Jorge Queiroz, Shape of the echo #2, 2023
Born in 1966 in Lisbon (Portugal). Lives and works in Lisbon (Portugal) .
Jorge Queiroz holds a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts de New York (1997-1999) and was resident at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin in 2004.
In 2022, Jorge Queiroz took part in a major exhibition To go to | Jorge Queiroz and Arshile Gorky in which his works were placed in dialogue with those of the artist Arshile Gorky at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon, Portugal). The artist has also been the subject of acclaimed solo exhibitions, including Jorge Queiroz In the Serralves Collection: The Studio at the Serralves Museum (2020, Porto, Portugal), O Caso at the Pavilhao Branco (2015, Lisbon, Portugal) and What paper can support at the Horst-Janssen-Museum (2006, Oldenburg, Germany).
Jorge Queiroz holds a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts de New York (1997-1999) and was resident at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin in 2004.
In 2022, Jorge Queiroz took part in a major exhibition To go to | Jorge Queiroz and Arshile Gorky in which his works were placed in dialogue with those of the artist Arshile Gorky at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon, Portugal). The artist has also been the subject of acclaimed solo exhibitions, including Jorge Queiroz In the Serralves Collection: The Studio at the Serralves Museum (2020, Porto, Portugal), O Caso at the Pavilhao Branco (2015, Lisbon, Portugal) and What paper can support at the Horst-Janssen-Museum (2006, Oldenburg, Germany).
Jorge Queiroz takes part in numerous group shows such as the trio show Liminal zone - Between worlds with Andreas Eriksson and Aelita le Quément at Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren (2024, Germany), Les Péninsules démarrées at FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA (2022, Bordeaux, France), Per amor a l'art - Collection. Ornament = Crime at Bombas Gens Centre d'Art (2017, Valencia, Spain), Vanguardas e Neovanguardas na Arte Portuguesa XX and XXI at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado (2016, Lisbon, Portugal), Geist und form: ten painters from Berlin at Indiana University's Grunwald Gallery of Art (2013, Bloomington, USA), Alphabet, 40 years of Ar. Co at the Museu do Chidao (2013, Lisbon, Portugal), Sous les pavés, la plage! at the Carmona e Costa Foundation (2012, Lisbon, Portugal), Le beau est toujours bizarre C. B at FRAC-Haute Normandie (2009, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, France), Arte Portugues contemporaneo at Circulo de Bellas Artes (2006, Madrid, Spain), En Voyage at FRAC Île de France, le Plateau (2006, Paris, France), Figuração e desfiguraçãoo: inventário de gestos, narrativas e retratos at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (2003, Porto, Portugal).
In 2003, Jorge Queiroz was invited to participate in the 50th Venice Biennale (Italy) curated by Francesco Bonami. He also took part in the 5th Rennes Biennial (2016, France) curated by François Piron, the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006, Germany) and the 26th São Paulo Biennial (2004, Brazil) curated by Alfons Hug.
Jorge Queiroz's works can be found in prestigious private and public collections, including those of MoMA (New York, USA), SF-MoMA (San Francisco, USA), Musée d'Art Contemporain de Funchal (Portugal), Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain (Nîmes, France), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), Deutsche Bank (Frankfurt, Germany), Banque Postale (Paris, France), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (Porto, Portugal), Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal), FRAC Haute-Normandie (Sotteville-les-Rouen, France), Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris, France) and CaixaForum (Madrid, Spain).
Jorge Queiroz is represented by the Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels since 2004.