João Louro
Lisbon, Portugal, 1963
Lives and works in Lisbon.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005 Naked Drawings, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon.
2004 Blind Runner, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon.
2001 Epicentro, Estudo sobre a Origem das Línguas, Cristina Guerra
Contemporary Art, Lisbon.
2001 La Pensée et l'Erreur, (curated by Ferran Barenblit), Fundació Joan Miró,
Barcelona.
2001 Love Scenes, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (ECO.), Coimbra.
2001 Aplauso, Ensaio sobre os Dados Imediatos da Consciência, Serralves
Foundation / Silo Cultural Space, Oporto.
2000 Runaway Car Crashed #2, (curated by João Fernandes), Serralves Museum
of Contemporary Art (MACS), Oporto.
1999 Run Away Car Crashed #1, Cultural Centre of São Paulo (CCSP), São
Paulo, Brazil.
1998 Eye of the Devil, Ceramics Museum, Caldas da Raínha.
1998 Air Bag, The Return of the Real, (ECO.), National Museum of Contemporary
Art, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon.
1998 Diamond Shine, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (ECO.), Coimbra.
1998 Ibiden. Xerox after Violent Death, Cesar Galeria, Lisbon.
1996 Tokyosony Wonder Museum, Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisbon.
1994 News Hound, Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisbon.
1994 News Hound, Galerie Georges Verney-Carron, Lyon.
1994 I do What Happens, Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisbon.
1994 Sin Servir a su Majestad, Espai Pascual Lucas, Valencia.
1991 King & Kong ? O que aconteceu ao Niilismo?, National Library, Lisbon.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 O contrato social, Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, Lisbon.
2005 Romance [a novel] (curated by Adriano Pedrosa), Cristina Guerra
Contemporary Art, Lisbon.
2005 Insite 05 – Art Practices in the Public Domain, S. Diego/Tijuana
2005 The Experience of Art (curated by Maria de Corral), La Biennale di Venezia,
Venice
2005 Les Marathon des Mots, Toulouse
2003 Into the Breach (curated by Thomas Peutz), Smart Project Space,
Amsterdan.
2003 Liste Basel 03, Smart Project Space, Basel.
2002 EAST International (curated by Lawrence Weiner and Jack Wendler),
Norwich Gallery, Norwich.
2001 Confronto + Mistura, (curated by Ricardo Basbaun), Freixo Power-Station,
Oporto.
2001 UrbanLab, (curated by Paulo Mendes), Maia Bienalle, Maia.
2001 Colecção Banco Privado, (curated by João Fernandes), Serralves Museum of
Contemporary Art (MACS), Oporto.
2000 More Works about Buildings and Food (ECO.), (curated by Pedro Lapa),
Oeiras Foundry, Oeiras.
2000 Portuguese Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
2000 XXVI Bienal de Pontevedra (ECO.), (curated by Maria Corral and Miguel
Perez), Galicia.
1999 Ruído, (curated by Miguel Perez),Cesar Galeria, Lisbon.
1998 Read my Lips…, Centro Cultural de Belém (small auditorium), Lisbon.
1998 Read my Lips…, 6 ème Biennale International du Film sur l'Art, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris.
1997 Ecos de la Materia, Museu Estremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte
Contemporânea (MEIAC), Badajoz.
1997 A Arte pode ser Afirmativa? (ECO.), Culturgest, Lisbon.
1997 ICTM 97, (ECO.), Palácio Galveias, Lisbon.
1997 Ecos de la Matéria 2, Sala de las Atarazanas, Valencia.
1997 Ex. Mater, Museu Estremeño e Iberoamericano, MEIAC, Badajoz.
1997 Art Attack, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon.
1996 Manifesta 96, Rotterdam.
1995 Espectáculo, Disseminação, Deriva e Exílio? Um projecto em torno de Guy
Debord, Metallurgic of Beja, Beja.
1995 Peninsulares, Galeria Tomas March, (curated by João Fernandes), Valencia.
1995 Espai Antoni Estrany, (curated by João Fernandes), Barcelona.
1995 40 ème Salon de Montrouge, (curated by João Pinharanda), Montrouge,
Paris.
1994 Imagens para os anos 90, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (MACS),
(comissariada por António Cerveira Pinto e Miguel Perez), Oporto and
Culturgest, Lisbon.
1994 Fet a Europa, Centre Cultural d'Alcoi.
1993 Made in Portugal, (comissariada por João Louro), Galeria Graça Fonseca,
Lisbon.
1992 Encontros de Fotografia de Braga, (ECO.), Monastery of Tibães, Braga.
1991 V Bienal dos Jovens do Mediterrâneo, Marseille.