photography: Bruno Lopes
EDUCATION
2006 MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, UCLA – University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA) | 2003 Fall Semester, MFA Studio Art, NYU – New York University, New York City, NY (USA) Research, School of Fine Arts, University of Basque Country (Public Art) | BilbaoArte (New Media), Bilbao (Spain) | 2001 BFA, Visual Arts/Sculpture, FBAUP – School of Fine Arts, University of Porto (Portugal) | 2000 Erasmus Program, UPV/EHU – School of Fine Arts, University of Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain) | 1995 IAPDA, Int. Art, Design, Architecture Program – Soares dos Reis High School for the Arts, Porto (Portugal)
ART RESIDENCIES
2024-25 Absonus Lab Negentropy Nexus: Art and Technology in the Post-Digital Age – Artist online residency (Hugo Paquete, curator) | 2018 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (Egypt) – research/production residency (William Wells, director) | 2016 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica/Los Angeles, CA (USA) | 2013 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito/Bay Area, CA (USA) | 2013 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (USA) | 2008-09 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Video/Film/New Media, Stuttgart (Germany)/(Ingrid Wildi Merino, jury) | 2009 Live Examination – Kaunas Biennial 2009, M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas (Lithuania) | 2004 C.E.N.T.A., with Sofia Barreira, Castelo Branco (PT) | 2002 Land, Sea and Skye – AICART & ESW, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Isle of Skye (Scotland, UK) | 2001 Interactive Spaces project/residency, Porto 2001/AICART, Porto (Portugal /Joaquim Pinheiro, AICART, organizer)
AWARDS and GRANTS
2019 Jurors Award + Best Documentary Award, The Artists Forum Festival of Moving Image, New York, NY (USA) Experimental Film Award, SMHAF Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Glasgow, Scotland (UK)
2018 Efroymson Family Fund Award / Contemporary Arts Fellowship (Chicago, USA); Silver Film Award, Java International Humanitarian Awards, Bali (Indonesia)
2017 SPACES + MAAT/FCC museum, production grants for exhibition and related book, Lisbon (Portugal)
2014 Nomination, Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Teaching, CWRU, Cleveland, OH (USA)
2013 Headlands Center for the Arts Fellowship, Sausalito/San Francisco, CA (USA), MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH (USA)
2011-12 Artistic Grant, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal)
2011 Jury Prize | FUSO 2011, International Video Art Festival of Lisbon, 3rd edition (Portugal)
2008-09 Akademie Schloss Solitude Residency Fellowship, Stuttgart (Germany)
2006 Graduate Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)
2005-06 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / FLAD Luso-American Foundation Grant, Lisbon (Portugal)
2003-06 FULBRIGHT Grant / Carmona e Costa Foundation Grant (Master’s degree, USA)
2005 Samuel Booth Award, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA), Art Council Award, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA), D’Arcy Hayman Award, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA), EDP Foundation Award New Artists / Prémio EDP Novos Artistas – nomination (Portugal) Artistic Grant (with Sofia Ponte), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal)
2004 Graduate Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)
2003 Louisa Woods Memorial Fund Award (Institute of International Education, NY, USA) Graduate Scholarship, New York University, NY (USA), Engº António de Almeida Foundation Award, Porto (Portugal)
2001 Teixeira Lopes Award / Prémio Teixeira Lopes, Porto (Portugal), Fernando de Castro Award (FBAUP’s outstanding graduate), Porto (Portugal)
2000 Merit Scholarship, FBAUP – School of Fine Arts, University of Porto (Portugal)
1999-2000 Erasmus Scholarship, University of Porto / University of Basque Country (Portugal-Spain)
1998 Giefarte / School of Fine Arts, University of Porto – Award to ARCO Fair, Madrid (Spain)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS and SCREENINGS (selection)
2027 upcoming: Ciclo RELAÇÃO – Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Eduardo Petersen
2026 upcoming: MPM, the project – Milwaukee Public Museum (collaboration with Sarah FitzSimons)
