Jorge Portela

Jorge Portela was born in Lisbon in 1949. For the last years Jorge Portela has been working on creating innovative art using new digital techniques and exploring limits of painting and photography.

He has found out and proven to himself that the computer era can also be transposed to art, becoming a reviving part of Painting, Sculpting, Photography and other Visual Arts, for it enables the artist to synthesize the Arts status quo and create entirely new art forms. Virtual Art Works also have a far and wider reach potential which was unheard of until today.

For several years now, Jorge Portela has been establishing the foundations for digital painting. He has also conceived the graphic support structure and the technological platform that allows digital painting to circulate easily between different cities from a wide variety of countries, granting a global and international feeling to the work performed by visual artists and allowing a fast cultural exchange.

In the artistic series "7 Virtual Sins" it is clear the photographic presence as a pictorial mutation dynamic, while "Virtual Dance" and "Virtual Jazz" have the same photographic presence on a more conceptual context.

Finally in "Virtual City" and ...

Jorge Portela's first individual painting and drawing exhibit was held at the "Dirio de Notcias" Art Gallery in 1964. He graduated in Law at the Lisbon's Law University. He attended an engraving course at the Portuguese art school ARCO and a photography course at the Portuguese Photography Institute in Lisbon. He also attended the Fine Arts course at the "Paris American Academy" in Paris. In the 90's Jorge Portela started his Digital Series Art work. In 2004 he was invited to a case study for Corel and in 2005 for MyPictureMarc. In that same year he was guest artist at the "Science and Art" Meeting in Arrbida (Portugal), which was organized by the Complexity Sciences Institute promoted by the Orient foundation and the Gulbenkian Foundation. He has also participated in a movie about digital painting for the National Moving Images Archive. He is exhibited at Martins Correia Museum and represented at Boston Cyberarts Festival and Moca - Museum of Computer Arts in New York.

Solo Exhibitions:

Exhibit at "International Market" Lisbon, opening exhibit of the Gallery trio, Lisbon, Travelling exhibition promoted by the Tourism Secretary of State office, the Estoril Casino Art Gallery, "O Pas" Art Gallery, at the Portuguese co...