João Leonardo
Portugal
João Leonardo (Odemira, 1974) currently lives and works in Klippan, Sweden.
He graduated in Art History, with the Bachelor of Art (Hons) from the FCSH, Nova University Lisbon. He attended the Independent Study Programme at Maumaus School of Visual Arts. He concluded the Master's programme of Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University (2009) with a study grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He was a resident artist at the International Kunstlerhaus Villa Concordia (Bamberg, 2010-2011) and winner of the EDP Foundation’s New Artists Award (2005). In 2020 and 2022 he received a one year working grant from Konstnärsnämnden / The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Sweden.
Individual and group exhibitions (selected): 2017, MNAC / Museu do Chiado and Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon; 2016, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Oporto; 2013, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain; 2010, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, and Centro de Artes Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro; 2008, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA; 2006, National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow; 2005, Museum Centre Vapriikki, Backlight Triennal, Tampere, Finland. Collections (selected): CACE, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, PLMJ Foundation, Danfoss Art Foundation (Nordborg, Denmark), EDP Foundation, Galila Barzilaï P.O.C Collection (Brussels), Manuel de Brito Collection, MACE, Museu de Arte do Rio (Rio de Janeiro).
He graduated in Art History, with the Bachelor of Art (Hons) from the FCSH, Nova University Lisbon. He attended the Independent Study Programme at Maumaus School of Visual Arts. He concluded the Master's programme of Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University (2009) with a study grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He was a resident artist at the International Kunstlerhaus Villa Concordia (Bamberg, 2010-2011) and winner of the EDP Foundation’s New Artists Award (2005). In 2020 and 2022 he received a one year working grant from Konstnärsnämnden / The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Sweden.
Individual and group exhibitions (selected): 2017, MNAC / Museu do Chiado and Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon; 2016, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Oporto; 2013, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain; 2010, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, and Centro de Artes Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro; 2008, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA; 2006, National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow; 2005, Museum Centre Vapriikki, Backlight Triennal, Tampere, Finland. Collections (selected): CACE, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, PLMJ Foundation, Danfoss Art Foundation (Nordborg, Denmark), EDP Foundation, Galila Barzilaï P.O.C Collection (Brussels), Manuel de Brito Collection, MACE, Museu de Arte do Rio (Rio de Janeiro).