2024-25 Art and Mental Health: an aesthetic and ethical approach – online project (text+media), commissioned by María Iñigo Clavo, Open University of Catalonia/Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
2023 Caixa de Correio / Do you think this could ever be the ocean? (42.2°N, 81.2°W), José Carlos Teixeira/Sarah FitzSimons, Porto (Portugal) – curated by Daniel Moreira e Rita Castro Neves
2023 Sine Terra, variations in minor key – MNSR Soares dos Reis National Museum, Porto (Portugal) – curated by António Ponte, A. Mântua, R. Pinheiro
2022 Fragments, Encounters, and Representations – Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI (USA) – curated by Jason S. Yi
2021 Translations – SFMOMA’s online solo project, curated by Claudia LaRocco for Open Space (USA)
2019 On Exile – UnionDocs: Center for Documentary Art, Brooklyn, NY (USA)
On Exile – New Filmmakers Series, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (USA)
On Exile – AANM Arab American National Museum, Detroit/Dearborn, MI (USA)
2018 On Exile – MMOCA Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (USA) – curated by Leah Kolb
Fragments, Encounters, and Representations [ON EXILE] – The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH (USA) – curated by Ann Albano
Screening + Artist Talk: José Carlos Teixeira – Wozen Studio, Lisbon (PT) – curated by João Marcus Cavalcanti
2017 On Exile – MAAT Museum, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by João Pinharanda and Ana Anacleto
On Exile – SPACES, Cleveland (USA) – curated by Christina Vassallo
2016 José Carlos Teixeira – 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica/Los Angeles, CA (USA) – curated by Anuradha Vikram
Intersections in Contemporary Art – MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (USA)
2014 Shared Spaces, Alterity Revisited: José Carlos Teixeira – Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (USA) – curated by Claudia La Rocco
2013 Shared Spaces, Alterity Revisited – DAZ, Deutsche Architektur Zentrum, Berlin (Germany) – curated by Matthias Böttger
The Vault: José Carlos Teixeira – Spaces, Cleveland, OH (USA) – curated by Marilyn Simmons
José Carlos Teixeira | Sarah FitzSimons – Residency Unlimited + ARTE institute, New York, NY (USA) – curated by Ana Ventura Miranda
2012 In Between – João Cocteau + Berlinerpool, Berlin (Germany) – curated by Andrzej Raszyk
The Fall, o exercício da queda – Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Lúcia Marques / Lourenço Egreja
Video Screening (with Margarida Paiva) – Kulturhuset Stabekk Kino, Stabekk/Oslo (Norway)
Point and Coordinate (with Sarah Fitzsimons) – Casa da Inquisição, Monsaraz (Portugal)
2011 In Between – Goethe-Institut, Lisbon (Portugal)
2010 Between Clarity and Fog (2) – Índex, Porto (Portugal)
Between Clarity and Fog (2) – Espaço Cabine, Sopro Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Rui Almeida
2009 Between Clarity and Fog – Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany)
Geographies and Other Ethnographies – Objectifs, Centre for Photography and Filmmaking (Singapore) – curated by Kee Hong Low
2008 Aus Amerika | VideoArbeiten von José Carlos Teixeira – Rosalux, Berlin (Germany) – curated by Tiny Domingos
Always Chasing | Always Displacing – VOYEUR Project View, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Rodrigo Vilhena
ENSAIO on unsheltered bodies – Espaço Ilimitado, Porto (Portugal) – curated by João Baeta
2007 Geographies and Other Ethnographies – Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Gisela Rosenthal / Maria da Graça Carmona e Costa
2006 MFA Thesis Show – New Wight Galleries, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
2005 Shipwreck | Naufrágio (with Sofia Ponte) – Sala do Veado, Natural Hist. Museum, Lisbon (Portugal) -curated by Sofia Marçal
23 hours, live performance with Lillian Fellmann – Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA (USA)
2004 Inner.home.out.there – with Sofia Barreira, CENTA, Salgueiral/Castelo Branco (Portugal) – curated by Graça Passos
2002 Story for you when you are afraid – MausHábitos, Porto (Portugal) – curated by Daniel Pires / Isaque Pinheiro
2001 O Estendal: performance/installation project – Interactive Spaces, Porto 2001/AICART, Porto (Portugal)
1999 (Un)frontiers – FBAUP Student Union Gallery, Porto (Portugal)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS and SCREENINGS / Festivals (selection)
2026 upcoming: Identity Politics – Aberdeen Art Museums, Aberdeen, Scotland (UK) – curated by Jessica Barrie
