Maria Pia Oliveira
Maria Pia Oliveira was born in Lisbon, in 1964. She lives and works in Lisbon. He studied Plastic Arts at Ar.Co, in Lisbon and at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He works in different media, sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, video and ceramics. He has been exhibiting regularly since the 1990s. Between 2006 and 2013 he participated in and organized the exhibitions at Colectivo Laboratório. You are represented in several public and private collections in Portugal and abroad.
Scholarships
Artistic Creation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon - 2001
Portuguese Center of Photography, CPF, Porto - 2001
Luso-American Foundation for Development, Lisbon - 1995
Individual exhibitions (selection)
Mundos Ardentes, Salon Belas Artes, Lisbon - 2017
Walking through the Skies, Giiefarte, Lisbon - 2015
Lighten the Dense Accumulated Clouds, Palacio Belmonte, Lisbon - 2011
Gravity, Ermida de Belém, Lisbon - 2010
Clothilde + Celeste, Casa da Cerca – CAC, Almada - 2009
(E)merge, Coimbra Water Museum, Coimbra - 2007
Observatory, Institute of Meteorology, Lisbon - 2005
Bum..., Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto - 2005
On White Air, Pavilhão Branco, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon - 2003
How I Became a Cloud, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto - 2001
UP.UP, Sala Poste-it, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto - 2000
Viagens, Galeria Diferença, Lisbon -1999
Collective Exhibitions (selection)
Metanóia, Galeria - Livraria Sá da Costa, Lisbon - 2017
Donations 2009-2014, National Tile Museum - 2015
Prometheus fecit, Soares dos Reis Museum, Porto - 2014
The Power of Doing, National Tile Museum, Lisbon - 2013
50 Years of Refining Emotions, Casa do Infante, Porto - 2013
Refinar Emotions, Casa do Infante, Porto - 2012
Secret Archives, Photographic Archive, Lisbon - 2011
Contemporary Ceramics, Manuel Castilho Antiguities, Lisbon - 2011
Laboratory #5 Welcome, Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts, Lisbon - 2010
Way Out Laboratory, Pavilion 28, Centro Hospitalar Júlio de Matos, Lisbon - 2009
I'll be right back, Sala Poste-it, Porto - 2009
Afectos Laboratory, Quinta das Lágrimas, Coimbra - 2008
Ocupation LAB 2, Atrium of the Ministry of Finance, Lisbon - 2008
Terra Laboratory, Tapada da Ajuda, Lisbon -2006
Women, XX – Visions in the Feminine, CAV, Coimbra -2006
Arco, Madrid, Galeria Pedro Oliveira - 2006
The Code and Margility, Fotonoviembre 05, Tenerife International Fair, Tenerife - 2005
ArteLisboa, Lisbon, Galeria Pedro Oliveira - 2005
Art/Salamanca/05, Salamanca - 2005
Dfoto, San Sebastian - 2005
Arco, Madrid, Galeria Pedro Oliveira - 2005
Collections
Lisbon Municipal Photographic Archive
Benetton Foundation, Treviso
Caja Ahorros El Monte, Seville
CPF, Portuguese Photography Center, Porto
CAC, Contemporary Art Center, Malaga
Galician Center for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela
Meetings in Coimbra, Coimbra
Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon
EDP Foundation
PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon
Inês de Castro Foundation
National Tile Museum, Lisbon
RAR, Porto
SPAL, Alcobaça
