Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego is a Portuguese-born visual artist who is particularly known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. Rego’s style has evolved from abstract towards representational, and she has favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. Her work often reflects feminism, coloured by folk-themes from her native Portugal.
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, GCIP, is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza and in Portugal as Siza Vieira.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, also known simply as the Gulbenkian Museum, is a major encyclopedic art museum in Lisbon, Portugal, in the civil parish of Avenidas Novas. As part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, one of the wealthiest foundations in the world, the Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the largest private collections of art in the world. It encompasses the art of the world from antiquity forward, and was the private collection of a single man, oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian.
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso was a Portuguese painter.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, commonly referred to simply as the Gulbenkian Foundation, is a Portuguese institution dedicated to the promotion of the arts, philanthropy, science, and education. One of the wealthiest charitable foundations in the world, the Gulbenkian Foundation was founded on 18 July 1956 according to the last will and testament of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, a Portugal-based oil magnate who bequeathed his assets to the country in the form of a foundation.
António Chagas Rosa is a Portuguese composer of contemporary classical music, considered one of the leading figures of contemporary musical writing of his generation.
Júlio Artur da Silva Pomar, GOL, GCM was a Portuguese painter and visual artist. He was often considered the greatest Portuguese painter of his generation.
João Edmundo Lemos Carqueijeiro was born in Lobito, Angola on 25 February 1954. He is a Portuguese plastic artist.
António Dacosta was a Portuguese painter, poet and art critic and a pioneer of the surrealistic movement in Portugal.
Serralves is a cultural institution located in Porto, Portugal, and one of the most important institutions worldwide, raking in the top 100 most visited museums in the world. It includes a Contemporary Art Museum, a Park and a Villa, each one an example of contemporary architecture, Modernism, and Art Deco architecture. The Museum, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, is now the second most visited museum in Portugal and one of the most relevant in the contemporary art circuit in Europe.
António Lagarto GOIH is a Portuguese set and costume designer and artist.
Manuel Casimiro is a Portuguese painter, sculptor, designer and film director. He was born in Porto, Portugal, where he is currently living. Manuel Casimiro has spent a large part of his life living abroad, especially in Nice, France where he went to live after he was wounded in Portuguese Angola during the Portuguese Colonial War.
Alexander Ponomarev is a multidisciplinary contemporary visual artist. He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture "for merits in literature and art" in 2008.
Manuel Botelho is a Portuguese artist. He lives and works in Estoril, Portugal, and teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon.
Sofia Areal is a Portuguese abstract painter, who has a strong chromatic focus, whose works adhere mostly to organic non-geometrical forms. Besides painting and drawing, Areal's work also focuses on collage, textile design, and scenography.
Alberto Carneiro was a Portuguese artist.
Francisco Tropa is a Portuguese sculptor and visual artist. He lives and works in Lisbon.
Andrés Fernández Alcántara is a Spanish sculptor, engraver and painter. He lives and works in Alcala de Henares, Spain.
Ignasi Aballí is a Spanish artist. He has exhibited at the Venice Bienniale, the Gwangju Bienniale and also the Sydney Bienniale. Aballí received the prestigious Joan Miró prize in 2015.
João Onofre is a Portuguese visual artist. A relevant contemporary artists in Portugal, he has achieved from an early stage international recognition, having his first solo exhibition in 2001, at I-20 Gallery in New York. Since then, he has made over 35 solo shows and taken part in over 200 group exhibitions in both Portuguese and in International museums and galleries. He lives and works in Lisbon.