2023 Atlas da Solidão (“Quero que um dia não se espere nada de mim”) – Appleton Square, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Marta Rema
2022 An Uncertain Future / Um Incerto Porvir – online screening w/ Brazilian & Portuguese artists (VideoBrasil/Fuso) – curated by Rachel Korman / Solange Farkas
2021 Poético ou Político [ Ensaio I, Ensaio II ] – Lightboxes/MUPI group show in the streets of Oporto, Porto (Portugal) – curated by João Baeta
Má Impressão – photo series, prints for sale Project, MausHábitos, Porto (Portugal)
Post-Industrial Labor – video screening, Tinnerman Lofts, Cleveland, OH (USA) – curated by Jacob Koestler
2020 Refugee Stories, Online Showcase Series #09 – w/ Martha Gorzycki, The Artists Forum, New York (USA) – organized by Amos White V
ProjectoMAP 2010-2020, Mapa ou Exposição – Berardo Museum, Lisbon (Portugal)
FMP#1 – works of the collection, Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by João Silvério
2019 A Visibility Matrix, a project by Gerard Byrne + Sven Anderson – Secession, Vienna (Austria) – curated by Matthew Bakkom/Gerard Byrne + Sven Anderson
3rd Bienal Internacional de Gaia (with Sarah FitzSimons) – V.N.Gaia (Portugal) – curated by Rui Ferro/Norberto Castro
Eindhoven Film Festival – Official Selection, Eindhoven (Netherlands)
LIDF London International Documentary Festival – London (UK)
The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image – Dolby Screening Room, New York, NY (USA) – organized by Amos White V
SMHAF Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival – CCA Contemporary Art Center, Glasgow (Scotland)
Festival de Fotografia de Paranapiacaba – Paranapiacaba, São Paulo (Brazil) – curated by Daniel Moreira+Rita Castro Neves/João Kulcsár
Videotectures, selection of video works / FUSO festival – FEA, Lisbon (Portugal)
ArtQuake Biennial Art and Film – Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto (Japan)
Border Control, NMC exhibition – Stamps Gallery, School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI (USA) – curated by Allison Collins / Srimoyee Mitra
Cine Lusco Fusco, monthly sessions – Consulado de Portugal, São Paulo (Brazil)
Short Film Factory / December screening – Bucharest (Romania)
2018 A Visibility Matrix, a project by Gerard Byrne + Sven Anderson – The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
A Visibility Matrix, a project by Gerard Byrne + Sven Anderson – Fondation Espace Écureuil, Toulouse (France)
Wisconsin Artists Biennial 2018 – MOWA Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI (USA)
OFF Biennial “Something Else” – Darb 1718 and other locations, Cairo (Egypt) – curated by Sheila Zago
FUSO, anual de video arte internacional de Lisboa – MNAC Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (PT) – curated by FUSO / Rachel Korman
FUSO, anual de video arte internacional de Lisboa – Galpão VideoBrasil, S.Paulo + Esc. Artes Visuais, Rio (Brazil)
Intersección, FUSO – Fundación Luís Seoane, La Coruña (Spain) – curated by Gonzalo E. Veloso
Arthouse Asia 2018 (Film Festival – official selection/documentary competition), Kolkata (India)
Athens International Film and Video Festival 2018 (official selection/competition), Athens, OH (USA)
Respect Human Rights Film Festival (official selection), Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Family Film Project 7 (official selection + video installation) – Passos Manuel, MausHábitos, Porto (Portugal)
Visions du Réel 2018, Documentary Film Festival (selected for media library), Nyon (Switzerland)
HotDocs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2018 (The Doc Shop), Toronto (Canada)
Ciclo de Primavera 2018 – Salas Cinzentas, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) – curated by Electricidade Estética
Desvio no Labirinto – Casa das Artes de Tavira, Tavira (Portugal) – curated by João Baeta
Adrift, a Dream – Gallery 215, 78th Street Studios, Cleveland, OH (USA) – curated by Liz Maugans
2017
Caleidoscope – Galeria do Sol + Maus Hábitos, Porto (Portugal) – curated by João Baeta
What can Art do? – 7th floor Gallery, George Moss Humanities Building, Madison, WI (USA)
Faculty Show – Art Lofts Gallery, UW-Madison, Madison, WI (USA)
2016
An Ocean Trapped Behind a Wall, part of Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival – New Mexico State University Gallery, Las Cruces, NM (USA)
AIFVF Athens International Film and Video Festival 2016 – Athena Cinema, Athens, OH (USA)
Portugal em Flagrante, Operação 1 – CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Penelope Curtis, Ana Barata, Ana Vasconcelos, Leonor Nazaré e Patrícia Rosas
Moving Anthropologies – Museu da Vila Velha, Capital Cultural Eixo Atlântico, Vila Real (Portugal) – curated by Rui Mourão
Selecção FUSO – 104 Cent Quatre, Paris (France)
SAMPLES, Festival Internacional de Vídeo-México – Diorama, México City + Aalto University, Helsinki (Finland)
EXiM 2016, Portugal and Macao Experimental Video Festival – Ox Warehouse, Macao (China) – curated by José Drummond
2015 Tour Internacional, Edições Carpe Diem – Espaço XX Vinte, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Exposição Edições Carpe Diem – Palácio das Artes, Porto (Portugal)
POSTE_MATOSINHOS – video screening, Mercearia S. Miguel, Matosinhos (Portugal) – curated by João Baeta
Rooms to Let: CLE 2015 – Slavic Village, Cleveland, OH (USA) – curated by Amy Krusinski Sinbondit
CIA Faculty Show – Reinberger Gallery, CIA, Cleveland, OH (USA) – curated by Bruce Checefsky
Pulp in Ashes – Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Bienal da Maia 2015, “Lugares de viagem – Momento III” – in POSTE, Fórum da Maia (Portugal)
2014 Community Works, Artist as Social Agent: Dor Guez, Maj Hasager, José Carlos Teixeira, Caroline Woolard/Susan Jahoda – Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (USA) – curated by Bruce Checefsky
Ossuary – Herron Gallery of IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN (USA)
2013
2013 Wisconsin Triennial, State of Art – MMOCA Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI (USA) – curated by Leah Kolb
Big Deal #5 – Q-Park, Cavindish Square, London (UK) – curated by Cedric Christie
Londonska hronika (The London Chronicle) – SKC Film Forum, Belgrade (Serbia)
Occupations: Art Takes Up Space – Block Gallery + Public Space, Oakland, CA (USA) – curated by Anuradha Vikram
Festival IN, 25 frames per second: videos PLMJ Foundation collection – FIL, Parque das Nações, Lisbon (Portugal)
Um Retrato Quase Apagado – XVII Cerveira Biennial / 17ª Bienial de Cerveira (Portugal)
Das sombras eléctricas – POSTE / Extéril + Mercearia S. Miguel, Porto (Portugal) – curated by J. Baeta
Between Document and Fiction 2 – Marquee Theater, UW-Madison, WI (USA)
Panazorean International Film Festival – Teatro Micaelense, Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel (Azores, PT)
Do Silêncio a um Outro Hino – Cultural Centers of Mindelo and Praia (Cape Verde) – curated by Rui Mourão
2012
VAFA Video Art For All, Festival and Exhibition – Casa Garden, Orient Foundation, Macau (China) – curated by José Drummond
TRANSATLÂNTICA X TRANSATLÂNTIDA – S.P. Cultural Center, São Paulo (Brazil) – curated by Tiago Almeida e Alexandre A. R. Costa
Ossuary – Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI (USA)
Summer Night Series – Union Square Park, by Arte Institute, New York, NY (USA)
FRAMEART, International Exhibition of Video Art, Experimental Film and Digital Performance – CAAA, Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, Guimarães (Portugal) – curated by Tiago Marques Gomes
Entre Comissários e Curadores, Os Artistas e os Livros – LABCUR, Guimarães 2012 (Portugal) – curated by Fátima Lambert
Cinco séculos de Desenho na colecção da FBAUP, 3º núcleo – Soares dos Reis National Museum, Porto (Portugal) – curated by Fátima Lambert
Vidência, video series – Casa do Pinheiro + Circulo Católico de Operários do Porto, Porto (Portugal)
2011 Supermarket, the international artist-run fair – Kulturhuset, Stockholm (Sweden)
Between Document and Fiction – Passos Manuel + Maus Hábitos, Porto (Portugal)
FUSO, Anual de Vídeo Arte Internacional de Lisboa – Natural History Museum + Carpe Diem, Lisbon (Portugal)
Momento (Acção) 2 – FBAUP Museum, School of Fine Arts University of Porto (Portugal) – curated by Rute Rosas
Iniciativa X – Artecontempo Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Miguel Amado e Filipa Oliveira
Chain Letter – Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
2010
Res Publica, 1910 and 2010, a Face Off – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Leonor Nazaré and Helena de Freitas
Territories of the In/Humane, Narratives of Migration – Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (Germany) – curated by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ (screening)
Da Outra Margem do Atlântico: examples of PT video and photo – Hélio Oiticia Arts Center, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) – curated by Paulo Reis
Cabinet d´Amateur, Sala do Veado 20 years – Sala do Veado, Natural History Museum, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Sofia Marçal
And then again… – Pavilhão Preto, Museum of the City, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Ana Fonseca
VIDEOBOX – Sala Itália, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
II Bienal de Arte, VIDEOBOX – Ansião Municipality (Portugal)
2009
ARTELISBOA 09, Contemporary Art Fair – Galeria Presença stand, FIL, Lisbon (Portugal)
Biennial 2009, Live Examination – M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas (Lithuania) – curated by Virginija Vitkienė and Arvydas Zalpys
LÁ FORA [artistas portugueses] – Museu da Electricidade, EDP Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by João Pinharanda
Bodies-Cities, Places-Parts – TELIC/Distributed Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Displacements | 4 Portuguese Contemporary Perspectives – IC Cultural Centers, Praia (CV) & Luanda (Angola) – curated by Lúcia Marques
Freewaves Highlights – CAA 2009, College Art Association Conference, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, LA (USA)
Context Video – monthly series, Monkeytown, Williamsburg, NY (USA) – curated by by Brian Block
Underconstruction, Mónica de Miranda – Pavillion 28, Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by M. Miranda
Promise | Practice | Protocol – Festival, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany) – curated by Melanie Mohren and Bernhard Herbordt
Kaunas_Porto – Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania) – curated by Arvydas Žalpys and Joaquim Pinheiro
Sommerfest 2009 – Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany)
Expo Arte y Bicicleta, IV Festival Internacional de Bicicultura – Quinta Normal Metro Station, Santiago (Chile)
2008 Die Römer VI, Kommunikologie – Projektraum Römerstrasse, Stuttgart (Germany)
HollyWould: LA Freewaves’ 11th festival of new media arts – LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (USA) – curated by Anne Bray
Red Line 08_bordering on us – Imerge Gallery, Porto (Portugal) – curated by Joaquim Pinheiro
Stranger than paradise – with Mónica Gomes, Marco Godinho, Presença Gallery, Porto (Portugal) – curated by João Pinharanda
Mais Maputo (w/ ENAV) – in DOCKANEMA, French-Mozambican Cultural Center, Maputo (Mozambique)
Displacements | Deslocações, 4 Portuguese Contemporary Perspectives – IC, S. Tomé, Maputo, & Brasília (Brazil) – curated by Lúcia Marques
LÁ FORA [portuguese artists] – Távora Building, Museum Presidency of the Republic, Viana (Portugal) – curated by João Pinharanda
5 de lá, 5 de cá | Portuguese-Brazillian Video Art – Ateliê da Imagem, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) – curated by Dani Soter
EVR lisbon, e-flux – by ANTON VIDOKLE and JULIETA ARANDA, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal)
Red Line_where are the borders? – Galerija Meno Parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania) – curated by Arvydas Zalpys
Where are you from? Contemporary Art from Portugal – Faulconer Gallery, GC, Grinnell, IA (USA) – curated by Lesley Wright
New Polyphonies: Contemporary Art from Portugal – UNI Gallery of Art, Kamerick Art Building, Cedar Falls (USA) – curated by Darrell Taylor
Opções e Futuros 3, recentes aquisições da Fund. PLMJ – Artecontempo Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Miguel Amado
2007 Displacements, 4 Portuguese contemporary perspectives – Euro Economic Social Committee, Brussels (Belgium) – curated by Lúcia Marques
Red Line 07_Where are the borders? – Ideias Emergentes, Porto (Portugal) – curated by Joaquim Pinheiro
Leben braucht Erinnerung / Life needs memory – Evangelische Stadtakademie Römer 9, Frankfurt (Germany)
Under the Radar I: Small Gestures (video collaboration) – High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
25 frames per second: videos from the PLMJ Foundation Collection – S. Jorge Theater, Lisbon (Portugal)
Iniciativa X – Artecontempo Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Miguel Amado and Filipa Oliveira
2006 L.A. Freewaves: 10th biennial of experimental film, video and new media – Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (USA) – curated by Anne Bray
At Home in the World – Armory Center for the Arts | Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA (USA) Supersonic 2006 – Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (USA) – curated by Elise Barclay
