EDUCATION

- Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK (2018-2019)
MA Art & Politics (2:1)

- FBAUP-School of Fine Arts, Oporto, Portugal (2014-2017)
MA Art and Design for Public Space (1st Class Honours)

- ESAD.CR-School of Fine Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (2005-2009)
BA Fine Art and New Media

- ESAD.CR-School of Fine Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (2004-2005)
BA Industrial Design (Attendance)

- Artistic High School António Arroio, Lisbon, Portugal (2000-2004)
Arts & Crafts and New Media Course

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lecturing

- Associate Lecturer, Fine Arts Studio (1st Term), ESAD.CR - School of Fine Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (2019-2020)

Visual Art Teacher

- Primary Education, Leiria District, Portugal (2019-2020; 2017-2018; 2011-2012)
- Camp monitor, Bissaya Barreto Foundation, Aveiro, Portugal (2009)

Production Assistant

- Quarantaine, Georgina Starr, London, UK (2019)
- The Floating Piers, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Lago d’Iseo, Italy (2016)
- Bergen Assembly, 1^st Art Biennial, Bergen, Norway (2013)

Museum Tour Guide

- Palácio Nacional da Ajuda Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (2017-2018)

Director/Lead Curator

- Casa Titã Art Gallery & Shop, Lisbon, Portugal (2011-2013)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

- Incerta desambiguação, Gallery Zaratan, Lisbon, Portugal, Co-curator with Jorge Maciel (19 October-18 November 2017)

- Today as yesterday different then tomorrow, Espaço da Concas Museum, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, Curator (11 March-8 April 2017)

- Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Espaço da Concas Museum & online, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, Curator (11-12 and 18-19 March 2017)

- PRAGA-Itinerant and Alternative Art Festival, CAR-Círculo de Arte e Recreio Museum and Association, Guimarães, Portugal, Co-curator with Luís Carneiro, Tomás Opinião and Xana Ribeiro (3-5 April 2011)

EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

Solo Presentations

2019
- A Routine for my Skin, London, UK
- To be a happening for each other, Military Museum, Elvas, Portugal (curated by Um Coletivo
- Hold on a gesture, Gallery 310, London, UK
2014
- Plateau-Another Study for an artwork, Hotel Madrid, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (curated by Electricidade Estética)
- Falência do Sistema, Gallery NAU, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2013
- Er det papegøye i Bergen?, Gallery Bokboden, Bergen, Norway
2012
- Board 4-Abstract Concepts, Gallery Electricidade Estética, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
- Quanto Pesa o Mundo?, Don't Worry Babes, Bernardo Foundation (Van), Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
- No Túnel, Bernardo Foundation, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Collaborative Projects

2014
- New Year’s Eve, Lagoa de Óbidos, Nadadouro, Portugal (public installation in collaboration with Bruno Lavos Marques, Carlos Rodrigues and Jorge Maciel)
- Não há cá pão para malucos, noc noc Ó da Casa Festival, Guimarães, Portugal (public installation in collaboration with Jorge Maciel)
2012
- Untitled, Centro da Juventude, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (stage design for Lavoisier’s Concert in collaboration with Jorge Maciel)
2011
- Bedside, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (in collaboration with Inês Prats)
- Canibalismo Aplicado, Junho das Artes, Obidos, Portugal (performance with Von Calhau and other participants)
2009-2011
- Salomé, Judite e Dalila, several locations (Dj performance in collaboration with Susana Valadas and Xana Ribeiro)
2009
- O Agitador (after George Grosz), ESAD.CR-School of Fine Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (performance in collaboration with Luís Carneiro)
- 2 Acts, Imaginarius Festival, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal (music performance in collaboration with NOME)
2008
- Gastronomic Concert, Uma Só Voz Festival, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (music performance in collaboration with NOME)
2007
- Untitled, Caldas Late Night, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (performance/installation in collaboration with Elizabete Francisca Santos)
2003
- À Flor do Caos-Finita Terra Infinita, Teatro Camões and Fórum Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (performers and stage design for the play in collaboration with António Arroio School students)

Group Presentations

2019
- I take care of things, RAW Labs, London, UK (curated by Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong)
- Soil From Nowhere, St, James Hatcham Building, London, UK
2018
- Apresentação Múltiplo, Gallery Zaratan, Lisbon, Portugal
- Ah! Afinal tu trabalhas, Ciclo da Primavera, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (curated by Eletricidade Estética)
2017
- Untitled (one image), Caleidoscópio, Gallery Maus Hábitos, Oporto, Portugal (curated by Luísa Abreu)
- Arquivo para, Lethes Art, Museum Torre da Cadeia Velha, Ponte de Lima, Portugal (curated by Isabel Patim) (catalogue)
- FOR 'SAIL', Slow is The New Fast, Museum FBAUP-School of Fine Arts, Oporto, Portugal (curated by Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro)
- A conquista do espaço... público! #4, Noites da Lua Azul, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (curated by - Eletricidade Estética)
- Ideia No. 2, Cornea Attack, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (curated by Electricidade Estética)
2016
- (re)furnishing the city, Porto Lazer/EDP, Rua da Cedofeita, Oporto, Portugal
- Retrato-60X44.5, Museum Casa das Artes Mário Elias, Mértola, Portugal
2015
- Written Memory, Berliner Herbstsalon at Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin, Germany (curated by Anonymous Stateless Immigrants-ASI)
2014
- Our thoughts are forming the world, A Porta Festival, Leiria, Portugal (curated by Lara Portela)
2013
- Wall, Line Art Fest, Bergen, Norway (curated by Jorgelina Mansini)
2012
- De Comboio para a Sibéria, Red Bull House of Art, Lisbon, Portugal (curated by Jorge Maciel)
2011
- Esta casa tem tecto mas podia não ter, Experimental Art Biennial Rabiscuits, Alcobaça, Portugal

