Ricardo Valentim (Loulé, 1978) completed the degree in Anthropology at the Lisbon Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, in 2003. Between 2004 and 2006, he did his Masters of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts, in New York. With regular exhibitions since the beginning of the 2000’s, the artist has been presenting his work in a great variety of media, such as sculpture, radio, video, photography and other printed materials. With these media, he builds narratives that wish to question the actual mechanisms of the representation of the Other, revealing in this way his interest and connection to ethnographic studies, that prevail from his degree. Some of his most important solo exhibitions are: Film Festival (Pedro Cera Gallery), Lisbon, 2006; E-flux, New York, 2007; Statements/Art Basel 38, Basel, 2007; Espace Expérimental, FRAC Íle-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris, 2008; Ricardo Valentim (Pedro Cera Gallery), Lisbon, 2008; The Unacceptables(Pedro Cera Gallery), Lisbon, 2010; Growth and Culture (Serralves Contemporary Art Museum), Oporto, 2012 and Post (Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2013). His group exhibitions include: Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo, 2008), Art Basel (Miami, 2008), Art Basel 39 (Basel, 2008), Marta Cervera Gallery (Madrid, 2008), Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art (2009), The Antioquia Museum (Medellín, 2011), ME Contemporary (Copenhagen, 2011), Vera Cortês Gallery (Lisbon, 2011) and Renwick Gallery (New York, 2011). In 2008, he received the Ron Brugal Artistas Emergentes Prize (Madrid), the Sommerakademie Prize (Bern), in 2009, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award (New York), in 2010 and the Heineken CA2M prize from ARCO (Madrid), in 2011. Ricardo Valentim lives and works in New York, and his work is represented in the PLMJ Foundation Collection (Lisbon), Contemporary Art Museum of the Serralves Foundation (Oporto), Ilídio Pinho Foundation (Oporto), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid), among others.

FMV, October 2020

Pedro Valdez Cardoso

Artworks

Sem título, da série «Desenhos de Campo» [Untitled, from the series «Field Drawings»]2008-2015

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Ricardo Valentim