Open Show 2006 – Gallery 825 / LAAA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Moonlight Mesa – site-specific in conjunction w/ High Desert Test Sites 5, Joshua Tree, CA (USA)
Latino-Anglo Culture Clash: Erecting and Breaking Barriers – Museum of the City of New York, NY (USA)
Into the Deep: Exhibition of Contemp. Portuguese art – National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (Russia)
Video Nightmare! – Raid Projects, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Fringefest – Silverlake Film Festival, Arclight Cinemas, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Embodied Technologies – Art Interactive Gallery, Cambridge/Boston, MA (USA)
2005 EDP Award New Artists 2005 – Centro de Portugal Pavillion, Coimbra (Portugal) – curated by João Pinharanda, Nuno Faria, João Fernandes
AC #8 / DV #2 – ArteContempo Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal) – curated by Miguel Amado
Borders –The Western Humanities Alliance / Union Gallery at The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (USA)
Unclassifiable Project – Malmofestivalen, Malmö (Sweden)
Shipwreck | Náufragio – with Sofia Ponte, Fine Arts Academy of Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel, Azores (Portugal)
VIDFEST, Detroit International Video Festival – MONA Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI (USA)
2004 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – Le Grande Halle de La Villete, Paris (France)
Snap to Grid – LACDA Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
B.J.U.R.E. Biennial Juried Underground Railroad Exhibition – Northern Kentucky University Galleries, KY (USA)
Nomadifesta 2004 – Kasteliotissa Space, Nicosia (Cyprus)
MFA’s Colliding – NYU/Pratt group exhibition, Steuben East Galleries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (USA)
2003 Open Studios – Barney Building, Department of Art, New York University, New York, NY (USA)
The Telephone Game – The Commons, Department of Art, New York University, New York, NY (USA)
GetxoArte 2003: emerging arts event – contemporary art fair, Getxo/Bilbao (Spain)
2002 Insolite/Solite: Contemporary European Art Show – Moagens Harmonia, Porto (Portugal)
Passa_porte, fine arts in erasmus – Palácio Gallery, Porto (Portugal)
Teixeira Lopes / Aurélia de Sousa Awards Exhibition – Casa Tait, Porto (Portugal)
Yellow Fence, Would You Like a Fence? – “Land, Sea and Skye”, Portree Gallery, Isle of Skye (Scotland, UK)
2000 FBAUP graduate students exhibition – Library Gallery, S. Maria da Feira (Portugal)
Lacrimosa – video installation, FBAUP Museum, Porto (Portugal)
International Erasmus Exhibition – Sala Araba, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016-2020 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Art Department (USA) . Intro to Video, Performance and Installation (BFA + MFA)
2013-16 Champney Family Visiting Associate Professor, CWRU + CIA (Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Art History and Art / Cleveland Institute of Art)
2012-13 Adjunct Faculty, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Art Department, Madison WI (USA)
2009-11 Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Department, ESAD – Escola Superior de Arte e Design (Portugal)
2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Art, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)
2000-02 Visual Arts Education Teacher, Junior High School, Externato N. S. Perpétuo Socorro, Porto (Portugal)
2001-2003 Docent (classes, workshops, guided tours), Educational Department, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (Portugal)
WORKSHOPS TAUGHT
2022 Video Course /Critique, School of Art, Architecture + Design | Indiana University, Bloomington, Prof. Megan Young 2012 Video Workshop, Tverrfaglige Kunstinstitutt, Oslo (Norway) 2010 House of Dreams, multidisciplinary workshop, Ekahya Multi Arts Center, Durban (South Africa) 2009 Language, Identity, Community, Media Integration program, LaSalle College for the Arts (Singapore) A New Community, video project, Kaunas Biennial 09 – Live Examination, Kaunas (Lithuania) 2009 How I see the world, video workshop, Schloss Solitude, Montessori Grundschule, Stuttgart (Germany) 2008 Art and Document, Camões Institute / ENAV Escola Nacional de Artes Visuais, Maputo (Mozambique) 2002 Art Workshop, Visual Arts for the Youth, Palácio de Cristal, Porto (Portugal)
LECTURES, ARTIST TALKS and Podcasts/Radio
