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Julião Sarmento

(Portuguese, 1948–2021)

untitled (#16) by julião sarmento

Julião Sarmento

UNTITLED (#16), 1981

Est. 25,000–35,000 EUR

ver, sentir e calar (#752) by julião sarmento

Julião Sarmento

VER, SENTIR E CALAR (#752), 1989

Est. 30,000–50,000 EUR

Biography

Timeline

1948
Born in Lisbon, Portugal
2009
Winner of Coimbra University of Premium
2021
Died

Exhibitions

2018
Julião Sarmento selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Julião Sarmento Reel Time, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento. Without, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento Leopard in a Cage, Centro Internacional das artes José de Guimarães, Guimarães (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento LA Prints, Mixografia, Los Angeles, California (solo exhibition)
TIMELINE, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo exhibition)
ANOZERO’17 Coimbra Contemporary Art Biennial Healing and Repairing, Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Nova, Coimbra, Portugal
Coleção de Serralves / Serralves Collection 1960-1980, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Coleção Moderna África e Outros Territórios, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian – Modern Collection
EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Sean Kelly, New York
Making Space, Mixogradia Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2017
Julião Sarmento selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Desert X – Desert Biennial, Coachella Valley, Palm Springs, California (solo exhibition)
A Colecção (Reloaded) Norlinda e José Lima, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Anozero’17 Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a Nova, Coimbra, Portugal
Art at the Turn of the Century: A Selection of Works Acquired in the Past Two Decades, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
Arte em São Bento - Serralves 2017, Official Residence of the Prime Minister, Lisboa, Portugal
Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde Movments in 20th and 21st Century Portugese Art, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea- Museu do Chiado, Portugal
Black Box Museu Imaginário, Museu do Caramulo, Caramulo, Portugal
Conversation Piece Opere della Collezione “la Caixa” d’Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Corpo, Abstracção e Linguagem na Arte Portuguesa: Obras em Depósito da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura na Coleção de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Nadir Afonso, Chaves, Portugal
Dépenses: Trilogie La Traversée des Inquiétudes, LaBanque, Bethune, France
Estudos de luz Indícios, reflexos e sombras na Coleção de Serralves, Centro da Cultura Contemporânea de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
La Caixa, La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Limiar da Vida, Núcleo de Arte da Oliva da Creative Factory, S. João da Madeira, Portugal
Portugal em Flagrante / Operação 2, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal
Primeira Vista Álbuns de Artista na Coleção da Fundação de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Serralves Collection, Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
Simultânea Obras da Colecção da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
The Accidental Photographer: serial imagery and experimentation in Portugal 1968- 1980, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
The Carpet Kartell, Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York
Them or Us Um projecto de ficção científica social e política, Galeria Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal
The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely, MuZEE, Oostende, Belgium
Question Centre presents Julião Sarmento and Alexander Calder, Institutos de Arquitetos do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Uma Coleção = Um Museu 2007-2017, MACE Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas, Portugal
Wall to Wall Carpets by Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, New York
2016
Julião Sarmento selected Exhibitions in 2016:
As Good As It Gets, Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia (solo exhibition)
As Good As It Gets, Muzej Suvremene Ummjetnosti Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia (solo exhibition)
No fio da respiração, Galeria Municipal Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal (solo exhibition)
The Real Thing / La chose, même, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkien, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Alientos from the Teixeria de Freitas Collection, Collectorspace, Istanbul, Turkey
Arte portuguesa recent na Coleção de Serralves, Serralves, Porto, Portugal
As Good As It Gets, Galerije umjetnina, Galije Kula & Palaco Milesi, Split, Croatia
As Good As It Gets, MSU Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia
Conversation: Recent Portuguese Art in the Serralves Collection, Serralves Musem of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Da Fuga e do Encontro: Inversões do Olhar, Espaço Novo Banco, Lisbon, Portugal
Dirt, Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon, Portugal
No fio da repsiração, Galeria Municipal de Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal
Obras das Coleções Fundación Coca-Cola e de Fotografia Contemporânea do NOVO BANCO, Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal em Flagrante – Operaçao 1, Fundacção Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal, Portugueses, Museu Afrobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Projects, CIAJG Centro International das artes José de Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal
Shots of Architecture, Spazio Ridotto, Venice, Italy
Travessa da Ermida a Sui, Centro des Artes, Sines, Portugal
Trilogie La Traversée des Inquiétudes, Labanque, Béthune, France
uma homenagem a Paulo Cunha e Silva, por extensor, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Vanguardas e Neo-Vanguardas na Arte Portuguesa Séculos XX e XXI, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
VOID* Júlio Pomar & Julião Sarmento, Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon, Portugal
Wall to Wall Carpets, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2015
Julião Sarmento selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Circuito de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Easy, Fractals & Star Map, Galpao Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo (solo exhibition)
Easy Pairings Fractals Stars, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium (solo exhibition)
Galeria Fonseca Macedo, Acores, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Fortes Vilaça (Galpão), São Paulo, Brazil (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Ogiva, Óbidos, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento: Guest or Host?, CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (solo exhibition)
Laboratório de Curadoria #2, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye (part 2), Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo exhibition)
By the Book, Sean Kelly, New York
Variations – Le Corbusier regarder, observer, voir, imaginer, inventer, créer, Château de Caros, Region Nicoise, France
PICTURES AND CREAM – The confidential report of the life and opinions of Tristram Shandy & friends, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2014
Julião Sarmento selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Fonseca Macedo, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento: Terra Incognita, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento, DAD, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento: Guest or Host?, Fundación Luis Seoane, A Coruña, Spain (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento: Lo Sguardo Selettivo, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy (solo exhibition)
Julião Sarmento, MAMAC Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (solo exhibition)
Notre Dame, Ermida de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, curated by João Silvério, Lisbon, Portugal (solo exhibition)
A Visão Incorporada, Museu Nacional De Arte Contemporânea Do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Animalia e Natureza na Coleção do CAM, CAM – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, curated by Isabel Carlos, Patrícia Rosas, Lisbon, Portugal
Global Books L’aventure singulière de Gervais Jassaud, Bibliothèque Louis Nucéra, curated by Gervais Jassaud, Nice, France
Habitar a Colecção, Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon, Portugal
Per/Form – How to do things with[out] words, CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Projecto Sociedade: Um cadáver esquisito para o século XXI, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, curated by Nuno Faria, Lisbon, Portugal
Within / Beyond Borders, Banco de Portugal, Igreja de S. Julião, Lisbon, Portugal
2013
Index, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (MACE), Elvas, Portugal (solo)
Fado (with Carminho), The Ermida Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Portugal
75 Photographs, 35 Women, 42 Years, Pilar Corrias, London, UK (solo)
Julião Sarmento: Artists and Writers / House and Home (Part 2), CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio - USA (solo)
2012
Julião Sarmento: White Nights, A Retrospective curated by João Fernandes and James Lingwood, Museu Serralves, Porto – PT (solo)

Public Collections

Malmo Museum, Malmo, Sweden
The Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Saison Foundation/The Museum of Modern Art, Takanawa, Japan
Stadtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany
Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel