Augusto Alves da Silva

Portugal

Augusto Alves da Silva (Lisbon, 1963) lives and works in Tremez. He studied Photography at the London College of Printing and Media at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, with two scholarships from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Selected solo exhibitions: MU.SAC – Museo Arte Contemporánea Castilla y León; Espaço BES Arte & Finança, Espaço Chiado 8, Museu do Chiado, Culturgest (Lisbon); Galeria Pedro Oliveira, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Centro Português de Fotografia (Porto); Galeria Fonseca Macedo (Ponta Delgada); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid); Chisenhale Gallery (London).
Selected group exhibitions: Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra; CCB, Fundação Carmona e Costa (Lisbon); the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Porto).
Selected collections: BES, Centro Português de Fotografia, FLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, the PLMJ Foundation, Fundación Foto Colectania, Helga de Alvear, MEIAC – Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.