JOÃO PENALVA was born in Lisbon in 1949. He studied at Chelsea School of Art, in London, where he has lived and worked from 1976. He was awarded the DAAD Berlin Artist's Residency in 2003.
He represented Portugal in the XXIII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, 1996, and the XLIX Biennale di Venezia, 2001. He exhibited also in the Berlin Biennale 2, 2001, and the Biennale of Sydney, 2002. Solo exhibitions include: CCB, Lisbon, 1999; Camden Arts Centre, London; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Tramway, Glasgow, 2000; Rooseum Center for Contemprary Art, Malmö, 2002; Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, and The Power Plant, Toronto, 2003; Serralves Museum, Oporto, and Ludwig Museum Budapest, 2005; IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006; DAAD Gallery, Berlin, and Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England, 2007; Lunds Konsthall, Lund, and Chiado 8, Lisbon 2010; CAM, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2011; Brandts Kunsthallen, Odense, 2012; Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, 2014.
His work is present at several public collections, such as: Arts Council Collection, London, UK; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Banco de España, Madrid, Spain; Dresdner Bank, Germany; Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France ; Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain; Fundación Coca Cola, Madrid, Spain; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; MUDAM - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; South Londres Gallery, London, UK; Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain; and ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
EDUCATION
1976-1981 BA and MA Fine Art Degrees, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK
AWARDS & GRANTS
2020
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, UK
2009
Bryan Robertson Trust Award, London, UK
2003
DAAD Berlin Artists Residency, Berlin, Germany
2002
Les Récollets Artists Residency, Paris, France
External Lecturer at the Malmö Art Academy, University of Lund, Malmö, Sweden
2000
Sciart Research Award, London, UK
1980
Bolsa de Estudo, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa| Scholarship Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
João Penalva, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, USA
Pigskin Sandals, Appleton, Lisboa, Portugal
2018
João Penalva, MUDAM, Luxemburgo
Um crime que urge reparar, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
STANLEY, Lumiar Cité, Lisboa, Portugal
2017
João Penalva, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa, Portugal
João Penalva: Herr Peter, LOGE, Berlin, Germany
People on Air, Galerie Thomas Schulte (Corner Space), Berlin, Germany
2016
Fifteen dancers and changeable tempo, The National Ballet of Portugal, Teatro Camões, Lisbon, Portugal
2015
L.R. - Live Relay from the Clock Tower of Porto City Hall, Palácio dos Correios, Porto, Portugal
João Penalva, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2014
João Penalva, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
João Penalva, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
2013
João Penalva - Les mauvaises herbes du Japon, Galerie Sage Paris, Paris, France
Wallenda (Toilet Version), 1997-2013, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London, UK
João Penalva, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, Japan
2012
João Penalva - The Prize Song, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
João Penalva - Works with texts and images, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
João Penalva - Video Works 1999/2007, Berlinische Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011
João Penalva - Trabalhos com texto e imagem, Centro de Arte Moderna - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
João Penalva, Galeria Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2010
João Penalva, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
João Penalva, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
Pavlina e o dr. Erlenmeyer, Chiado 8 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
João Penalva - Video Works 1999/2007, Kino, Lund, Sweden
2009
João Penalva, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
João Penalva, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
2008
João Penalva, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
João Penalva - Live transmission from the clock tower of Vila do Conde Mother Church, Solar - Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Vila do Conde, Portugal
João Penalva - Video Works 1999/2007, Auditório Municipal, Vila do Conde, Portugal
João Penalva - Video Works 1999/2007, Portuguese Cinamathèque, Lisbon, Portugal
João Penalva - Video Works 1999/2007, Museu de Arte Conteporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
336 PEK (336 Rivières), Panopticart at Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
João Penalva, The roar of lions, Goethe-Institut, Lisbon, Portugal
2007
João Penalva, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
João Penalva - the roar of lions, daadgallery, Berlin, Germany
João Penalva, The white nightingale, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2006
João Penalva, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
João Penalva, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2005
João Penalva, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
João Penalva, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
2004
João Penalva, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
João Penalva, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
João Penalva, Kitsune and 336 PEK (336 Rivers), Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2003
João Penalva, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
João Penalva, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
João Penalva, INOVA Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
João Penalva, Kitsune, Interseason, BAK - basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands
João Penalva, 336 PEK (336 Rivers), Open air cinema, Steinhöfeler Park, Steinhöfeler, Germany
2002
João Penalva, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
João Penalva, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
João Penalva (with Matts Leiderstam), Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
João Penalva, The John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
João Penalva, Kitsune, TENT Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands
João Penalva, Kitsune, The long long story night, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2001
João Penalva, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
João Penalva - Violette Avéry, 13 quai Voltaire, Caisse des Dépots et Consignations, Paris, France
João Penalva - R, Pavillion of Portugal, XLIX Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
João Penalva, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
João Penalva, Porta 33, Funchal, Island of Madeira, Portugal
João Penalva, Videos, Cine y Casi Cine, Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2000
João Penalva - Clock, Public Art Development Trust, The Chapel, Middlesex Hospital, London, UK
João Penalva - Mister, fig-1, London, UK
João Penalva, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
João Penalva, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
João Penalva, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
João Penalva - 336 PEK (336 Rivers), Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
1999
João Penalva - 336 PEK (336 Rivers), Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
João Penalva, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
1997
João Penalva, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
The Ormsson Collection, presented by João Penalva, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
1996
Widow Simone (Ent'racte, 20 years), XXIII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Widow Simone (Ent'racte, 20 years), Cleveland, London, UK
João Penalva - Faussone, Agostinho Ricon Peres Porto, Portugal
João Penalva, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
1995
João Penalva, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK
1993
João Penalva, Galeria Atlântica, Porto, Portugal
1992
João Penalva, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, UK
1991
João Penalva, Galeria Atlântica, Porto, Portugal
1990
João Penalva, Centro de Arte Moderna - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1989
João Penalva, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, UK
1987
João Penalva, Sala Atlântica, Galeria Nasoni, Porto, Portugal
1984
João Penalva, Cooperativa Árvore, Porto, Portugal
1983
João Penalva, Galeria de Arte Moderna, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal
João Penalva, Galeria Roma e Pavia, Porto, Portugal
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
XXV. Rohkunstbau: Tenderness - About Common Living, Scholoss Lieberose, Alemanha
2019
Arte em São Bento, São Bento Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
(YOU) Can Speak in the Plura Form, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
The Gaze of Things. Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain
The Source: Works from the South London Gallery Collection, South London Gallery, London
Deep deep down, far far in (and out), Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
30 YEARS BARBARA GROSS GALERIE Part 3, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Voyage to the Beginning and Back, Serralves - Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
2018
Maré, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Quote / Unquote. Between Appropriation and Dialogue, MAAT Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (travelling exhibition)
2017
Metropolis, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, USA
Wither the Winds, Lundskonsthall, Lund, Switzerland
Ornament = Crime?, Bombas Gens Centre d'Art, Valencia, Spain
Whither the winds, Lundskonsthall, Lund, Sweden
Quote / Unquote. Between Appropriation and Dialogue, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London, UK
Electricity: The Spark of Life, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
Versus Rodin: Bodies Across Space and Time, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Un certain Regard - Works from the Norlinda and José Lima Collection, Instituto de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
2016
Trame (Plots) - Reality, Fiction, Art, Cinema, Invention, Spazio Murat, Bari, Italy
Portugal em Flagrante - Operação 2, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
View - Master, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany
EMAP - Save our Souls: Art for a Time of Urgencies, 9th Ewha International Media Art Presentation, Ewha Womans University Campus, Seoul, South Korea
Lines of Dialogue / Linhas de Diálogo, Espaço NovoBanco, Lisbon, Portugal
Limited Access: The Sixth Edition, Aaren Projects, Tehran, Iran
2015
Theory of the Duende, Centro Garcia Lorca, Granada, Spain
Faux Amis, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Déjà Vu: Repetition and Difference, Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Crossovers, Ocat, Shanghai, China
Portugal IV: Clouds Taste Metallic, Videoex Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
Drawing Biennale 2015, Drawing Room, London, UK
Eu (título em construção | I (working title), Espaço Novo Banco, Lisbon, Portugal
