Gate Gallery - London

2009 - Christmas visions - M. Artes e Ideias MAI Space - Lisbon

2008 - Finance Ministry Exhibitions Hall - Lisbon

2008 - Salon de Mars - Paris - France

2007 - Justice Ministry Hall - Lisbon

2005 - Hipermercarte - Lisbon 2004 -

2005 - Mitra Gallery - Lisbon

2000 - Mail Art - Hannover Fair - Germany

1999 - 50 years of Painting and Sculpture in Portugal - Palácio Foz Lisbon

1999 - África Amiga - Lisboa

1996 and 2006 - International Exhibitions - Vendas Novas

1991 - Small format - Viragem Gallery - Cascais

1991 - Council Gallery - Loures

1991 to 1995 - Sabugal Biennials

1991 - Figueira da Foz Museum

1991 - Viragem Art Gallery - Cascais

1991 - Viragem Art Gallery and Estoril Casino

1989 to 1996 - Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes - Lisbon

1990 - Viragem Art Gallery - Cascais

Is Represented:

In - the book "50 anos de Pintura e Escultura em Portugal", 1999 (pages 41 and 185)

- Ministry Finance Collection

- Internal Administration Ministry collection

- Centro Galego de Lisboa Collection

and several private collections

Selected by Rebecca Wilson (Chief Curator of Saatchiart),
for " New This Week Collection" featured on Saatchi Art homepage in March 2018

Work was also selected by Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator of Saatchiart , for "tangerine dream collection" and and other collections.

Works featured for other Saatchiart curators for exemple, a work selected for the collection "Orange is the new black".

2 times, selected to The 300 first works of 3700 artists on Saatchiart Showdowns.

2015 - Selected for THE TOP 100 ARTISTS - CONTEST PORTUGAL NOW - organized by the DEBUT CONTEMPORARY GALLERY - (Notting Hill) LONDON

PRIZE on Mail Art 2000 Contest in Hannover - Germany

PRESS

Agenda Cultural Dezembro 2017 Solo exhibition at SNBA announcement

1990 - text and image , Comércio do Porto Newspaper

2002 and 2008 - Semanário Expresso Newspaper Magazine - image and notice of an solo exhibition in 2011 - Semanário Sol Newspaper Magazine -notice and image selected for a Collective Exhibition