Célia Machado

Born in Angola in the seventies. Lived for a short period of time in Macau and for 18 months in Barcelona. Now, lives and works in Oporto/Portugal

Press Release - April 09

(a minute to) stop measuring is the title of the exhibition from clia Machado that SALA MAIOR GALLERY opens next Saturday, 18th of April
In the last years she has participated in joint exhibitions, contests and prizes, but has been particularly committed in academical activity and the development of a singular artistic work that the Sala Maior Gallery is now proud to show for the first time.
For this exhibition the artist, who also teaches drawing in Universidade Catlica Portuguesa, uses several techniques and materials to think upon the look of each one of us and the society upon others. A look made of measures and absent of affections. A look that many times overrates age, beauty, and fame upon wisdom, love, companionship and solidarity. She uses the artistic tools to accomplish new ways of see giving us the possibility to place face to face and look each other within a shared intimacy ( what we feel, how we feel, what we see, how we look, what leaves marc and the marcs we leave).
Clia Machado uses two female bodies, a young one and a...

Graduated in Fine Arts: Painting - From Academy of Fine Arts/University of Porto/Portugal
Master degree in Aesthetic and Contemporary Art Teory - From Universidade Autnoma de Barcelona/Spain
Prizes:
- 1st Prize - III prize of Erotic Art/Portugal
- Honorable Mention - National prize of Painting, Jlio Resende/Portugal
- Acquisition Prize - ANJE (Associao Nacional dos jovens empresrios)/Portugal
Individual Exhibitions:
2009 - Sala Maior Gallery, Oporto/Portugal
2007 - Public Art in Public Spaces/Portugal
2000 - Factum Gallery, Coimbra/Portugal
Colective Exhibits/Contests:
2009 - Sala Maior Gallery, OPorto
2007 - III Prize of Erotic Art07
2005 - II Prize of Erotic Art, Oporto
2004 - Rui Alberto Space's Gallery, Oporto
2003 - "Dumbanenge" - Project "Help Moambique"
-Rui Alberto Space's Gallery, Oporto
2002 - II Biennial Young artists, Penafiel/Portugal
2001 - National prize of Painting, Jlio Resende/Portugal
- Rui Alberto Space's Gallery, Oporto
2000 - Factum Gallery, Coimbra
1999 III Concurso Nacional dos Jovens nas Artes Plsticas da A.N.J.E. Culturgeste (Lisboa) e Casa do Farol (Porto)
1997 - National prize of Painting, Jlio Resende/Portugal
1996 As obras que a AN...