Pedro Chorão

Pedro Chorão was born in Coimbra in 1945. His first interest was biology and he studied in Liverpool, at the North-East Liverpool Technical College (1963-1967). It was there that he was inspired to start painting, admiring the British Pop artists of the time hanging on the walls of the public library he frequented every day. He then moved to Paris to study art history and archaeology at the École du Louvre and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), where he began to paint seriously. From 1968 to 1972 he did 4 years of military service, 2 years in Portugal and 2 years in the Cape Verde Islands. On his return from Africa, he obtained a master's degree in painting from the University of Lisbon (Faculty of Letters). He returned to Paris with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1976-1978). He later received another grant from the same foundation to paint in Lisbon (1987-1989).