2023 Conversa sobre Soares dos Reis, exílio, refúgio e imigração, with Fátima Lambert, Hugo Monteiro and Ana Mântua, MNSR, Porto 2022 Fragments, Encounters, and Representations – Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI (USA) | Encontros, Fragmentos e Representações – EAAD, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães (Portugal) 2021 José Carlos Teixeira | Artist Talk – Photography Dept, Cleveland Institute of Art, online (USA) | Outras Conversas, José Carlos Teixeira – podcast by João Baeta, Saco Azul / MausHábitos, Porto (Portugal) 2020 Refugee Stories, w/ Martha Gorzycki and Amos White V, The Artists Forum Online Conversation, NY (USA) | Artist Talk, José Carlos Teixeira – OKCU Oklahoma City University Dept of Film, Oklahoma City, OK (USA) 2019 On Exile – CCA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (USA) | On Exile: Fragments, Encounters and Representations – Williams College, Williamstown, MA (USA) | On Exile – Artist Talk + Film Screening, Black Visual Arts Center, Dartmouth College, NH (USA) 2018 Artist Talk – The Sculpture Center, at solo exhibition opening, Cleveland, OH (USA) | Book Launch + conversation – MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (Portugal) | Talk+Screening: José Carlos Teixeira, Wozen Studio, Lisboa (PT) | Artist Talk – MMoCA, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (USA) | Film Screening and Community Conversation – in collaboration w/ Open Doors for Refugees, at MMoCA (USA) | Jose Carlos Teixeira, Dimensions of Otherness – Radio Interview, WORT and TONE, Madison WI (USA) 2017 José Carlos Teixeira / Artist Talk, Lisbon Consortium, MA and PhD in Culture Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, November 9, 2017 | An evening with the artist, José Carlos Teixeira – in conversation with the participants in the film On Exile, elsewhere within here (refugees from Somalia, Syria and Iraq) – SPACES gallery, Cleveland, OH, Oct 13, 2017 2016 José Carlos Teixeira, Artist Talk – Chazen Museum of Art / Elvehjem Building, Madison, WI (USA) 2014 José Carlos Teixeira – Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (USA) | Alterity Revisited: Recent Projects – Baker-Nord Center for Humanities, Cleveland, OH (USA) 2013 Between Contexts and Identities – Community, Participation, Performativity: video-essay as artistic research – Recital Hall, CMA Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (USA) | Community, Participation, Performativity: video-essay as artistic research – Lunch on Friday Series, CIA Cleveland Institute of Art, Russel B. Aitken Auditorium, Cleveland, OH (USA) | Beyond Categories: Intersections Art and Architecture – Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal) 2012 Between Contexts and Identities – CVC Center For Visual Cultures, UW-Madison, WI (USA) 2012 Artist Lecture – Tverrfaglige Kunstinstitutt, Stabekk, Oslo (Norway). 2011 In Between (and book launch) – Goethe-Institut, Lisbon (Portugal) 2010 Artist Talk – Vega School and Ekhaya Multi Arts Center, Durban (South Africa) 2009 Artist Lecture – Kaunas Biennial 09, Live Examination, Kaunas (Lithuania) | Cinema & Debate (Thinking Representation), Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) 2009 Artist Talk, Between Context and Identity – Objectifs, center for film and photo, Singapore (Singapore) 2008 Internal Presentation – Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany) | Artist Talk – in Ensaio on Unsheltered Bodies solo show, Espaço Ilimitado, Porto (Portugal) | Visiting Artist Program – ESAD Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) | Geographies & other Ethnographies – Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, IA (USA) | Red Line_Where are the borders? – Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania) 2007 Talk w/ Pedro de Llano, Geographies other Ethnographies – Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal) | Artist Lecture – Maumaus, School of Visual Arts, Lisbon (Portugal). 2005 Nota Bene – spotlighting the work of emerging scholars/artists – 93rd CAA Conference, Atlanta, GA (USA) | Dialogues with Art, program and courses by Magda Henriques – Fundão (Portugal) 2004 Artist Talk – Escola Soares dos Reis, High School for the Arts, Porto (Portugal)
CURATORIAL WORK
2019 The Urgent Art Fund, juror for SPACES, Cleveland/Cuyahoga County OH (USA) 2016 Moving Anthropologies, co-curator (with Rui Mourão), The Vault, SPACES, Cleveland OH (USA) Guest Speakers Series, ARTH 392/492 Issues in 20th and 21st Century Art, CWRU/CIA, Cleveland, OH (USA) 2015 Guest Speakers Series, ARTH 392/492 Issues in 20th and 21st Century Art, CWRU/CIA, Cleveland, OH (USA) 2014 Guest Speakers Series, ARTH 392/492 Issues in 20th and 21st Century Art, CWRU/CIA, Cleveland, OH (USA) Conference co-organizer: Unruly Engagements, On the Social Turn in Art and Design – CIA, Nov 6-8, 2014 2013 Between Document and Fiction, screenings, Marquee Theater/Union South, UW-Madison (USA), IFGS International Film Study Group (co-curator Matthew Bakkom), Chazen/Elvehjem Building, Madison (USA) 2011 Between Document and Fiction, screenings, Maus Hábitos + Passos Manuel Porto (Portugal) 2010 Selection of video works for Take B, Bernardo Museum, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) Selection of video works from ESAD, Ogiva Gallery, Óbidos (Portugal) 2002 Passa_Porte, Belas Artes em Erasmus, co-curator (w/ Cristina Regadas), Galeria do Palácio, Porto (Portugal)
ART COLLECTIONS (selection)
MAR Museu de Arte do Rio, Fundo Paulo Reis, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) / Aberdeen Art Gallery Collection, Aberdeen (Scotland, UK) / FCG Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Coleção Moderna, Lisbon (Portugal) / EDP Foundation/MAAT Collection, Lisbon (Portugal) / PLMJ Foundation Collection, Lisbon (Portugal) / FUSO – Anual de Vídeo Arte Internacional Archive/Collection, Lisbon (Portugal) / MONA Museum of New Art, Video Collection, Detroit (USA) / New Genres Video Collection, UCLA, Los Angeles (USA) / Sculpture Department/FBAUP Museum Collection, Porto (Portugal)
PUBLICATIONS and CATALOGUES
SOLO
José Carlos Teixeira. ON EXILE, Stolen Books publication, sponsored by MAAT and FCC, 2017-18
IN BETWEEN, artist book, Merz&Solitude Publication, 2011
Geographies and Other Ethnographies, Assírio & Alvim and Carmona e Costa Foundation Publication, 2007
Point and Coordinate (w/ Sarah Fitzsimons) – Publication sponsored by UW-Madison/Monsaraz, 2012
GROUP
Wisconsin Artists Biennial – MOWA Museum of Wisconsin Art publication, 2018 (USA) Community Works: Artist as Social Agent – Exhibition brochure/catalogue, CIA Reinberger Galleries, 2014 Bienal de Cerveira 2013, Um retrato quase apagado – Exhibition catalogue, Portugal, 2013 2013 Wisconsin Triennial, State of Art – MMOCA Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Publication, 2013 E-book: FRAMEART – CAAA Publication / Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, 2012 Da Outra Margem do Atlântico, examples of Portuguese video and photography, Brazil, 2010 Res Publica, 1910 and 2010, a Face Off, Gulbenkian Foundation Publication, Lisbon, 2010 And then Again, catalogue of And Then Again…, Museu da Cidade and DGA Publication, 2010 ATA, Artist Book, C.P.S. Portuguese Printmaking Center, Lisbon 2010, Cabinet d’Amateur, Sala do Veado 20 years, Natural History Museum and Gulbenkian Publication, Lisbon, 2010 Things beyond control, Yearbook 10, 20 years of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Solitude Publication, Stuttgart, 2010 Kauno Bienale Textile 09, Kaunas Biennial Publication, Lithuania, 2009, Underconstruction, by Mónica de Miranda and Paul Goodwin, Lisbon, 2009, LÁ FORA [portuguese artists], Museum of the Presidency of the Republic and EDP Publication, 2009 VIDEOART and Art Films in Portugal – Número: Arte e Cultura & Gulbenkian Foundation Publication, 2008 Red Line 08_Bordering on Us, Edição Imerge Ideias Emergentes, Porto, 2008, Where are you from? Contemporary Portuguese Art, Faulconer Gallery | Grinnell College Publication, 2008 Between Departures and Arrivals, IC Instituto Camões | European Economic Social Committee Publication, 2008 Options & Futures 3, recent acquisitions from the PLMJ Foundation collection, Assírio & Alvim Publication, 2008, Red Line_where are the borders?, Ideias Emergentes Publication, 2007, 25 Frames per second, video in the PLMJ Foundation Collection, Assírio & Alvim and PLMJ Publication, 2007 Supersonic 2006, SOCCAS Southern California Consortium of Art Schools Publication, 2006 B.J.U.R.E. Biennial Juried Underground Railroad Exhibition, NKU – Northern Kentucky University Publication, 2004 GetxoArte: Emerging Arts event, Aula de Cultura de Getxo Publication, Bizkaia, 2003, Passa_porte: belas artes em erasmus, Reitoria UP, IAC and FBAUP Publication, 2002, Insolite/Solite: Contemporary European Art Show, AICART Publication, 2002, FBAUP graduate students exhibition, C.M. Santa Maria da Feira and Galeria Ao Quadrado Publication, 2000 Discovering a garden, FBAUP e C.M.Porto Publication, 1998