Collection Itineraries: Chosen Works of the Collection Coca-Cola, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
Conflict, Time, Photography, Folkwang Museum, Germany
primeira pessoa plural | first person plural, AA Contemporary Art Collection, Coimbra, Portugal
Staatliche, Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
2014
Conflict, Time Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK
Las Lagrimas de las cosas, Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Heritage. Portuguese artists in Navacerrada Collection, Centro de Arte Alcobendas (CAA), Madrid, Spain
Nuit Blanche Video, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
IMMA Collection: Conversations, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia
A book between two stools, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Stock de sons, works from the Collection Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Collège de la Voie Chatelâine, Arcis sur Aube, France
2013
Still - Photograhy at the Museum, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
Summertime Readings, Cesis Art Festival, Latvia
Languages: Entre le Dire et le Faire, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
Sob o Signo de Amadeo: Um século de arte, CAM - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Le Corps de l'Absence, Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Châlons-en-Champagne, France
pensé(z) cinema, Abbaye St André, Centre d'Art Contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France
Colecção Serralves: obras recentes, Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
2012
Orte/Projectionen: The Roar of Lions, Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
Résonances, Centre de créations pour l'enfance, in association with Diffusion de la collection Frac Champagne-Ardenne en région, Tinqueux, France
Trayectorias - Diez años de video y fotografía en la colección Coca-Cola, MEIAC - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain
Ourselves, ACCA Melbourne Festival, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Big Picture III (Szenen/Figuren), Kunstasammlung Nordrhein Wesfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Edge in Landscape, Towner - The Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne, UK
MOVE: Art and Dance since the 1960s, MOCA-National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Arte Portuguesa do Século XX | 1960-2000, MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Clasurada, OTR. Espacio de arte, Madrid, Spain
fotoGRAFISK - Gravure from Niels Borch Jensen Vaerksted for Kobbertryk, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Livre Circulação - Obras da Colecção de Serralves, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Zona Letal, Espaço Vital - Obras da Colecção da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Museu da Imagem em Movimento, Leiria, Portugal
2011
Screaming from the mountain, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Light in Darkness, Western Bridge, Seattle, USA
O que Pertence e o que não Pertence às Palavras, Galeria Baginski, Lisbon, Portugal
Zona Letal, Espaço Vital - Obras da Colecção da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas, Portugal; Museu Municipal de Tavira / Palácio da Galeria, Tavira, Portugal
Move - Kunst und Tanz seit den 60ern, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, Germany; K20 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
O voo do Bumerangue - 10 anos da Galeria Filomena Soares, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Outrageous Fortune - Artists Remake the Tarot, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
Observadores - Revelações, Trânsitos e Distâncias. Um percurso pela Colecção Berardo Museu Colecção Berardo, Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Drawing 2011 Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2010
Display: Objects, Buildings and Space, Experimentadesign, Palácio Quintela, Lisbon, Portugal
Revelations II, Sage Paris, Paris, France
Muito Obrigado - Arte portugués del siglo XXI en la colección Coca-Cola, DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
en construcción 3, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Vigo, Spain
Linguagem e Experiência, Obras da Colecção da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Museu Grão Vasco. Viseu, Portugal; Museu de Aveiro, Portugal
Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Ars Itineris. El viaje en el arte contemporáneo, Museu de lÁrt de la Pell de Vic, Vic, Spain
Broken Fall (Geometric), Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy
Secreto y Artilugio, DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Sobrestructuras, OTR espacio de arte, Madrid, Spain
The Glass Delusion, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
Tirésias - Video de Artistas Made in Portugal, Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, Uruguay
What happens next is a secret, IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2009
Zeigen, Na Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
L'avenir d'une illusion, Passages - Centre d'art contemporain, Troyes, France
Serralves 2009 - Colecção, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Feedbackstage, (in cooperation with Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna), Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
A Mancha Humana/The Human Stain, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain
Pequeña historia de la fotografia, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Prison of Love, OTR espacio de arte, Madrid, Spain
Lá Fora, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2008
Todas as histórias Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
part-ilha, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
