José Maçãs de Carvalho

After obtaining a first degree in Modern Languages and Literature (Coimbra University, Portugal), completed a postgraduate course in Management of the Arts (Institute of European Studies in Macau, 1998), where lectured and lived from 1994 to 1999. Obtained a PhD in Contemporary Art from Colégio das Artes, University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2014. Lectures at the University of Coimbra, in the Architecture Department and Colégio das Artes, where directs the Master’s Degree on Curatorship. Main interests are in the field of arts, namely photography, video art and contemporary art. As an artist has work (photos and videos) in public and private art collections. Was both curator and participant in the exhibition My own private pictures (Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon Photo Biennial, 2005), which lay at the origin of nomination for the BES Photo Prize in 2005 (most important prize for photography in Portugal).In 2008 was shortlisted for the Pictet Prix (Suisse Bank Award for Photography). Between 2011 and 2017 set up several exhibitions as a practical project for doctoral programme around the subject of archive and memory at CAV, Coimbra; Ateliers Concorde, Lisbon and Colégio das Artes, Coimbra; VPF gallery, Lisbon; The City Hall Photographic Archive, Lisbon, VF Xira Photo Bienal, Museu do Chiado and MAAT, Lisbon, and a book, “Unpacking: a desire for the archive”, published by StolenBooks. In 2015, a book of photographs, “Partir por todos os dias”, was published by Editora Amieira. In 2016 photographic work about Porto university campus was published in a book called “Asprela” by Scopio Editions and Porto Polytechnic Institute. In 2017 the book “Archive and Interval” was published by Stolen Books, Colégio das Artes/University of Coimbra and MAAT, with texts by Pedro Pousada, José Bragança de Miranda, Adelaide Ginga e Ana Rito (Portuguese art critics and university lecturers). Since 2020 has been curator of Coimbra Contemporary Art Centre. As an artist is represented by Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon, and has works in several public and private Art Collections.