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Juliao Sarmento

Biography

Born: Lisbon, Portugal in 1948
Lives in Sintra, Portugal


Selected One Person Exhibitions:
2004 Drift, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
Joyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Meio Século de Arte Portuguesa 1944-2004, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon
Invenção de Mundos Colecção Marcantonio Vilaça, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Invenção de Mundos Colecção Marcantonio Vilaça, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil
VideoZone2, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Ghosts, Centro de Artes Visuais (CAV), Coimbra, [catalogue]
Echo, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven [catalogue]
2003 Reel Sculpture: Film into Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Parasite, Galerie Bernd Klueser, Munich
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Praha
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Praha
Galería Pepe Cobo, Sevilla
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa
2002 Julião Sarmento Trabalhos dos Anos 70, Museu do Chiado, Lisboa [catalogue]
Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga [catalogue]
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Domestic Isolation, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
1999 Julião Sarmento: Fundamental Accuracy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. [brochure]
Segredos e Mentiras, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo [brochure]
Maverick, Xavier Hufkens, Brussel
Segredos e Mentiras, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
The Wrong Person, Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Julião Sarmento: Flashback, Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid [catalogue]
A Film Installation, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
1998 "The White Paintings," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland;
Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid, Spain; Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
1997 The Portugese Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
1996 "Selfish, Proud, Cunning, and Regardless of Others," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
1995 "Laura and Alice," Galerie Bela Jarzyk, Cologne, Germany
"Only A Moment or Two of Brutal Madness," Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Palacio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal
"Quatre Mouvements de la Peur," Edificio das Caldeiras, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
1994 Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica,CA
"Laura and Alice," Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
IVAM, Centro del Carne, Valencia, Spain (catalogue)
"The White Paintings," Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (catalogue)
1993 Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)
1992 Galerie Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (catalogue)
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
1991 "Pinturas Brancas," Galeria Comicos/Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)
"Witte de With," Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Holland (catalogue)
Louver Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
Fundacion Louis Cernuda, Seville, Spain (catalogue)
1990 "Dias de Escuro e de Luz," Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (catalogue)
"Neue Arbeiten," Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Milan, Italy
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
1989 Galeria Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
Xavier Hufkens, Bressels, Belgium
Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
1988 "Gnadenstoss," Galeria Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
Galeria Erika + Otto Friederich, Bern, Switzerland
1987 Galeria Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
"Forum 87," Galeria Comicos, Zurich, Switzerland
1986 "Neue Arbieten," Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Museo de Bellas Artes de Malaga, Spain, (catalogue)
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
Galerie Heinrich Ehrdhardt, Frankfurt, Germany
1985 Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal, (catalogue)
"Perspective 85, Art 16'85," Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
1984 "Arbeiten auf Papier," Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
"Pinturas," Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
1982 "Drawings," Gangurinn, Reykjavik, Iceland; Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
"Pinturas 1981/82," Casa de Bocage, Setubal, Portugal (catalogue)
"Pinturas em Papel 1981," ARTA Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)
1980 "1947," Studio GSU, Galerie Grada, Zagreb, Yugoslavia (catalogue)
"Testa," Galeria Moduto, Porto, Portugal
"Rosebud," Galeriae Diferenca, Lisbon, Portugal
1979 "Gnait," Galeria CAPC, Coimbra, Portugal (catalogue)
"Reading Pieces," Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
1978 "Jaula/Cage & Trabalhos Recentes," Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal (catalogue)
1977 "Don Juan," Galeria Modulo, Porto, Portugal (catalogue)
1976 Galeria de Arte Moderna, S.N.B.A., Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1997 "Haus der Kunst," Munich, Germany. Centro Cultural Belem, Lisbon, Portugal (touring to two other venues)