One of these things is not like the other things, 1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Lá fora (Artistas Portugueses), Museu da Presidência da República, Viana do Castelo and Lisbon, Portugal
Drawing a Tension - Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
À volta do papel, 100 Artistas, CAMB - Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Oeiras, Portugal
(I'm Always Touched) By Your Presence, Dear - New Acquisitions, IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Call of the Wild, Benveniste Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
All that cinema, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2007
A propos des lieux d'origine - Portugal agora, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Voyage... Evasion, Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
Entre a palavra e a imagem, Centro Cultural de Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal; Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
Descartáveis, Billboard Public Art Project, Lisbon, Portugal
Terra Incognita New, Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA
Circulação Livre/Toll Free, Teatro Lethes, Faro, Portugal
Cinema Paradiso, ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Fabrice Gygi-Vidéothèque mobile, Frac Ile-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris, France
Résidents, Espace EDF/Electra, Paris, France
Outras Zonas de Contacto, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
Contemporary Portugal, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
De dentro, 6 Portuguese Contemporary Artists, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Around the World in Eighty Days, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts / South London Gallery, London, UK
Helga de Alvear - Conceitos para uma colecção, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Eldorado, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Territorio Oeste, Aspectos singulares del arte portugués contemporáneo, Museu de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain
Entre a palabra e a imaxe, Fundación Luis Seoane, A Coruña, Spain
2005
Sports illustrated, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, New York, USA
50 Anos de Arte Portuguesa, CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Del Zero al 2005: Perspectivas del Arte en Portugal, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Quarter, Centro Produzione Arte, Florence, Italy
Itinerarios del Sonido, Plaza del Callao, Madrid, Spain
Thinking of the Outside, St Nicholas Markets, Bristol, UK
Infallible, In Search of the Real George Eliot, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Miradas y Conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, MEIAC - Museo Estremeño e iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
2004
Effort, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain
Dorf in die Metropole, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Seminarium, LandKunstLeben, Steinhöfeler, Germany
Half a century of Portuguese Art 1944-2004, MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
The Dream Island, Noass Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
European portrait 2, XI Rohkunstbau Groß Leuthen, Germany
Éigse, Carlow Arts Festival Carlow, Ireland
Fotografie-Austellung, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
About Corporeality in Editions: Artist Books, Prints and Photography, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
2003
Process - Landscape, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Pegadas de Luz, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Global Village Garden, LandKunstLeben, Buchholz, Germany
Hiroshima Art Document 2003, The Former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan
Continuare, 5a Bienal da Maia, Maia, Portugal
Prophetic Corners, 6th Peripheric Biennial, Iasi, Romania
The Labyrinthine Effect, ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Infallible - In Search of the Real George Eliot, The Gallery at APT, London, UK; Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK
Under Ground, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany
2002
Tech/No/Zone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Body Power / Power Play, Württenbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Diferença e Conflito, O Século XX nas Coleçções do Museu do Chiado, MNAC -Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
...confiture demain et confiture hier - Mais jamais confiture aujourd'hui..., Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
(The world may be) fantastic, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2001
This side and beyond the dream, Sigmund Freud-Museum, Vienna, Austria
Impresiones, Calcografia Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
Cine y Casi Cine, Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Novas Aquisições e Doações, MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Total object complete with missing parts, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Have you got time?, Liebman Magnan, New York, USA
Berlin Biennale 2, Berlin, Germany
Itazu Litho-Graphik, Museum Haus Kasuya, Tokyo, Japan
2000
More works about buildings and food, Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal
Art & Industry 2000 Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand
Initiare, Colecção de Arte Contemprânea IAC/CCB Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Waiting, Mjellby Konstgård, Halmstad, Sweden
Fossick, Sali GIA, London, UK
1999
From Where to Here, Göteborg Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
The Office of Misplaced Events (Temporary Annexe), Lotta Hammer Gallery, London, UK
