JÚLIO DE MATOS's BIO
March 2010
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Júlio de Matos was born in Braga, Portugal. He became interested in photography at an early age, and in black and white darkroom work. He also had commissions for portrait work.
In 1974, he trained in Industrial Design with Gerald Gulotta of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, USA, attending the Industrial Design Workshop 74. In 1976, he completed the Architecture Course at Porto School of Fine Arts.
He improved his knowledge of photography thanks to the ITT - International Fellowship granted to him through the Fullbright-Hays Scholarship Program to study for a post-graduate MFA in Photography as a Fine Art at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA, from 1979 to 1981.
Part of his initial work deals with and explores interconnections, between manual skills, photographic techniques, and alternative photographic processes, with vision, content and significance.
Recently he carried out photographic projects, that resulted from his multiple trips to Asia, that shows his concern with the survival and extinction of ancestral cultures: “Ta Prahom - The Memory of the World” (Cambodia, 2001), “Heaven’s Door - Manikarnika Ghat” (India, 2003), “Fading Hutongs” (China, 2005-2008). “Casas de Brasileiro”, (Portugal, 2008), follows this state of mind.
His latest photographic series “Flat Water”, carried out in the North of Portugal, deals with digital interventions as a way to question the apparent three-dimensionality of a landscape on a photographic print.
SOME RECENT INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
JOURNEY - JÚLIO DE MATOS PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
- Beijing Showgood Art Museum, Beijing, China;
FLAT WATER
- Serpente Gallery, Miguel Bombarda Art District, Porto, Portugal;
- XV Cerveira Biennial Art Festival, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal;
FADING HUTONGS
- Through This Lens Gallery, Durhan, NC, USA;
- Wolk Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- CPF/MC;
- Portuguese Photography Center, Porto, Portugal;
- Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal;
CASAS DE BRASILEIRO
- Museu Nacional, Complexo Cultural da Républica, Brasília, Brasil;
- Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil;
- MAB - Museu de Arte da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil;
TA PRAHOM | THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD
- S. Payo Convent, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal (2007-2008);
NORTH OF PORTUGAL - CONTEMPORARY VISIONS
- Museu do Douro, Régua, Portugal;
- Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de Tui, Spain;
- Fundação D.Afonso Henriques, Zamora, Spain;
- Serralves Library, Porto, Portugal;
- Faculdade de Comunicacion, Santiago de Compostela, Spain;
- Photokina, Digigraphie Gallery, Koln, Germany;
- II Work Photo Epson, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal;
TIME'S NOSTALGIAS
- Freixo’s Palace, Porto, Portugal
- Botanical Gardens, Porto, Portugal;
SOME RECENT BOOKS
- Journey - Júlio de Matos Photographic Exhibition;
- Casas de Brasileiro, Júlio de Matos;
- Flat Water, Júlio de Matos;
- (in) Portuguese Art History: Photography in Portugal;
COLLECTIONS IN WHICH JÚLIO DE MATOS IS REPRESENTED
- Musée de la Photographie, Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium;
- Museum of Contemporary Art at Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal;
- National Photography Collection CPF/MC, Porto, Portugal;
- PLMJ Collection, Lisbon, Portugal;
- Lishui Museum of Photography – Zhejiang, China;
- Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal;
- MIT Museum, MA, USA;
- Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil;
- Museu Nacional, Complexo Cultural da Républica, Brasília, Brasil;
- Museu de Arte da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil;
- Macau’s Scientific and Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal;
- EPSON – Portugal;
- BPI - Portuguese Investment Bank, Portugal;
- IEFP - Institute of Employment and Professional Training, Portugal;
- RIT, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA;
- Sonae Collection, Porto, Portugal;
EPSON support since 2003
Digigraph Artist since December 2007
Represented by Galeria Serpente in Porto, Portugal.
© 2009-2011 All Photographs and texts by Júlio de Matos | All rights reserved | © Júlio de Matos, 2009-2011