João Onofre
Born in Lisbon in 1976.
Lives and works in Lisbon.

Education
MFA - Goldsmiths College, London.
Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon.

Solo Exhibitions:

2007
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona.

2006
I-20 Gallery, New York

2005
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona.
Roma Roma Roma Gallery, Roma

2004
João Onofre, Magazine 4. Bregenz.
Making of, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon

2003
Nothing will go wrong, Centro Galego Arte Contemporanea - Santiago de Compostela.
Nothing will go wrong, Museu do Chiado - Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea. Lisbon.
João Onofre, Kunsthalle Wien. Project Space Karlsplatz. Wien.

2002
P.S. 1 - MOMA Contemporary Art Center. New York.
Galeria Toni Tàpies. Barcelona.
Ileana Tounta Gallery. Athens.
Programa Art Center. Ciudad de Mexico.
Herzliya Museum of Art. Telaviv.

2001
I-20 Gallery. New York

Group Exhibitions (Selection):

2008
Trust me, Charles H. Scott Gallery- Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver
Collection Videos & Films Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaitre, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel

2007
Köln Show2 -what will be told of today tomorrow, European Kunsthalle -Spruth Magers Gallery, Köln
Das exponierte Tier, Kiss Museum, Untergröningen
Escucha con tus ojos, Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona
Où ? Scènes du Sud : Espagne, Italie, Portugal, Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Nimes
ATTITUDE! , Iconoscope, Montpellier
Blind date, Magazzino d’arte moderna, Roma
Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum Harlem, NYC
Fundación Suñol- Collección Marc e Josée Gensollen, Barcelona
Video, An Art, A History 1965-2005 New Media collection, Centre Pompidou, Sydney- Contemporary Art Museum and Melbourne- Australian Centre for the moving image ACMI
EXISTENCIAS, Musac, Leon
Bird Watching, Teylers Museums, Haarlem (NL).
Residents, Espace EDF Electra, Paris
50 anos de Arte Portuguesa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
La Vida Privada- Collección Josep Mª Civit, CDAN, Huesca
PORTUGAL AGORA - À PROPOS DES LIEUX D’ORIGINE, Mudam, Luxembourg
Come come come into my world, Ellipse Foundation, Estoril

2006
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Mise en échec, CIRCA, Montréal
Work in progress, Dumbo Art Center, NYC
‘Une vision du monde, selected works from the video art collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad lemaître’, La Maison Rouge Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
Video, An Art, A History 1965-2005 New Media collection, Centre Pompidou, Taipei Fine Art Museum
Retratos e Figuras na Paisagem da Colecção do Museu do Chiado – MNAC, lisboa
Território Oeste, Arte Portugués Contempráneo, MACUF - Museo de Arte Contemparáneo Union Fenosa, A Coruña
Open House, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Estoril
Stopover, Fri-Art Centre d’art Contemporain, Fribourg
neo-con. Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art, Apex Art, NYC and British School at Rome, Roma.

2005
Tiempos de Video 1965 — 2005: The New Media Collection of the Centre Pompidou, CaixaForum, Barcelona
Portugal Novo- artistas de hoje e amanhã, Pinacoteca do estado de São Paulo, São Paulo
HEROS A JAMAIS, CentrePasquArt, Center for Contemporary Art of Biel, Switzerland
Del Zero al 2005, Fundacion Marcelino Botín, Santander
On leaving and arriving, G39 center, Cardiff
Desvelar lo Invisible, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid
Em Fractura, Hangar K7 Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras
Lágrimas, Mosteiro de Alcobaça, Alcobaça
Camera Fissa, Franco Noero Gallery, Turin
Portugal, Outras Alternativas, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico city
Magic, Vamiali’s gallery, Athens

2004
Animals, Haunch of Venison gallery, London
Dirty Boulevard, Lyon
Animaux-Of Animals and Humans, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Switzerland
Drawn by Reality - encapsulated in life, Wood Street Galleries/SPACE, Pittsburgh.
Situation Comedy, Independent curators International, New York
Ne me touche pas, Villa Vauban, Luxembourg

2003
Plunder – Culture as Material, DCA, Dundee
Images for society- Kunsthalle Thun, Switzerland
La Caja Negra, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
(just Stand There!)MIT - List Visual Art Center. Cambridge MA.
Anemic cinema, Sketch gallery. London
Paris is burning , Entwistle gallery. London
Interval, Vistamare Art Center. Pescara.
Come Rally, MARCO. Vigo & ARTIUM. Victoria- Gasteiz
Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2002
Fair Play - De Nouvelles Règles du Jeu, Fondation d’Art Contemporain Guerlain. Les Mesnuls.
Human Interest, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia.
Technology + Human Response, Sun Valley Centre for the Arts, Sun Valley. Idaho.
Slow Motion - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisbon/ Estgad Caldas da Rainha.
Video Art Programme - Sidney Biennal. Sidney.
Video Zone, 1st International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv

2001
Espelho Negativo, Teatro do Campo Alegre. Porto.
Wattage and Friendship, Mullerdechiara Gallery. Berlin.
Situation 0: Recent Portuguese Art, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts. San Francisco.
Antartica, Entwistle Gallery. London.
La Biennale di Venezia. 49th International Exhibition of Art - Plateau of Humankind, Venice.
Biberstein, Cesár, Onofre, Sarmento, Sendas, Toscano, Cristina Guerra contemporary art. Lisbon.
Milano Europa 2000 - Fin-de-Siècle, The Seeds of the Future, Palazzo de la Triennale. Milano.
BIDA, Valencia Bienal. Valencia.
União Latina Prize, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisbon.
My Generation, Atlantis Gallery. London.
New Releases, Gallery 4A – Asia - Australia Arts Centre. Sidney.
Opponents, Paraplufabriek. Nijmegen.
Disseminações, Culturgest. Lisbon.

2000
Performing Bodies, Tate Modern. London.
The Mnemosyne Project, CAPC. Coimbra.
Plano XXI - Portuguese Contemporary Art, Intermedia Gallery. Glasgow.
XXVI Bienal de Pontevedra. Pontevedra.
Arritmia, Mercado Ferreira Borges. Oporto.
I Hate New York, Rove - Shoreditch High St.. London.
Sweet & Low, Rove - Lispenard St.. New York.

João Onofre

MONOGRAPHIES
Charlesworth, JJ -Expressive Malfunctions. Matt, Gerald –An interview with João Onofre. João Onofre Bregenz: Magazin 4 Voralberger Kunstverein, 2004.
Vidal, Carlos - João Onofre: That which never happens. Porto: Mimesis, 2003.
Schwendener, Martha – Experimental Machines. Barcelona: Galeria Toni Tàpies, 2003.
Lapa, Pedro –Propositions, gimnastics and video. Lisbon: Museu do Chiado – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, 2003.
Obrist, Hans-Ulrich- Cell phones, cigarretes and performances(ceci n’est pas un trilogie) Lisbon: Museu do Chiado – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, 2003.
Lapa, Pedro – And yet.. so Different. New York: I-20 Gallery, 2001.

GROUP CATALOGUES (selection)
Edelsztein, Sergio 10 Curators, 100 Contemporary Artists, 10 Source Artists, - Ice Cream, Phaidon, 2007
Vidal, Carlos Carré d’Art – Nîmes, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes Où? Scénes du Sud: Espagne, Italie, Portugal, Nîmes 2007
Collection Nouveaux medias-, la collection du Centre Pompidou-Musée national d´art moderne - Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006
Scneider, Christiane -Animals looking at us, London, Haunch of Venison Gallery, 2004
Situation Comedy, Independent Curators International, New York, 2004
Schuppli, - Gesellsc Madeleine haftsbilder, Kunstmuseum Thun, 2003
Lorca, Pablo – Cine y casi cine. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2002.
Vidal, Carlos – Imagens sem disciplina. Lisboa: Vendaval, 2002.
Levin, Dalia – Video Art papers: João Onofre. Telaviv: Herzlyia Museum of Art, 2002.
Lapa, Pedro – Espelho Negativo. Porto: Teatro Campo Alegre, 2001.
Lapa, Pedro – João Onofre La Biennale di Venezia. 49th International Exhibition of Art - Plateau of Humankind. Venezia: Electa, 2001.
Szeemann, Harald – La Biennale di Venezia. 49th International Exhibition of Art - Plateau of Humankind. Venezia: Electa, 2001.
Melo, Alexandre – Milan Europe 2000 - The End of the Century. The Seeds of the Future. Milano: Electa, 2001.
Lapa, Pedro – Disseminações. Lisboa: Culturgest, 2001.
Neves, Joana – Projecto Mnemosyne. Coimbra: Encontros de Fotografia de Coimbra, 2000.
Sardo, Delfim – XXVI Bienal de Pontevedra. Pontevedra: Diputación de Pontevedra, 2000.
Pinharanda, João Lima – 7 Artistas ao 10º Mês. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1999.
Vidal, Carlos – Corpo e Representação. III Bienal de Arte AIP’98. Porto: Associação Industrial Portuense, 1998.