East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Dots & Loops, MK Expositieruimte, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Fourth Wall, Public Art Development Trust, Royal National Theatre, London, UK
Signs of Life, I Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
1998
Neither / Nor, Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland;
Books as Art, Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham, UK;
Novas Incorporacións, Fundación ARCO - Colección Permanente, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
La sphère de l'intime, Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France
Artistas da Galeria, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Enough, The Tannery, London, UK
1997
Anatomias Contemporâneas, Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal
Enough, Duende, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Urban Mirage; Hiroshima Art Document '97, Hiroshima, Japan
Summer Collection '97, South London Gallery, London, UK
1995
Peninsulares, Galeria Antoni Estrany, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Colecção Manuel de Brito, MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
The day after tomorrow, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Quando o mundo nos cai em cima, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Every Now and Then, Richard Salmon Ltd, London, UK
1991
Coincidências, II Jornadas de Arte Contemporânea, Oporto Old Customs House, Porto, Portugal
Recent British Painting - Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London; Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington
University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; The Drumcroon Gallery, Wigan, UK
Gallery Artists, Turske Hue-Williams, London, UK
Gallery Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, UK
Five Years, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, UK
1990
Four painters from London, Galería Colégio de Arquitectos, Málaga, Spain
Works on Paper, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, UK
1989
Eleven Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, UK
Um olhar sobre a pintura portuguesa contemporânea, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Group Show, Berry Street Open Studios, London, UK
1987
50 Portraits, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Prémio Amadeu de Souza Cardoso, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
V Bienal de Vila Nova de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
VI Bienal de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain
Pintores Portugueses Residentes no Estrangeiro, Galeria Almada Negreiros, Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, Lisbon, Portugal
1981
O Papel Como Suporte, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal
1980
Stowells Trophy 1980, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
New Contemporaries, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
COLLECTIONS
ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Banco de España, Madrid, Spain
BANIF - Banco Internacional do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
BESart - Banco Espírito Santo, Lisbon, Portugal
Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon, Portugal
Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Colección Bergé, Madrid, Spain
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Dresdner Bank, Germany
FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Fundación Coca Cola, Madrid, Spain
Fundación Centro Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografia, San Sebastian, Spain
Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Vigo, Spain
Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação EDP, Portugal
Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Ministry of Culture of Portugal/Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Museu Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
Museu do Chiado, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
South London Gallery, London, UK
Towner - The Contemporary Art Museum for South East England, Eastbourne, UK
Western Bridge, The Bill and Ruth True Collection, Seattle, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)
Allthorpe-Guyton,
Marjorie, Melo, Alexandre Melo, Rosengarten, Ruth Rosengarten, João Penalva,
Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 1990
Archer, Michael,
‘João Penalva’ in The day after tomorrow, Electa, Milan 1994
Barroso, Eduardo Paz, João Penalva, Galeria Atlântica, Porto
1990
Brett, Guy,
‘To Be João Penalva’s Public’, Carnival of Perception, Selected Writings on
Art, Institute of International Visual Arts, London 2004
Brigitte Huck, ‘João Penalva’ in ‘Diesseits und jeseits des Traums’, Sigmund
Freud Museum, Vienna 2001
Carlos, Isabel, Faria, Nuno, Marques, Lúcia, ‘João Penalva’, in Initiare,
IAC/CCB, Lisbon 2000
Courtney, Philip, João
Penalva, Sala Atlântica, Porto 1987
De Oliveira, Nicolas, Installation Art in the
New Millennium, Thames and Hudson, London, 2003
Dean, Tacita,
Millar, Jeremy, Place, Thames and Hudson, London 2005
Eiblmyer, Silvia, Character
and Player, Galerie im Taxispalais/Triton Verlag, Innsbruck and Vienna 2000
Engberg,
Juliana,
‘João Penalva’ in Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial,
Melbourne 1999
Fernandes, João, João
Penalva, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto 1994
Fernandes, João,
João Penalva, English, Irish Museum
of Modern Art, Dublin; Ludwig Museum Budapest; Museu Serralves, Porto 2005
Fisher, Morgan,
Stout, Katharine, João Penalva, Mead
Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, The University of Warwick, Coventry 2007
Francis,
Mark, ‘João Penalva’ and ‘Mark Francis and João Penalva Interview’, in fig-1, Spafax Publishing
in association with Tate: the art magazine, London 2001; Walther Koenig Books,
London 2002
