Mariana Gomes e Pedro Valdez Cardoso

Mariana Gomes (Faro, 1983) lives and works in Lisbon. She graduated in Visual Arts/Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Her notable solo exhibitions include Neo-Pós-Neo (2023) and Solilóquio (2020) at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art. She has participated in group exhibitions such as FRESH BREEZE (2023) in Berlin and Feast. Fury. Femina. in São Miguel, Azores (2022). She received the Amadeu Souza Cardoso Award in 2015 and an honourable mention in the Fidelidade Mundial Young Painters Award in 2011. Her works are part of the collections of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Carmona e Costa Foundation, the Norlinda and José Lima Collection, and the PLMJ Foundation.

Pedro Valdez Cardoso (Lisbon, 1977) lives and works in Lisbon. He has been exhibiting regularly since 2001. Recent solo exhibitions include De formas mudadas em novos corpos, FARRA / MACE ELVAS, (2024); A face is a mask is a face is a mask..., Brotéria, Lisbon (2023); Pagan Days, NO. NO Gallery, Lisbon, (2023); Luvas Brancas, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2022); Sob o Signo de Saturno, Quartel das Artes - Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, Abrantes, PT (2019); História da Vida Privada, Galeria 111, Lisbon (2017); ÁRTICO: Narrativa e Fantasmática, CIAJG - José de Guimarães International Arts Centre, Guimarães (2015). Group exhibitions in which he has participated include: Elevador da Glória, Norlinda and José Lima Collection, Oliva Art Centre, S. João da Madeira, PT (2024).; FLAD Drawing Prize, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, PT (2023); Transition Zones - Works from the PLMJ Foundation Collection, Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional Gallery, Lisbon, PT (2023); Álbum de Família - Fundação Carmona e Costa Collection, MAAT Central, Lisbon, PT (2023); Chasseurs de Tempétes, Centre d'Art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest, FR (2022); Saudade - Contemporary Art from Portugal and China, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai (2018); The Raft. Art is (not) lonely, L’Etage Euphrosine Gallery, Ostende, BEL (2017); Portugal, Portugueses, Museu Afro-Brasil, São Paulo, BR (2016); ANOZERO - Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art, Museu Botânico, Coimbra, (2015); Colonia Apócrifa, MU.SAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, ES (2014). He is represented in various national and international public and private collections.