PRESS ARTICLES (selection)
Tolosano, Elisabetta, `João Onofre – Franco Noero, Flash Art, October /November 2007
Stolz, George, “João Onofre”, Art News, October 2007
Amado, Miguel, João Onofre – Galeria Franco Noero, artforum online critic’s picks, 22/10/07
Manen, Martí, ‘Playing Myself’, A-Desk, 02/04/07
Puig, Arnau, ‘Aquello que no se es’, ABC. ABCD, 24/03/07
Oliver, Conxita, ‘Situacions ambigües’, Avui. Art, 22/03/07
Molina, Ángela, ‘Ciencia-ficción’, El País. Babelia, 17/03/07
Palau, Maria, ‘Creació artística intel•ligent’, El Punt, 13/03/07
Bufill, Juan, ‘João Onofre expone sus retratos de
sepultureros sonrientes en la Ton Tàpies’, La Vanguàrdia, 14/04/07
Vidal Oliveras, Jaume, ‘Vanitas contemporáneas’, El Mundo. El Cultural, 08/03/07
Miró, Neus, ‘João Onofre, Exit Express # 26, Mar 2007
Miró, Neus, ‘R.I.P.’, Benzina # 03, Mar 2007
Gerogianni, Irene. "Magic, Athens: Vamiali's Gallery, " Contemporary (May 2006): Issue 78, Reviews
"João Onofre at I-20,” Time Out New York (October 5 — 11, 2006): Art, Listings, Recommended
V.O., J., ‘João Onofre’, Arte y Parte #67, Feb-Mar 2007
Molon, Dominic, ‘João Onofre´, Contemporary #71 on video, 2005
Aliaga, Juan Vicente, ‘João Onofre , Nothing will go wrong-CGAC’, Artforum, New York, february 2004
Kent, Sarah. “Animal experiments,” Time Out London (August 25 – September 1, 2004)
Barker, Godfrey. “Art & Antiques,” The Field, (August 2004)
Sumpter, Helen. Art: Animals, “Beastly Behaviour,” The Big Issue (July 12 – 18, 2004)
The Five Best Exhibitions,” The Independent, (July 2, 2004)
Jones, Jonathan. Art, “Can a vulture be culture?” The Guardian (June 30, 2004)
Crespo, Nuno, O fabrico das Imagens, Público #5231, Lisbon June 2004
Ruivo, Ana, Vertigo, Expresso- Cartaz# 1650 Lisbon, June 2004
Melo, Alexandre, Other Alternatives, ArtForum #9, New York, May 2004
Lutz, Kathrin, João Onofre, Kunstforum Summer, Germany, 2003
Melo, Alexandre, ‘Portugal XX1, a primeira decada’, Actual Expresso#1067 lisboa
Vidal, Carlos, João Onofre. Lápiz. Madrid. May. 2003.
Allegri, Alessia, & Campos Costa, Pedro. D’ars #176, Milan, 2003
Porfírio, José Luís- Nada correrá mal, Actual- Expresso #1591 Apr. Lisbon, 2003
Cooner, Jill – João Onofre. Art Papers, vol. 26. Atlanta. Mar. - Apr. / Abr. 2002.
Faria, Óscar-Um Trabalho sobre a Resistência-Público 26/06/02
Schwendener, Martha – João Onofre. Artforum. New York. Dec./Dic. 2001.
Storr, Robert – Harry’s Last Call. Artforum. New York. Sep. 2001.
Soutif, Daniel – Pick to click. Artforum. New York. Sep. 2001.
Vetrocq, Marcia E. – Biennale babylon. Art in America. New York. Sep. 2001.
Vidal, Carlos – Tecnicismo, vídeo, política y corporalidad. Lápiz. Madrid. Jun. 2001.
Vidal, Carlos – A Margem dos passáros está a realidade (Díalogo com João Onofre).
Arte Ibérica. Lisbon 2001
Perez Rubio, Augustín – Next Please. Arco Notícias #20. Madrid. Apr./Abr. 2001.
Vieira Jurgens, Sandra – Do outro lado do ecrã. Ar.qa. Lisboa. Mar.-Apr./Mar-Abr. 2001.
Barenblit, Ferran – Imagen Y Realidad - Fotografia, vídeo y otros procesos de la imagen, El Correo de Arco. Madrid. Feb. 2001.
Coomer, Martin-I hate New York,Time Out -15/06/00, London
Jürgens, Sandra Vieira – Plano XXI - Portuguese Contemporary Art Exhibition Journal, Glasgow, 2000.

Collections:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Centre Georges Pompidou-MNAM/CCI, Paris
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo
Musac, León
La Caixa, Barcelona
MACS – Museu de Serralves, Porto
Luso-American Foundation for Development-MACS, Porto
Eileen & Peter Norton Collection,
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, CAM, Lisbon
Museo Ibero-Americano de Arte Contemporânea, Badajoz
GAM –Galeria D’Arte moderna e contenporanea, Torino
Museu do Chiado- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Fonds Régional d’art Contemporain Corse, Corsica

Private collections in:
Marseille, New York, Minneapolis, Estoril, Cascais, London, Lisboa,
Badajoz, Palma de Maiorca, Athens, Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Berlin, Turin, Zurich, Minnesota, Miami.