João Carqueijeiro


João Edmundo Lemos Carqueijeiro is a Portuguese plastic artist.

Biography

He was born in Lobito, Portuguese Angola on 25 February 1954.
Until he was twenty years old he lived in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique and in 1974, after the Carnation revolution, he went to Porto, Portugal. It was there that, in 1982, he concluded his High Graduation in Drawing at the Cooperativa Árvore. He also graduated and specialized in Wheel, Raku and Glazes at La Bisbal Ceramic School, in Catalonia.
He has taught Ceramic Arts since 1985.

Selected works

A small selection of some of works of João Carqueijeiro divided by categories.

Collective exhibitions

1986 – 10th Meeting of European Ceramists "Périgueux" 1987 – Ceramic Art International Symposium at "Alcobaça" – Alcobaça 1988 – Modern Art Centre of Calouste Gulbenkian's Foundation – Lisbon 1988 – Contemporary Portuguese Ceramic Work "Leal Senado /Luís de Camões Museum" 1988 – Árvore Gallery – Porto 1988 – "L’Europe Des Céramistes" – Auxerre 1989 – National Library – Lisbon 1989 – "Palácio dos Anjos" – Algés 1989 – "Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica de Aveiro" – Aveiro 1989 – "Cinq Jeunes Créateurs Portugais" – "Les Mureaux" 1990 – "3 Jovens Ceramistas" - Youth Foundation – Porto 1990 – International Meeting of Ceramic Arts – Vila Nova de Gaia 1990 – European Meeting of Arts, "Palais des Papes" – Avignon 1991 – Magellan Gallery – Paris 1991 – Árvore Gallery – Porto 1992 – Petrogal / Ceramic Sculpture Meeting – Porto 1994 – Arménio Losa Gallery – São Mamede Infesta 1995 – "Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica de Aveiro" - Aveiro 1995 – Eng. António de Almeida Foundation – Porto 1997 – "10 Artistas do Porto em Fafe" Fafe 1997 – Eng. António de Almeida Foundation – Porto 1997 – "Silêncios/Stille" Symposium at Feital – Trancoso 1997 – Arménio Losa Gallery – São Mamede Infesta 1997 - Ao Quadrado Gallery – Santa Maria da Feira 1998 - Ceramic Art Symposium – Vila Nova de Cerveira – Portugal1998 – Direction of a Ceramic Mural – Artists European Meeting - Paredes de Coura 1998 - "Silêncios/Stille" – Centro Cultural de Aveiro – Aveiro 1998 – Direction and production of the Ceramic Mural of the NORTE COOP Building – São Mamede Infesta 1998 – "Silêncios/Stille", Ausstellung / Preetz 1999 – Direction of a Raku Workshop and exhibition "Atmosfera" – Epicentro Gallery – Porto 1999 – "Encontro de Cerâmica Figurativa – Figurado" – Pottery Museum of Barcelos - Barcelos 2000 – Direction and production of a Meeting of Shaped Plates – Porto 2000 – Gesto Coop. Gallery – Porto 2000 - A. M. I. Gallery – Porto 2001 – Participation on the Amakusa Ceramics Festival, Hondo, as guest artist, representing Portugal – Carrying through a workshop about Portuguese Traditional Tiling – Exposition of ceramic sculptures in the City Hall of Amakusa.2003 – Coordination and post-Exhibition of the workshop in ceramics on the XIIBienal03 of Vila Nova de Cerveira2003 – Presentation of two video-installations "EntreBarreiras" e "XIIBienal03 a preto e branco – Os Gestos_Os Espaços_As Mãos" 2003 – Exhibition in the A.M.I. Gallery – Porto 2005 – Exhibition in the Bobogi Gallery – Aveiro 2006 - Exhibition in the AvizArte Gallery - Porto

Individual exhibitions

1986 – "D" Gallery – Gondomar 1990 – Labirintho Gallery – Porto 1993 – Magellan Gallery – Paris 1996 – Labirintho Gallery – Porto - 1996 – Aveiro City Hall Gallery – Aveiro 2000 – Epicentro Gallery - Porto 2001 - Pottery Museum of Barcelos - Barcelos

Awards

1989 – 1st Prize in the II Art Exhibition-Small Size – Cooperativa Árvore – Porto 1989 – Honour Distinguished in the "Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica de Aveiro" – Aveiro 1991 – 1st Prize in Creative Ceramic Art – I.E.F.P.

Collections