João Penalva
Portugal
João Penalva (Lisbon, 1949) lives and works in London, where he studied Fine Arts at the Chelsea School of Art, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Selected solo exhibitions: CCB, Lisbon; Camden Arts Centre, London; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Tramway, Glasgow; The Power Plant, Toronto; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Mead Gallery of the University of Warwick; Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway; MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg; Culturgest, Porto.
Selected group exhibitions: Tate Modern, Haus der Kunst, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MAAT.
Selected public and private collections: Arts Council England, Deutsche Bank, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the PLMJ Foundation, the Serralves Foundation, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum Budapest, the Towner Museum of Contemporary Art, Western Bridge – The Bill and Ruth True Collection.
He represented Portugal at the São Paulo Biennale (1996) and the Venice Biennale (2001).
Selected solo exhibitions: CCB, Lisbon; Camden Arts Centre, London; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Tramway, Glasgow; The Power Plant, Toronto; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Mead Gallery of the University of Warwick; Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway; MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg; Culturgest, Porto.
Selected group exhibitions: Tate Modern, Haus der Kunst, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MAAT.
Selected public and private collections: Arts Council England, Deutsche Bank, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the PLMJ Foundation, the Serralves Foundation, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum Budapest, the Towner Museum of Contemporary Art, Western Bridge – The Bill and Ruth True Collection.
He represented Portugal at the São Paulo Biennale (1996) and the Venice Biennale (2001).
