Francisco Laranjo


Francisco Laranjo was a Portuguese contemporary painter and educator.

Work

Laranjo was born in 1955 in Lamego, Portugal. He was the director of the School of Arts and associate professor of Porto University and has been lecturer in many universities in cities such as Bilbao, Ottawa, Sheffield, Alexandria, Sofia, Paris and Athens.
As an artist, he has exhibited extensively and in several countries, including Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Canada, India, United Kingdom, and China.
From his many individual shows, it is possible to highlight the following in Porto, UK, Aylmer, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Riga, Latvia.
Laranjo received several scholarships for post-graduate research, including grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, National Scientific Board, European Committee and the Goethe Institut, Dresden, Germany.
Laranjo lived and worked in Porto, Portugal. He died from cancer on 16 November 2022, at the age of 67.

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