PUBLICATIONS

Critical Writings

- “The commonplace. Between objects and ideas that express in contemporary art the public realm and (re)call a circularity of artist, work, citizen and place,” Samuel Silva, and Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro, eds. (Oporto: FBAUP-School of Fine Arts, 2018)

Artzines

- “Circular in the commonplace. Between objects and ideas that express in contemporary art the public realm and (re)call a circularity of artist, work, citizen and place,” Samuel Silva, and Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro, eds. (Oporto: FBAUP-School of Fine Arts, 2018)
- “A Natureza não tem Limites,” Gonçalo Belo, and Patrícia Faustino, eds. (Caldas da Rainha: Borealis #4, 2012)
- “PRAGA-Itinerant and Alternative Art Festival 3^rd edition,” Tiago, ed. (Guimarães: CAR-Círculo de Arte e Recreio Museum and Association, 2011)
- “Ora porra!,” Patrícia Relvas, ed. (Caldas da Rainha: Maga-Visual Art Exhibition, 2010)
- “PRAGA-Itinerant and Alternative Art Festival 2^nd edition,” Tiago, ed. (Évora: Sociedade Harmonia Eborense, 2008)

Exhibitions Catalogues

- Isabel Patim, “Arquivo para,” Memories and Identit(ies), Ponte de Lima: Lethes Art (July 2017)

Conference Presentations & Papers

- “Tool to act? - One question to Balibar,” Workshop: Translation, Hospitality and Equal Liberty, Étienne Balibar and Soraya Nour Sckell, Cosmopolitanism Without Borders, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal, 3 March 2020
- “The commonplace. Between objects and ideas that express in contemporary art the public realm and (re)call a circularity of artist, work, citizen and place,” Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro, Jorge J. Marques and Samuel Silva, Slow is The New Fast, FBAUP-School of Fine Arts, Oporto, Portugal, 2 October 2017
- “The Common Place,” Arts II, IJUP-Young Researchers Encounter, Medicine Research Centre, Oporto University, Oporto, Portugal, 8 February 2017

Public Programmes

- Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Espaço da Concas Museum & online, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, Curator, 11-12 and 18-19 March 2017

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

- A Salto, UM COLETIVO, Elvas, Portugal (17 August-1 September 2019)
- Artist Studio, Arts Centre, Council of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (1 June 2016-31 May 2018)
- CENTA, Vila Velha de Ródão, Portugal, (1-31 August 2007)

GRANTS, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

- Visual Art Support Grant COVID-19, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (2020)
- Entrance Scholarship, CalArts - California Institute of Arts, Valencia, CA, USA (2018)
- Visual Art Grant, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (2017)
- Grant, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco, USA (2017)
- Special mention, Porto Lazer/EDP, Oporto, Portugal (2016)
- Special mention, Anonymous Stateless Immigrants, Berlin, Germany (2015)
- Young Painter of the Year Award, Rotary Club, Lisbon, Portugal (2003)
- Participation, International Physics Olympiad, Lisbon, Portugal (2002)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Courses

- Doing the thinking. Thinking the doing with João Fiadeiro and Roman Bigé, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal (2019)
- German Language Course (A1), CENCAL, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (2018)
- AND Lab Summer School with Fernanda Eugénio - Research Centre for Art-thinking&Politics of Togetherness, Pólo das Gaivotas, Lisbon, Portugal (2018)
- Adobe Photoshop & Image Post-production, CENCAL, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (2017)
- ‘The “Untitled” Workshop’ with Barbara Holub, Bodied Spaces-Performance Festival, Oporto, Portugal (2016)
- CCP Pedagogic Teacher Training, Significado, Consultoria, Formação e Informática, Lda., Lisbon, Portugal (2012)
- Circuit Bending with Von Calhau-Canibalismo Aplicado, Junho das Artes, Obidos, Portugal (2011)
- Contemporary Dance with Joana Von Mayer Trindade, Fórum Dança, Lisbon, Portugal (2006)
- Improvisation and Composition with Bruno Cochat, Dance Vocacional School, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (2005)
- Black and white analog photography, ARCO, Lisbon, Portugal (2004)

IT

- Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint (Advanced)
- iWork: Pages, Numbers, Keynote (Advanced)
- Adobe: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro (Advanced) (Certificate)
- Final Cut Pro (Advanced)
- Web: HTML, CSS, Java Script (Medium)
- Social Media: Facebook, Instagram (Advanced)

Languages

- Portuguese (Native speaker)
- English (Proficient user) (IELTS Certificate Level C1)
- Spanish (Proficient user)
- German (Basic user) (Certificate Level A1)
- French (Basic user)
- Norwegian (Basic user)

Full expertise skills available upon request.