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João Penalva    (Portuguese, 1949)

 João Penalva - Either a face or udders (Photographs) h: 132 x w: 112 cm / h: 52 x w: 44.1 in
João Penalva
Either a face or udders 2008
 
 João Penalva - Kitsune (Video/Film)
João Penalva
Kitsune 2001
 
 João Penalva - Light beam (Installations)
João Penalva
Light beam 2007
 
 João Penalva - Pavlina (Installations)
João Penalva
Pavlina 2007
 
 João Penalva - The Khosoko-doro Series (Photographs)
João Penalva
The Khosoko-doro Series 2006-2008
 
 João Penalva - The Shutoko lights (Photographs) h: 230 x w: 152 cm / h: 90.6 x w: 59.8 in
João Penalva
The Shutoko lights 2008
 
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Biography
1949 Born in Lisbon, Portugal
1976 - 1981 BA and MA Fine Art Degrees, Chelsea School of Art, London
2003 - 2004 DAAD residency in Berlin
2005 Résidence des Récollets, Paris
2009 Bryan Robertson Trust Award
Lives and works in London

Exhibitions
2010 Welcome Collection, London, UK (solo)
2009 Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2009 Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden (solo)
2009 FEEDBACKSTAGE, curated by Fiona Liewehr, in cooperation with Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna. Galerie Thomas Schulte
2009 Serralves 2009— The Collection, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
2009 A Mancha Humana/The Human Stain, CGAC — Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
2009 Pequeña historia de la fotografia, CGAC— Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
2009 Prison of Love, OTR espacio de arte, Madrid
2009 Lá Fora, Electricity Museum, Lisbon / Lisbon
2009 A Mancha Humana/The Human Stain, CGAC — Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
2009 Pequeña historia de la fotografia, CGAC— Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
2009 Prison of Love, OTR espacio de arte, Madrid
2009 Lá Fora, Electricity Museum, Lisbon / Lisbon
2009 Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany (solo)
2008 Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2008 Solar—Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Vila do Conde, Portugal (solo)
2008 Todas as histórias, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Oporto, Portugal
2008 Part-ilha, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2008 One of these things is not like the other things, 1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2008 Lá fora (Artistas Portugueses), Museu da Presidência da República, Viana do Castelo and Lisbon, Portugal
2008 Drawing a Tension—Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 À volta do papel, 100 Artistas, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Oeiras, Portugal
2008 (I’m Always Touched) By Your Presence, Dear—New Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2008 All that cinema, Ludwig Museum—Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2008 Call of the Wild, Benveniste Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
2007 Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UKi (solo)
2007 A propos des lieux d’origine—Portugal agora, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2007 Voyage… Evasion, Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
2007 Entre a palavra e a imagem, Centro Cultural de Vila Flor, Guimarães, traveling to Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 The roar of lions, 2006, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006 Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2006 Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick, UK (solo)
2006 Around the World in Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts/South London Gallery, London, UK
2006 Eldorado, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2006 IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2005 The Gesture. A visual library in progress, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2005 Quarter, Centro Produzione Arte, Florence, Italy
2005 Museu Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Serralves, Portugal (solo)
2005 Ludwig Museum — Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary (solo)
2005 Thinking of the Outside, Bristol City Council/Picture This, UK (solo)
2005 Itinerarios del Sonido, Sound Project in Madrid Public Spaces, Spain (solo)
2005 Musée d‘Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (solo)
2004 - 2005 Effort, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
2004 Video-Zone, 2nd Video Biennal, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 About Corporeality in Editions: Artist Books, Prints and Photography, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 Rohkunstbau, Groß Leuthen, Brandenburg, Germany
2004 Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow, Ireland (solo)
2004 Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany (solo)
2004 Fotografie-Ausstellung, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
2003 Under Ground, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Rohkunstbau, Groß Leuthen, Brandenburg, Germany
2003 INIVA Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
2003 Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2003 The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (solo)
2002 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2002 Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal (solo)
2002 Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden (solo)
2002 The John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, Australia (solo)
2001 Pavilion of Portugal, XLIX Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
2001 Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany (solo)
2000 Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (solo)
2000 fig-1, London, UK (solo)
2000 Tramway, Glasgow, UK (solo)
2000 Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
2000 Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania (solo)
2000 More works about buildings and food, Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal
1999 Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1998 Neither/Nor, Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1996 XXIII Bienal Internacional de S. Paulo, Brazil (solo)
1994 The day after tomorrow, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
1987 50 Portraits, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Stowells Trophy 1980, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Literature
2007 Morgan Fisher, Katharine Stout, João Penalva, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, The University of Warwick, Coventry
2005 João Fernandes, João Penalva, João Penalva, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Museum Budapest—Museum of Contemporary Art, Museu Serralves de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
2001 Pedro Lapa, Repetition against the law, João Penalva, Electa, Milan
2001 Pedro Lapa, Sense and Subversion, João Penalva, R., Pavilion of Portugal, XLIX Biennale di Venezia, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea/Ministério da Cultura, Lisbon
2000 Francis McKee and João Penalva, On the other hand, this is not my voice, Tramway, Glasgow
2000 Silvia Eiblmyer, Character and Player, Galerie im Taxispalais/Triton Verlag, Innsbruck/Vienna
1997 Ana Cristina Leite, The Collection, Collector, the Museum, The Ormsson Collection, presented by João Penalva, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
1994 João Fernandes, João Penalva, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
1990 Ruth Rosengarten, João Penalva, Two makes one better, Galeria Atlântica, Porto
1987 Philip Courtney, João Penalva, Sala Atlântica, Galeria Nasoni, Porto
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