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Mauro Cerqueira
Biography
Mauro Cerqueira (Guimaraes, 1982). He lives and works in Porto.
He has participated in many solo exhibitions at international institutions such as Casas num Beco in MALA, Lisboa, Portugal (2024); O Suor da Noite en Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal (2022); Soltar a Cadeia, en Espaço Mira, Porto, Portugal (2021); Desenganar, en Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal (2019); ‘Dripping Wax’, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid (2017); ‘Streaming Down’, Institute for New Connovative Action, Seattle (2017); ‘Irmão dos homens todos’ con Pedro Wirz, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (2016); ‘Cismadores’, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo (MARCO, 2015); ‘Uma Certa America’, Galeria Marias Centeno, Lisboa (2015); ‘Ter que falar’, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid (2013); ‘O mundo dos cegos’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2012); ‘Senhor dos Aflitos’, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra (2011); ‘China’, Antigo Posto dos Correios, Castelo Branco (2011).
He has also participantes in group exhibitions such as: ‘Conversas: Arte Portuguesa na Coleçao de Serralves’, Museu de Serralves, Oporto (2016); ‘Narrativas Monumentales’, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa (MAC, 2016); A Coruña; ‘Fins I tot un paisatge tranquil…’, Centre Civic Can Felipa Barcelona (2015); ‘El Publico’, Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada (2015); ‘Aprender a Caer’, Inéditos, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2014), o ’12 Contemporáneos-Estados Presentes’, Museu de Serralves, Oporto (2014).
Cerqueira has been in several residencies including Los Ángeles, Günsterode, Melsungen, Alemania; Terra Incógnita, Arquipélago centro de Artes, IIhaTerceira, Açores, Portugal; Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, Florida, USA; Grant João Hogan, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany or Ateliê Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil.
His work is included in several international public and private collections such as: Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Rauschenberg Foundation, Florida, USA; Museu de Arte Contemporanea Elvas, Portugal; Meana & Larrucea Collection, Spain; Olor Visual Collection, Spain; or , the Lázaro Collection, Spain.