Gisbourne, Mark,
‘A house in the country’, Ein Europäische Portrait 2, Rohkunstbau,
Berlin 2004
Gisbourne, Mark,
‘Narrative of the senses’, CLOCK/TEACH TOUCH — Edition (Boxed silk-screened
audio CDs and cards), Public Art Development Trust, London 2000
Jahn,
Andrea, Christofori, Ralf, ‘João
Penalva’ in Body Power/Power Play, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002
Jeffett,
Wiliam, João Penalva, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, UK 1987
João Penalva, Centro de Exposições, Centro Cultural
de Belém, Lisbon 1999
João
Penalva, Widow Simone, XXIII Bienal
Internacional de São Paulo, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea / Ministry
of Culture, Lisbon 1996
João Penalva, Dublin:
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006
João
Penalva — ‘7 Pinturas’, Galeria Atlântica, Porto
1993
João
Penalva, Arquivos, II Jornadas de Arte Contemporânea,
Câmara Municipal do Porto, Porto,1993
‘João
Penalva and Matts Liederstam in conversation’, in Rooseum Provisorium,
Rooseum, Malmö, 2002
Juncosa, Enrique, ‘Four painters from London’, Galería Colégio de
Arquitectos, Málaga, 1991
Lapa, Pedro, ‘Sense
and Subversion’, R., XLIX Biennale di Venezia, 2001
Lapa, Pedro, ‘R.’ in La
Biennale di Venezia, vol. 2, Electa, Milan 2001
Lapa, Pedro,
‘Repetition against the law’ in João Penalva, Electa, Milan 2001
McKee, Francis,
’Spinning Yarn’; João Penalva, ‘An Introduction to Mister’, in Biennale of
Sydney, Sydney 2002
McKee, Francis and João
Penalva, On the other hand, this is not my voice, Tramway, Glasgow 2000
Penalva, João– Annie Fletcher, ‘Interview,’ in Berlin Biennale 2,
Oktagon Verlag, Cologne 2001
Pinto de Almeida, Bernardo, ‘Um olhar sobre a pintura portuguesa
contemporânea’, Fundação de Serralves, Porto 1988
Putnam, James,
‘João Penalva’ in Art and Artifact, Thames and Hudson, Londres 2001
Renton, Andrew, João
Penalva, ‘The Rabbit and the Genre’, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London,
UK 1989
Rosengarten, Ruth,
João Penalva, ‘Two makes one better’, Galeria Atlântica, Porto 1990
Sans, Jérôme, ‘João Penalva, ‘Entr’acte, 20 years’, in La sphère de
l’intime, Printemps de Cahors, Publications Actes Sud, Arles 1998
The Ormsson
Collection, presented by João Penalva, Museu da Cidade,
Lisbon 1997
Zaya, Octavio, FILES (Mr Yamato artist
project), Museu de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon 2004
MONOGRAPHS
J. Börjesson, J. Penalva, João Penalva, Trondheim kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway, 2014
P. Kyander, João Penalva, Trondheim kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway, 2014
I. Carlos, B. Marchand, J. Nisa, L. Grambye, R. Withers, João Penalva — Works with Texts and Images, CAM – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon/Brandts Kunsthalle, Odense, Denmark, 2011
Marchand, Bruno, João Penalva, Chiado 8 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2010
Nacking, Åsa, Kreuger, Anders, João Penalva, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, 2010
B. Marchand, João Penalva — Pavlina e o Dr Erlenmeyer, Chiado 8 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2010
Å. Nacking, A. Kreuger, João Penalva, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, 2010
Penalva, João, Spaces between 5 chairs, edição Galeria Filomena Soares, Azinhagas e Ribanceiras Edições, Lisbon, 2008
Hasegawa, Yuko, João Penalva, Looking up in Osaka, edição Galeria Filomena Soares, Azinhagas e Ribanceiras Edições, Lisbon, 2008
M. Fisher, K. Stout, João Penalva, Mead Gallery, The University of Warwick, Coventry, 2007
J.Fernandes, J. Penalva, João Penalva, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Museum Budapest Museum of Contemporary Art, Serralves Museum, Porto, 2005
G. Brett, M. Gisbourne, Y. Hasegawa, J. Penalva, P. Lapa, João Penalva, IAC, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea/Ministério da Cultura, in association with Electa, Milan P. Lapa, João Penalva, R., IAC, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea/ Ministério da Cultura, Lisbon, 2001
F. McKee, J. Penalva, On the other hand, this is not my voice, Tramway, Glasgow, 2000
S. Eiblmyer, Character and Player, Galerie im Taxispalais/Triton Verlag, Innsbruck/Wien J. Penalva, 336 PEK, Frac Languedoc-Roussillon and Camden Arts Centre, London and Montpellier, 2000
I. Carlos, J. Penalva, A. Leite, The Ormsson Collection, presented by João Penalva, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, 1999
I. Blazwick, D. Cameron, J. Cruz, J. Engberg, A. Wilson, J. Penalva and A. Renton, João Penalva, Centro de Exposições, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, 1997
J. Penalva, A. Renton, João Penalva, Widow Simone, (Entr’acte, 20 years), Instituto de Arte Contemporânea/Ministério da Cultura, Lisbon, 1996
J. Fernandes, João Penalva, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, 1994
G. Jones, G. Hedley, A. Renton, J. Penalva, João Penalva — 7 Paintings, Galeria Atlântica, Porto, 1993
E. Paz Barroso, João Penalva, Galeria Atlântica, Porto R. Rosengarten, João Penalva, Galeria Atlântica, Porto, 1990
M. Allthorpe-Guyton, A. Melo, R. Rosengarten, João Penalva, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1990
A. Renton, João Penalva, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, 1989
W. Jeffett, João Penalva, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London P. Courtney, João Penalva, Galeria Nasoni, Porto, 1987
DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON THE
ARTIST
Character
and Player,
55 min. Directed by Luis Alves de Matos, RTP 2, 2002
Bildjournalen, 12 min. Directed by
Pontus Kyander, Swedish Television, 2002
João Penalva, 1993-1998, 35 min. Valentim de
Carvalho for CCB, Lisboa 1998
Bildjournalen, 5:47 min.
Directed by Pontus Kyander, Swedish Television, 1997