Martinho Dias

MARTINHO DIAS, (b. 1968) is a Portuguese artist. He have a Master degree in Fine Arts - Painting, by Oporto University.


Martinho Dias was illustrator and teacher of Visual Arts until 2009. Since then, he started to dedicate himself full time to artistic activity with works represented in several publications. His work has been distinguished and displayed in many individual and collective exhibitions, both in Portugal and abroad.

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"My work is mostly figurative and my main theme is a social one, playing with society's different powers and privileged social layers, mixed with a generous portion of irony and humour circling many paradoxes".

My initial material and subjects are manly from press media, art history and Internet. I am a manipulator and I am also an image/context ‘agitator’, contributing to reality new meanings and narratives. The photographic images are used as "models" to my pictorial compositions. What I do consists of removing several of today’s leading public figures of their comfortable sets offering in return, as often as possible, some degree of discomfort".
(Martinho Dias, 2015)

The process:

"I don't usually make preparatory drawings and sketches on paper; it is more conven...

Master degree - Painting (2013) and Fine Arts degree (1996), by Oporto University - Faculty of Fine Arts.

Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020
- TRIGGER, Espaço Exibicionista gallery, Lisbon
- FEATHERS, Centro Cultural e Congressos Caldas da Rainha, Portugal;
2019
- OFFICE, O Rastro Gallery, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
2017
- PAROXETINE, MAC Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal;
- airOPORTO, Soares dos Reis National Museum, Oporto, Portugal;
2016
- A CORJA [the scum], Casa das Artes, V.N. Famalicão, Portugal;
- TRADE MARK, Zeller Gallery, Espinho, Portugal;
2015
- LIES AND OTHER TRUTHS, Gallery 5, Guimarães, Portugal;
- UP, Red Nankim Gallery, Oporto, Portugal; 
 - MARTINHO DIAS: 005’015, Espinho Municipal Museum, Espinho, Portugal;
2014
- I BELONG TO MYSELF, MAC Gallery, Lisbon. Portugal;
- PO(L)VO [octopus vs people], O Rastro Gallery, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
2011
- CIRCUMSTANCE, São Bento Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal;
2009
- STAGES, Del Veinte Gallery, Santander, Spain;
- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Servartes – Cultural Space, Oporto, Portugal;
2008
- DIALOGUES AND MONOLOGUES, O Rastro Gallery, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
2007
- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Santos Rocha Museum, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
- APPLAUSE, São Bento Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal;
2006
- APPLAUSE, Galeria Cañizares, Salvador - Bahia, Brazil;


Selected GR...