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Simão Martinez (Lisbon, 1993) is an artist based in Lisbon, Portugal. He has been exhibiting regularly since 2017, both in Portugal and abroad (France, Spain, Poland and the UK), and his work can be found in both private and institutional collections in Portugal, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. His works have also been published in over a dozen catalogs (see "Publications").His choice of media encompasses printmaking (stone lithography & chalchography), painting and drawing, and he works towards harmonizing the profound material mastery that their traditions have honed throughout history, both in Western and Eastern approaches, with the conceptual freedom of contemporary times.Although his work avoids values such as urgency and disruptiveness, it is nonetheless the product of exposure to contemporary culture. In between his broad, often dissociative scope of subject matter and formal qualities, lies a central focus on creating objects that evade "contemporaryness", in a dialogue that does not privilege their own temporal context, but rather their inherent phenomenological and material character, and the somewhat atemporal state art can exist in.
EDUCATION
BA, Drawing (graduated 2019)
Faculty of Fine-Arts, University of Lisbon
MA, Painting (ongoing, 2020-)
Faculty of Fine-Arts, University of Lisbon
© 2022 Ana Paganini
2023
JustLX - Contemporary Art Fair
CCL - Lisbon Congress Centre
Lisbon, Portugal
Nothing here yet.
2022
Nothing here yet.
2021
Somnium et Mirabilia
MAC - Carmo Archaeological Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
Nothing here yet.
2020
Flâneurs and Dandies Suspended in a Smartphone
MAC - Carmo Archaeological Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
Flâneurs and Dandies Suspended in a Smartphone
Aula Gallery, The Strzemiński Academy of Arts
Łódź, Poland
12th Amadeo de Souza-Cardos Prize
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Museum
Amarante, Portugal
12 x 12 x 10
Santa Clara Market
Lisbon, Portugal
Nothing here yet.
2019
We Have Time for That
Galeria Arte Graça
Lisbon, Portugal
SGPCM - FBAUL Prize
SGPCM - Secretariat-General for the Presidency of the Ministers' Council
Lisbon, Portugal
Ridges and Waterlines in the Côa Valley: A Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition
MAC - Carmo Archaeological Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
Printmaking and Transgression
MAC - Carmo Archaeological Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
Carmo, Chiado, and the Heart of Darkness
Maison du Portugal
Paris, France
Carmo, Chiado, and the Heart of Darkness
Sala Acua / Centro de Iniciativas Culturales
Cuenca, Spain
Carmo, Chiado, and the Heart of Darkness
MAC - Carmo Archaeological Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
Artrooms London 2019
Meliã White House
London, UK
Nothing here yet.
2018
Paula Rego Prize: 3rd Edition
Paula Rego House of Stories
Cascais, Portugal
From Matter to Line
Galeria Arte Graça
Lisbon, Portugal
Drawing(s) in Construction
Galeria de Santa Maria Maior
Lisbon, Portugal
Carmo, Chiado, and the Apparitions of Faust
Sala Acua / Centro de Iniciativas Culturales
Cuenca, Spain
Carmo, Chiado, and the Apparitions of Faust
MAC - Carmo Archaeological Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
Carmo, Chiado, and the Apparitions of Faust
Maison du Portugal
Paris, France
BASE LX
Sto. António da Barra Fort
Estoril, Portugal
Nothing here yet.
2017
Paula Rego Prize: 2nd Edition
Paula Rego House of Stories
Cascais, Portugal
New Regards on the Côa Valley: A Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition
MAC - Carmo Archaeological Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
New Regards on the Côa Valley: A Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition
Côa Museum
Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal
Feira Morta VIII
ZDB - Galeria Zé dos Bois
Lisbon, Portugal
Nothing here yet.
Carmo, Chiado and the Apparitions of Faust: Public Sphere and Transfigurations of a Myth
Exhibition Catalogue
Alicja Habisiak-Matczak, Jean Pierre Muller, José Quaresma, Ramon Freire Cruz, Wernher Bouwens
ISBN: 978-972-9451-72-0 (PT) 978-83-65403-86-5 (PL)
2018
New Regards on the Côa Valley: A Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition
Exhibition Catalogue
José Quaresma, José Arnaud, Célia Pereira (coord.)
ISBN: 978-972-9451-68-3 (PT)
2017
Ridges and Waterlines in the Côa Valley: Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition
Exhibition Catalogue
AAP - Portuguese Archaeologists’ Association
ISBN: 978-972-9451-79-9 (PT)
2019
Drawing(s) In Construction
Exhibition Catalogue
FBAUL - Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon
ISBN: 978-989-8944-21-4 (PT)
2018
12th Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Prize
Exhibition Catalogue
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Municipal Museum
António Cardoso, Bruno Marchand, Laura Castro, Lúcia Almeida Matos, Raquel Henriques da Silva
ISBN: 978-989-8141-98-9 (PT)
2020
Printmaking and Transgression: Dissemination of Graphic Marks and Pre-Revolution Moments
Exhibition Catalogue
AAP - Portuguese Archaeologists’ Association
ISBN: 978-972-9451-80-5 (PT)
2019
Chiado, Carmo and the Heart of Darkness
Exhibition Catalogue
Alicja Habisiak-Matczak, José Quaresma, Ramón J. Freire, Wernher Bouwens
ISBN: 978-972-9451-76-8 (PT) 978-83-66037-25-0 (PL)
2019
Paula Rego Prize: 3rd Edition
Exhibition Catalogue
D. Luís I Foundation; CHPR - Paula Rego House of Stories
Paula Rego, Catarina Alfaro
ISBN: 978-989-8972-00-2 (PT)
2019
Paula Rego Prize: 2nd Edition
Exhibition Catalogue
D. Luís I Foundation; CHPR - Paula Rego House of Stories
Paula Rego, Catarina Alfaro
ISBN: 978-989-8986-90-2 (PT)
2018
SGPCM-FBAUL Prize
Exhibition Catalogue
FBAUL - Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon; SGPCM - Secretary-General for the Portuguese Council of Ministers
ISBN: 978-989-8944-21-4 (PT)
2019
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