1996 - Academic degree in Fine Arts - Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts - Oporto University, Portugal.
Actually, doing a Master in Painting at the same University.

SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection):

2011
- CIRCUMSTANCE, São Bento Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal;
- Group exhibition, Gallery Ao Longe o Mar, Viseu, Portugal;
- “Art in Secret”, group exhibition, Leões Gallery, Oporto, Portugal;
- ART PARIS, International Art Fair, Grand Palais, by Saatchi Online, Paris, France;
- Perfection: Utopia of Women, collective exhibition, MOYA - Museum of Young
Art, Palais Schönborn, Vienna, Austria;

2010
- “8th International Biennial of Arts of Marinha Grande”, by Gallery António Prates - Lisbon, Portugal;
- “Cem República”, group exhibition, Gallery António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;
- Painting group exhibition, Clube Militar de Macau, Galeria 57, Macao, China;
- Collective “CINEMA STORIES II”, Biblioteca Municipal Rocha Peixoto, Póvoa de
Varzim, Portugal;
- “The Flag – Peace&Love on the Global Village”, collective project, Denmark;
- “Info-processing”, painting, Galeria 57, Leiria, Portugal;
- Group exhibition, Galeria o Rastro, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;

2009
- Group exhibition, Galeria O Rastro-Algarve, Portugal;
- STAGES, Del Veinte Galeria, Santander, Spain;
- “16 years of complicity in art”, Centro de Artes e Cultura, Ponte de Sor, Portugal;
- Painting, Casa-Museu Soledade Malvar, V. N. Famalicão, Portugal;
- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Servartes – Espaço Cultural, Porto, Portugal;

2008
- Painting, Biblioteca Municipal de Ponte de Sor, Portugal;
- "Dialogues and Monologues", Galeria o Rastro, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
- "arte x arte" - Bogotá08, Colombia;

2007
- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Museu Santos Rocha, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
- NEW BODY, Espaço Servartes, Porto, Portugal;
- APPLAUSE, Galeria de São Bento, Lisbon, Portugal;
- 2nd Internatioanl Art Fair artMADRID, by Galeria António Prates, Madrid, Spain;
- Collective exhibition, Galeria António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;

2006
- APPLAUSE, painting, Galeria Cañizares, Salvador / Bahia, Brazil;
- 6th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, FIL, by Galeria António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;
- BODY IN EXPRESSION, Espaço Servartes, Porto, Portugal;
- NEW BODY, painting, Clube Literário do Porto, Porto, Portugal;

2005
- 5th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, Galeria Pedro Serrenho, FIL, Lisbon, Portugal;
- Projected Images # Instalations, with Vitor Rua, Nuno Rebelo, Phill Niblock, each others, Casa dos Dias da Água, Lisbon, Portugal;

2004
- Collective exhibition, Galeria Electra, Porto, Portugal;
- “19th Biennial of Illustrations of Bratislava”, Slovak Republic;

2003
- INDISPOSITION, Galeria Santa Clara, Coimbra, Portugal;

2002
- 2nd Baviera Painting Prize, Museu dos Transportes e Comunicações, Porto, Portugal;
- 2nd Painting Biennial Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal;

2001
- Julio Resende National Prize, Gondomar, Portugal;
- 11th International Biennial of Art of Vila Nova de Cerveira; Portugal;

2000
- 1st Painting Biennial Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal;
- 3rd Biennial of Fine Arts of Marinha Grande, itinerant to La Granja, Spain;

1999
- "April Days Exhibition", Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, V. N. de Famalicão, Portugal;
- One of the representatives of Portugal in “The Winsor & Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition” exhibited in The Mall Galleries, London; World Trade Center in Stockholm, Stockholm and United Nations Headquarters, New York;
- Collective exhibition, Galeria Delaunay, Vila do Conde, Portugal
- "11th Biennial of Avante Party", Seixal, Portugal;

1997
- Collective exhibition, Galeria Lagoa, Trofa, Portugal;

1996
- 2nd National Contest - Francisco Wandschneider, EUROPARQUE, Sta. Maria da Feira, Portugal;

1995
- 8th International Biennial of Art of Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal;
- "BCM'95, Painting Prize", Galeria Árvore, Porto, Portugal.


AWARDS:

2007 - 1st Prize, BODY IN EXPRESSION, Espaço Servartes, Porto, Portugal;
2002 - Honor Mention, 2nd Painting Biennial Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal;
2000 - Honor Mention, 1st Painting Biennial Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal;
1983 - Honor Mention, “Shankar’s International Children’s Competition”, New Delhi, India.
- 1st Prize in the competition “Santo Tirso seen by the young”, Portugal.


OTHERS (selection):

– 2010, article in LUXOS TIME magazine, nº 66, July 2010, by Raquel Prates, Lisbon;
– represented in "Annual Art Guide to the Internet - Top Websites 2010", by "NY Arts Magazine", New York;
– 2009, article in EL MUNDO and El Diario Montanez, about the exhibition “Stages”, del Veinte Galeria, Santander, Spain;
– article on the newspapers: O NOTICIAS da TROFA, JORNAL da TROFA, OPINIÃO PÚBLICA and CIDADE HOJE, about the exhibition “Martinho Dias, Painting”, Casa-Museu Soledade Malvar, V. N. Famalicão, Portugal;
– represented in "NY Arts Annual Catalogue", 2009 by "NY Arts Magazine", New York;
– 2008, article in O FIGUEIRENSE, about the exhibition “Dialogues and Monologues”, Galeria O Rastro, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
– 2007, radio interview by ANTENA 2, about the exhibition “Applause”, Galeria de São Bento, Lisbon, Portugal;
– “Fictionalized Spectrum - or the ghost who disturbs”, by Hugo Barata, to the catalogue of the exhibition “Applause”, Galeria de São Bento, Lisbon, Portugal;
– article in EL PUNTO DE LAS ARTES, year VI, nº 386, about the exhibition “Applause”, Galeria de São Bento, Lisbon, Portugal;
– article on the weekly LER and DIÁRIO DE COIMBRA, about the exhibition “Written Paintings”, Museu Santos Rocha, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
– 2006, TV interview by TV-UFBA, Salvador, Brazil, about the exhibition “Applause”, Galeria Cañizares, Bahia, Brazil;
– “Vital Moments in the Work of Martinho Dias”, written by Ed Carlos Santana, Salvador/Bahia, about the exhibition “Applause”, Galeria Cañizares, Bahia, Brazil;
– 2005, text by music critic and writer, Rui Eduardo Paes, about “Written Paintings”, project;
– 2003, article in O DESPERTAR, Coimbra, about the exhibition “Indisposition”, Galeria Santa Clara, Coimbra, Portugal;
– 1983, TV interview by RTP, Portugal, about “Shankar’s International Children’s Competition”, New Delhi, Índia.



Represented by:

– Galeria António Prates, Lisbon;
– Galeria de São Bento, Lisbon,
– ArtElection, Lisbon;
– Galeria O Rastro, Figueira da Foz;
– Galeria 57, Leiria.

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