Student at “António Arroio” in the 70s. Co-creator of “Atelier Livre”, author of several exhibitions at that school.
Works selected for Lis81, an exhibition that burned down.
He lived and collected antiquities in the former Zaire. Collector, specifications of the first themed auction of African art at Leiloeiros de Silva in 1990. Collaborated at Galeria Valentim de Carvalho and Galeria Moira.
He was a film producer, and, in multimedia, he was co-founder in 1992 of “IMAGinE+”. Information Technology Consultant for RTP and RDP in the early years of the Web. At Expo98, he produced four CD-ROMs, one of which was awarded. He managed the Blind Zero CD-Extra for Valentim de Carvalho. He adapted the “Hugo” CD-ROMs for Costa do Castelo, Filmes into Portuguese. He managed ParaRede’s interactive television team.
After 2002, he left Timor where he collected information for his book, which would later be the theme of the exhibition he curated, “Weapons and Artefacts of Timor”, and then organized the conference “Heaven and Earth” at the Center Culture of Belém.
He wrote for Público, Independente, Casa Cláudia and Artes & Leilões, among others. He was the author of three novels.
He produced interactive exhibitions at Humberto Delgado Airport in Lisbon and Cristiano Ronaldo Airport in Madeira.
He collaborated with the Manufactura de Tapeçarias de Portalegre, between 2017 and 2022, having curated three exhibitions. He edited Cruzeiro Seixas’ last sculpture in bronze. He created a collection of PJV-MTP silk sheets, inspired by tapestries. It started with Siza Vieira, a luxury box project, in partnership with Maria João Bahia.
He has lived in Spain since 2023, where he organizes a new art project with Spanish and Portuguese artists, taking care of the Iberian cultural exchange for the biennium 2024 to 2025.
He manages his art gallery and regularly participates in the Lisbon Art and Antiques Fair.