"En La Piel de Toro," Palacio de Velasquez Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1995 "Extreme Occidente," Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Rekaide Bilbao, Spain
"Alem da Taprobana - A Figura Humana nas Artes Plasticas dos Paises de Lingua Portuguesa," Museu de Artes Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Call it Soeep," Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland
1994 "From Beyond the Pale - Cindy Sherman and Juliao Sarmento," The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
"The Day After Tomorrow," Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)
"Unbound: Possibilities in Painting," Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)
"Four Europeans: Helmut Dorner, Lili Dujourie, Harald Klingelholler, Juliao Sarmento," Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1993 "Juan Munoz/Juliao Sarmento," Metalurgica Alentejana, Beja, Portugal (catalogue)
"BIO '93 Cerco," Solar do Largo de Santa Maria, Obidos, Portugal (catalogue)
"Contemporary Art from Portugal: Western Lines," Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan (catalogue)
"Drawing the Line Against Aids," Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (catalogue)
"The Brushstroke: Painting in the 90s," Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Klima Global-Arte Amazonas," Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
Technische Sammlungen der Stadt, Dresden, Germany
1992 "Terrae Motus alla Regia di Caserta," Palazzo Reale di Caserta, Caserta, Italy (catalogue)
"The Frozen Leopard (Part III)," Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
"Portugisisk Nutidskunst - Rego, Sanchos, Sarmento," Vejle Kunstmuseum, Vejle, Denmark (catalogue)
"Arte Amazonas," Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Museo de Arte, Brasilia, Brazil
Bienal de Sao Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Technische Sammlungen der Stadt Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
"Regards Multiples," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (catalogue)
1991 "Triptico," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (catalogue)
"Clemente, Dorner, Iglesias, Mol, Sarmento," Louver Gallery, New York, NY
"Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau," Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
1990 "Vom Haben und Vom Wollen," Perspektiven fur eine Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Eine Aussteillung, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
1988 "Farbe bekkenen," Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
“Quatriemes atelier international des pays de la Loire,” Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud, France/Palais des Congres de la Ville du Mans, Le Mans, France (catalogue)
1987 “Lusitanies, Aspect de l'art Contemporain Portugais,” Centre Culturel de l'Albigeois, Albi, France (catalogue)
“Documenta 8,” Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
"Terrae Motus," Grand Palais, Paris, France (catalogue)
1986 "Prospekt 86," Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue)
1985 "11 European Painters, Europalia," National Gallery, Athens, Greece (catalogue)
Dichgans, Dujourie, Dumas, Foxcroft, De Goede, Van Hemert, Iglesias, Klingelholer, Luyten, Munoz, Porter, Sarmento, Schmidt Heins B., Schmidt Hiens G., Vermeiren," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland (catalogue)
1984 "Terrae Motus," Fondazione Amelio, Villa Campolieto, Ercolano, Italy
1982 "Documenta 7," Kassel, Germany
1980 La Biennale di Venezia (Il Tempo del Museo Venezia), Magazzini del Sale, Venezia, Italy, (catalogue)
XI Biennale de Paris, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (catalogue)
1979 "Fotografie Als Kunst - Kunst Als Fotografie," Europa 79, Stutggart, West Germany (catalogue)
Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
"Text- Foto-Geschichten," Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (catalogue)



Public Collections:

Caixa General de Depositos, Lisbon, Portugal
Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
Centro de Arte Moderna/Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Fondazione Amelio, Naples, Italy
Fondo Artistico dello Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee della Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Fundacao das Descobertas, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Fundacao Luso-Americana Para o Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal
Galerija Grada, Zagreb
Hara Museum of Ceontmporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Malmo Museum, Malmo, Sweden
Ministerio das Financas, Lisbon, Portugal
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Germany
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Germany
Musee National d'Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, Lisbon, Portugal
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
Stadt Museet, Lund, Germany
Stadtische Galerie am Markt, Schwabisch Hall, Germany
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Stadtische Galerie, Erlangen, Germany
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Saison Foundation/The Museum of Modern Art, Takanawa, Japan

Artist Works

Some Attributes of Anxiety 1999
mixed media on canvas
75 5/8" x 75 5/8"   


Negócios Galantes e Pilagens, 1997
mixed media on canvas
99 x 157 1/2 inches   


Stab-Wrist, 1996
etching
20 x 18 1/2 inches
Edition of 20   


Throat-Cut, 1996
etching
21 1/4 x 20 inches
Edition of 20   



John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Juliao Sarmento