João Francisco Vilhena

João Francisco Vilhena is a Portuguese photographer. As an artist, he had several exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, for a time he worked as a photojournalist and collaborated with several magazines and newspapers in Portugal and abroad

-October 1997, individual exhibition "Casas de Escritores", Literaturhaus, Frankfurt, Germany

-November 1998, individual exhibition "José Saramago, uma voz contra o Silencio", Grande Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden, at the time of the Nobel Prize for Literature ceremony

-January 2001, individual exhibition "Ilustradores Ilustrados" 25 portraits of Portuguese Illustrators, Bedeteca de Lisboa, Portugal
The same exhibition was presented in Porto, Estremoz and Palmela

-February 2001, collective exhibition "Cem imagens,cem legendas",photography, Museu de arte contemporanea, Serralves Foundation, Porto and Centro cultural de Belem, Lisboa, Portugal

-April 2002, individual exhibition "O quarto de Trotsky", Convento de Montemor, Portugal

-October 2002, individual exhibition and co-authorship, in cooperation with architect Luisa Pacheco Marques, of the Portuguese Pavilion at Liber 2002, Barcelona, Spain

-April 2003, individual exhibition "Pessoa em Durban" photography and video, Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisboa, Portugal

-April 2004, individual exhibition "Pessoa Revisited", Irish Writers Center, Dublin, Ireland

-December 2004, individual exhibition "Pessoa&Co", installation, photography and video, Yapi Kredi, Istanbul, Turkey...