Education
Luís Fernandes (Portugal) is a visual artist. Graduated in Painting at S.N.B.A. (National Society of Fine Arts), 2003, and Ar.Co (Art and Visual Communication Center) 2009 at Lisbon, while he begin his career as a painter, attended Design at IADE and Communication Design at ETIC, 2008. Post Graduate degree in Digital Marketing, IPAM- European University, 2015, and attended photography at Atelier de Lisboa and also a Post Graduate degree in Contemporary Photography discourses at FBAUL, 2015/16. Postgraduate course in Museology at UAL, 2022. Attended the Masters degree in Photography at Universidade Lusófona, 2023.
Luís Fernandes works on different media: painting, drawing and photography. His work encompasses several projects, reflecting approaches with references from cinema to the ludic power, passing through mythological figures and religious references, he also approaches and appropriates the feminine gender in his characters referent to painting, while reflection seems to have a deep and negligent treatment. . He is interested in the present tense, interpreting a vision in which he sometimes plays the sense in the second person.
Grants and residences
2014 - Participation in the Photography Contest Augusto Cabrita, Portugal.
2015 - FUSO Open Call - International Annual Video Art Festival of Lisbon, Portugal.
2018/19 - Artistic residence in Mart at Lisbon.
2020 - Finalist and honorable mention of the 3rd International Online Arts Competition, organized by the Contemporary Art Room Gallery.
2023 - Artistic residence in Chamusca, at Santarém.
He has held several solo and group exhibitions, where he mention some:
.National Museum of Natural History and Science (MNHNC) - Lisbon, 2003 – Solo exhibition; .Participation at Bienal International of Montijo, 2008, - Group exhibition; .Participation in the collective construction of a moral of a centenary of the birth of the British Artist Francis Bacon at the São Jorge Cinema in the Lisbon, 2009; .Participation in the Photography Contest Augusto Cabrita, 2014 at Barreiro; .Realization of a project for the FUSO Open Call - International Annual Video Art Festival of Lisbon, 2015; .Municipal Library Gallery of Barreiro, 2016 - Solo exhibition; .Collaboration and Masterclass with Shu Lea Cheang, a Pionner in the field in media art National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado (MNAC),in Lisbon, 2017; .Artistic intervention at Sharon Lockhart’s exhibition at Museu Berardo, in Lisbon, 2017; .Participation in Emergentes 2020 - International Photography Award Encontros da Imagem - Photobook Award, Braga; . Municipal Library of Coruchéus, Alvalade, in Lisbon, 2021 - Solo exhibition; . Pavilhão 31, in Lisbon - Group exhibition, theme: "O Tempo enrola, encaracola", 2023.
Collections
S.N.B.A.
Encontros da Imagem, Braga International Photography and Visual Arts Festival
Private collections