Biography - Tiwani Contemporary

Tiwani Contemporary
16 Little Portland Street
London W1W 8BP
+44 (0) 20 7631 3808
www.tiwani.co.uk
Francisco Vidal
Portuguese, Angolan and Cape Verdean
Born in 1978, Lisbon, Portugal
Currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal
EDUCATION
2010
MFA | Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, USA
2005
Visual Arts programme | Maumaus School of Visual Arts, Lisbon,
Portugal
2002
Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts | School of Caldas da Rainha,
Portugal
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Focus: Africa Perspectives, Armory Show 2016, New York, NY,
USA
Utopia Luanda Experience – Arquitectura da Paz, Baginski
Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2015
Workshop Maianga Mutamba, Tiwani Contemporary, London,
UK
2014
Água e Luz, Instituto Camões, Luanda, Angola
2012
AIR - African Industrial Revolution (collaboration with Rita
GT), UNAP - National Union of Visual Artists, Luanda, Angola
Agora a seguir e como, Candonga Studio (collaboration with Rita
GT), Museum of the City of Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2011
Candonga's Message no2: Rhino and Elephant, Candonga Studio
(collaboration with Rita GT), National Museum of Natural
History, Lisbon, Portugal
2009
youtube_painting@barbearia_africana.com, Gallery 111, Lisbon,
Portugal
2008
Water, Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal
Ecotone, Gallery 111, Porto, Portugal
2006
Subbus, Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal
Pause 05:05:06, VPFCreamArt, Lisbon, Portugal
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
African Industrial Revolution (A.I.R.), with e-studio Luanda,
Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
Expo Milan 2015 (representing Angola), Milan, Italy
On Ways of Travelling, Angolan Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale,
Italy
Devour Part I (part of Devour! Social Cannibalism, Political
Redefinition and Architecture), with e-studio Luanda, Freies
Museum in cooperation with Savvy Contemporary, Berlin,
Germany
Devour Part III (part of Devour! Social Cannibalism, Political
Redefinition and Architecture), with e-studio Luanda,
KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig, Germany
2014
BAiart16, Luanda, Angola
2013
Angolan Young Artists, National Museum of Natural History,
Luanda, Angola
2012
Luanda's New Paintings, Espaço Bahia, Luanda, Angola
2011
Mabaxa, Triennial of Luanda, Soso Gallery - Contemporary
African Art, Luanda, Angola
Tatoli Ba Kultura, Dili, Timor Leste
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for the Art, Long
Island, USA
2010
ResPublica 1910 e 2010 face a face, Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Povo, EDP Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Bicentennial Exhibition, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago,
Chile
O Dia pela Noite, Lux, Lisbon, Portugal
2009
Em Bragança, Apontamentos de Arte Contemporânea, Centro de
Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal
2008
Á Volta do Papel - 100 Artistas, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito,
Algés, Portugal
Mundos Locias: espacos visibilidades e fluexo, transcuturais,
Centro Cultural de Lagos, Portugal
2007
Troca de Olhares (Exchanging Glances), Instituto Camões, Cidade
da Praia, Cape Verde, and touring to Luanda, Angola and Maputo,
Mozambique.
2006
9370-111, Galeria das Mudas, Calheta, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
2005
EDP Prize, Pavilhão de Portugal, Coimbra, Portugal
Anteciparte, Estufa Fria, Lisbon, Portugal
Architecture As Interim, Maumaus School of Arts, Lisbon,
Portugal
SCHOLARSHIPS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2011
Luso-American Development Foundation / Gulbenkian
Foundation
Edward Mazzella Scholarship
2010
INOV.ART, DGArtes, Ministério da Cultura, Robert Blackburn,
Nova Lorque
2005
Selected for EDP Award - Young Artists
2002
Winner, Young Artists Competition
Selected for 2nd edition of Anteciparte
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
EDP Foundation
PLMJ Foundation
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation