Born in 1983. During his academic career he carried out intermediate studies in Lyon (France), Bologna (Italy) and Sheffield (England). He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Master from the same Faculty in Drawing Practices and Theories. É Master's degree also from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Porto in the area of Visual Arts.
About your work has already been discussed. Several authors of Portuguese culture wrote, such as Boaventura de Sousa Santos, João Pinharanda, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Fernando António Baptista Pereira, Laura Castro, Gonçalo M Tavares, Ana Zanatti, José Luís Peixoto, Valter Hugo Mãe, Artur Cruzeiro Seixas, Manuel António Ribeiro and Ana Luísa Barão.
2017 – 2020 At the invitation of the Federation with the collaboration of the Committee; Olimpico e Paralympico de Portugal carries out the Institutional work for the celebration of Sport and Olympic Swimming at the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan.
2017-2019 Represents Portugal at the international exhibition “JCE – Young European Creators”.
In 2017, Ana Carmem Nascimento completed her PhD with the dissertation “A social study of images: Meanings and Pluridiversity in the work of Mário Vitória”, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte , Brazil.
Regularly develops covers for books by Boaventura de Sousa Santos in collaboration with publishers in Spain, the United States, Portugal, Brazil and England.
In 2016, at the invitation of the Portuguese Swimming Federation, he carried out the institutional work “Olympic Spirit of Swimming” for the celebration of the FPN and its athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.
He presented his largest work (3x9m) at the 2012 European Capital of Culture. Exhibited at the Alberto Sampaio Museum in Guimarães, Paçdo dos Duques de Bragança, Sines Arts Center, Vila do Conde Memory Center and the Machado de Castro National Museum.
In 2010, he received an institutional commission for the portrait of Former President of the Republic Dr. Mário Soares. The work, measuring 2x4m, is on permanent exhibition in the city of Arcos de Valdevez, the city where the last tribute to the singer was held. life and work of the Politician.
Regularly participates with his work in the event to praise the poetry that takes place monthly for 17 years at Teatro Campo Alegre in Porto, called Quintas de Leitura.
Of his recent solo exhibitions, the following stand out: “L de Lello and La Fontaine from Gonçalo M. Tavares: A selection of Works” , Livraria Lello, Porto; “Border the long days of humanity with four branches”, Espaço Oficinas, Aljustrel; “Texture of the Silenced Voice”, Convent / Space Corpus Christi, Vila Nova de Gaia; “Force Majeure will ask; for the excess of Apathy”, multi-spatial exhibition at Convento do Carmo and Museu Municipal Carlos Reis, Torres Novas; “Mário Vitória 2007-2017”, Cerâmica Arganilense and Guilherme Filipe Exhibition Hall, Arganil; “Two birds in flight and other narratives about the last cookie in the world”, Galeria do Onze, Setúbal; “Urgent animism of the future“, Library Gallery, Sta Maria da Feira; “Where are you, Holy Queen, that Sebastião never arrives again”, Municipal Museum of Espinho, Espinho 2016; ”Lucubrations for the vulnerable parts of matter”, Museu Municipal Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Amarante 2016; “And surprisingly freedom”, Ap Arte Galeria de Arte Contemporânea, Porto 2016; “Unchaining the landscape in the pedagogy of borders”, University of Tás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real 2015; “Sowing mirrors in the dark of perspective – Alice in the city”, Machado de Castro National Museum, Pinho Dinis Gallery, Coimbra Municipal Museum – Chiado Building, CES, FEUC, FLUC, Paço das Escolas da Universidade de Coimbra, Café; Sta Cruz, TAGV, Coimbra; “Pattern of Coverups”, Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Guarda 2014; “Escaping from the shadow of the mountain”, Centro de Memória, Vila do Conde 2013; “Just like a Dionisíaco procession”, My Porto Cruz Space, Vila Nova de Gaia 2013; “The most resistant on the edge of madrugada”, Galeria do Casino do Estoril, Estoril 2013; “Journeys of a canary in the coal mine”, Fundação D. Luís I, Cascais 2012;
Mário Vitória is studying. represented in numerous official and private collections, national and international.