His pictorial work explores areas of contact between painting, drawing and installation. One some occasions the works actually appropriating the three-dimensional space and establish a dialogue with the architecture.
Born in Venezuela in 1980.
Plastic Arts Degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP).
Fellow of the Socrates/Erasmus Program for the Facultad de Bellas Artes at Universidad del Pais Vasco.
Specialization Course in Artistic Interventions in Public Spaces and Production of Site Specfic Works (Universidade Lusófona).
He has exhibited regularly since 2005.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2022
- Palimpsesto, Sput&Nik the window, Porto
2020
- Entre o espaço e o poder, apanha-me se puderes (Between space and power, catch me if you can), Sput&Nik the window, Porto
2018
- Entre o espaço e o poder, apanha-me se puderes (Between space and power, catch me if you can), Galeria Palácio Cadaval, Évora
2011
- Claudicante, Sput&Nik The Window, Porto
- Em Lugar Nenhum (Nowhere), Galeria ACERT, Tondela
2010
- Em Lugar Nenhum (Nowhere), Galeria Arthobler, Porto
- Em Lugar Nenhum, Galeria Arthobler, Lx Factory, Lisboa
2009
- Virtus, Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira
2006
- Dromos, 24b Gellery, Oeiras
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
- Tudo acontece, tudo é engraçado (Everything happens, everything is funny), Viarco Fábrica Portuguesa do Lápis
2020
- TRABALHO CAPITAL # GREVE GERAL (WORK CAPITAL # GREVE GENERAL) a new exhibition-installation for one day and one night, curated by Paulo Mendes from the Norlinda and José Lima Collection at the Centro de Arte Oliva
2019
- 10 / 40 Exposição Collective 10 years of Kubikgallery, Porto
- 10º Aniversário Sput&Nik, Porto
- Bienal de Coruche-Percursos com arte, Coruche
2018
- Book Hop, curated by Jorge Simões and Paulo Corte-Real, Casa Garden, Macau
- XX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira
2017
- P de Pintura, 1ª edição, Biblioteca Municipal Rocha Peixoto, Póvoa de Varzim
2016
- Periplos/ Arte Portugués de hoy, curated by Fernando Francés, Cac Málaga, Málaga
- Book Hop, at CAV, Coimbra
2015
- Projecto colectivo O passeio, a escuta e o respirar da acção, curated by José Maia, Maria Côrte- Real e Susana Rodrigues, Espaço MIRA, Porto
- Da(imagem)imaginação, Bliblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira
2014
- Cheia, 3ª edição, Biblioteca Municipal Rocha Peixoto, Póvoa de Varzim
- Home Work, Galeria Bang Bang, Lisbon
2012
- Maia, Cidade em Performance 0.2, CENTR’ARTE, Maia
2011
- A Quatro, Galeria IPSAR - Instituto Portughese di Sant’António, Roma
- Maia, Cidade em Performance, Fórum Municipal da Maia
- MUSAO Welcome Oporto, Museum auf Abwegen Ottakring, Viena
- Livro Mundo, Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira
- Munich Contempo, International Art Fair Munich with the Arthobler Gallery
- BLOOOM Cologne, International Art Fair Munich with the Arthobler Gallery
2010
- Munich Contempo, International Art Fair Munich with the Arthobler Gallery
- Huma sorte de academia, Graphic editing project, Museu da FBAUP, Porto
- Arte Lisboa with the Arthobler Gallery
- Projecto Colector, Cinemas Medeia Filmes, Porto
2009
- T0, Arthobler Gallery-Porto
- VAB_Art_Fest, Velha-a-Branca, Braga
- Arte Lisboa with the Arthobler Gallery
- Projecto Colector, Casa Museu Abel Salazar, S. Mamede de Infesta
- Arte Contemporânea na Garagem da Vizinha, Maia
- Finalist of the Fidelidade Mundial Jovens Pintores Award 2009, at Chiado 8, curated by Miguel Wandschneider, Lisbon
- Collection Madeira Corporate Services – Drawings: A-Z (Museu da Cidade da Lisboa), curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Lisbon
- Projecto Colector, Museu D. Diogo de Sousa, Braga
- Olhar 20-30, Paulo Amaro Gallery, Lisbon
2008
- Galeria Reflexus, Porto
- Arte Lisboa with the Paulo Amaro Gallery, FIL, Lisbon
- Opções & Futuros # 3 – Arte Contempo, curated by Miguel Amado, Lisbon
2007
- Iniciativa X, AC – Arte Contempo, curated by de Filipa Oliveira and Miguel Amado, Lisbon
- Arte Lisboa with the Paulo Amaro Gallery, FIL, Lisbon
- Volta Show 03 with the Paulo Amaro Gallery, Basel
- Arco_Madrid Feira Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo with the Paulo Amaro Gallery, Madrid
2006
- Iniciativa X, AC – Arte Contempo, curated by Filipa Oliveira and Miguel Amado, Lisbon
- Participates in the ArtskoolGozSouth Project, programmed with an itinerary from the north to the south of Europe (United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece), aims to promote the connection between art schools through an itinerant exhibition planned between 2006 and 2007
