Rodrigo Costa

Born in September 4, 1952, in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.

My painting has as thematic universe the figure, the composition and the landscape, with no other objective beyond to register moments, people and objects which inspire me the capture; however, each work is itself a little story, a romance that I live along the experimentation.

I'm not interested in creating, integrating or influencing any movement, given I look at the affinity between the author and his themes and the relationship between his thoughts and actions as the most important.

Therefore, my concern is on improving my capacity for expressing my ideas, using the syntheses as a tool for recreate my visions and not as a kind of wrong conspiracy or as subterfuge, trying to respect the models' etymon, the reason of my involvement.

The Naturalism is my starting point...trying to keep on reason and emotion together.

General Course of Visual Arts

1990 - Teatro Rivoli, Porto; 1991- Casa Tait, Porto; 1992 - Portugal Telecom, Porto; 1993- SNBA, Lisboa; 1994 - Galeria Escada 4, Cascais; 1995- Galeria DaVinci, Porto; 1997- Espaço de arte Eugénio Torres, Porto; 1998 - SNBA, Lisboa; Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes, V N de Gaia; 2000 - Galeria ART K, Paris; 2001- Galeria da Casa do Pessoal da RTP, Lisboa; ArtHouse, Casa da Guia, Cascais; Galeria Peppers, Caldas da Rainha; 2004 - Euroarte, Lisboa; 2005 - Galeria DITEC, Lisboa; 2007 - Irish Art Fair, Dublin; Art London, Londres, integrado na Mauger Moder Art; AVIZ, galeria de arte, Porto; 2008 - Mauger Modern Art, Bath UK; 2010 - Anglo-Portuguese Society, Londres; Paula Cabral, galeria de arte, Lisboa; 2012 - Galeria Artes - Solar de Stº António, no Porto; 2016 - Portuguese Medical Association, Porto; 2017 - Espaço Arte Livre, Lisboa; 2018 - Museu de Ovar, Ovar, and Zeller Gallery, Espinho; 2019 - SBN gallery, Porto.

Rodrigo Costa's works have been presented in many collective exhibitions, with particular relevance to the Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition 2012, London; ROI, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 2013, Londres