- Urbanismo: Linhas & Contornos, 24b Gallery, Oeiras
2005
- Arte Lisboa with the 24b Gellery, FIL, Lisbon
- School Out / Out of School, Novo Ciclo ACERT Gallery, Tondela
- School Out / Out of School, Arthobler Gallery, Porto
- XIII Bienal Internacional de Vila Nova de Cerveira, curated by Baltazar Torres, Tuy
2001
- Jovens Artistas’01, Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira
- Installation in the Artemosferas project, Porto
AWARDS AND MENTIONS
2022
- Vila Nova de Cerveira City Council Acquisition Awards at the XXII Cerveira International Art Biennial
2017
- Selected for PEAC 2017 Portuguese Emerging Art Catalog
2009
- Finalist of the Fidelidade Mundial Jovens Pintores Award 2009, curated by Miguel Wandschneider, at Chiado 8, Lisbon
2001
- Jovens Artistas’01, Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira, won the prize in the installation category and an Honorable Mention for his painting work
RESIDENCES AND WORKSHOPS
2021
- Artist residency at Viarco Fábrica Portuguesa do Lápis
2019
- Artist residency Bienal de Coruche-Percursos com Arte 2019
2004
- Workshop Animation of clippings and volumes under the guidance of Laurent Pouvaret (teacher at La Poudrière School – France), Cinanima, Espinho
COLLECTIONS
Fundação PLMJ
Colecção Luiz Augusto Teixeira de Freitas – Coleção de Desenhos da Madeira
Colecção Marin.Gaspar
Colecção Joaquim Ferro
Colecção Ângelo Silva e Paulo Damião
Cac, Centro de arte contemporáneo de Málaga
Imago Mundi Collection
Fundação Bienal de Cerveira
Private collections in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, England and Luxembourg
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- We Must Take Action! XXII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, 16 JUL-31 DEZ 2022
- SNAPSHOT. NO ATELIER DE..., ARTECAPITAL, online magazine
https://www.artecapital.net/snapshot-83-andre-silva
- Portuguese Emerging Art 2019
Edição: Emerge artworks selection and curatorial texts: Daniela Ambrósio, Heloísa Vivanco, Hugo Dinis, Jorge Reis, María Gracia de Pedro
TextS: João Silvério, Ana Anacleto, Luís Sáragga Leal
Edition: Fundação PLMJ
- ACERVO 5 DÉCADAS DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA, 2018
Selection of Works and Conception
Editorial: João Silvério
Edition: Fundação PLMJ
- XX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira 40 anos 10 de Agosto a 23 Setembro, 2018
- PEAC 2017 Portuguese Emerging Art Catalogue
Edition: Emerge
Artworks selection and curatorial texts: Cláudia Camacho, Jorge Reis, Luísa Santos, Mário Caeiro, Rudolfo Quintas, Simeon Nelson
- Portugal: Open Window to the World Contemporary Artists from Portugal Coordenação Editorial: Enrico Bossan
Texts: Luciano Benetton, Filipa Casulo, Fernando Francés
Edition: Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton Collection, 2015
- Da Ima(gem)ginação 07 Fevereiro à 12 de Março, 2015
Publication: Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira
Texts: Cláudia Lopes
- A Quatro Galeria IPSAR − Instituto Portughese di Sant’António, Roma, 2011
Texts: André Silva, Cláudia Lopes, Dalila Gonçalves, Mazza
- Virtus 25 Julho a 30 Agosto, 2009
Publication: Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira
Texts: André Silva
- Comissários, anos 2000 by Maria Leonor Antunes in Jornal de Letras Artes e Ideias, p. 16-20, 22 April to 5 May, 2009
- Prémio Fidelidade Mundial Jovens Pintores, Lisboa, 2009; Companhia de Seguros Fidelidade, ed. lit.; Culturgest, ed. lit.
Publication: Fidelidade Mundial, D.L. 2009
Texts: Miguel Wandschneider
- Opções & Futuros #1_2008 Dezembro de 2008 “Opções & Futuros” (Volume I) presents an anthology and disciplines (painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and video) of the main emerging artists, active in the last decade, with works exclusively the Foundation PLMJ
Publication: Fundação PLMJ
Editor: Miguel Amado
- Opções & Futuros #3_2007 Works from the collection of the PLMJ Foundation, recent acquisitions
Publication: Fundação PLMJ, 2008
Editor e text: Miguel Amado
- Arte Lisboa_Feira de Arte Contemporânea, 8_13 Novembro de 2006
Edition: FIL_Feira Internacional de Lisboa
- Desenhos [drawings]: A-Z, 2006
Publication: Coleção Madeira Corporate Services
Edition: Adriano Pedrosa
Texts: Alexandre Melo, Adriano Pedrosa, Carla Zaccagnini
- Pelos labirintos do mercado A melhor edição da Arte Lisboa, ainda que sejam poucas as galerias estrangeiras by Alexandre Pomar in Público 26-11-2005
- XIII Internacional Biennale of Vila Nova de Cerveira 20 de Agosto a 17 Setembro, 2005
Texts: Baltazar Torres