João Edmundo Lemos Carqueijeiro is a

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plastic artist. He was born in

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on 25 February 1954. Until he was twenty years old he lived in Lourenço Marques (now

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and in 1974, after the Carnation revolution, he went to

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, Portugal. It was there that, in 1982, he concluded his High Graduation in Drawing (under the direction of the master Sá Nogueira) at the Cooperativa Árvore ( ESAP). He also graduated and specialized in Wheel, Raku and Glazes at La Bisbal Ceramic School, in

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. He has taught Ceramic Arts since 1985.

Selected works

A small selection of some of works of ''João Carqueijeiro'' divided by categories.

Sculpture (''Árvores'' - ''tree'' series)

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Sculpture (colored clay)

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Plates

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Collective exhibitions

* 1986 – 10th Meeting of European Ceramists "Périgueux" (France) * 1987 – Ceramic Art International Symposium at "Alcobaça" – Alcobaça (Portugal) * 1988 – Modern Art Centre of Calouste Gulbenkian's Foundation – Lisbon (Portugal) * 1988 – Contemporary Portuguese Ceramic Work "Leal Senado /Luís de Camões Museum" (Macao) * 1988 – Árvore Gallery –

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(Portugal) * 1988 – "L’Europe Des Céramistes" (The Europe of Ceramic Artists) –

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(France) * 1989 – National Library – Lisbon (Portugal) * 1989 – "Palácio dos Anjos" – Algés (Portugal) * 1989 – "Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica de Aveiro" (International Ceramic Art Biennial) – Aveiro (Portugal) * 1989 – "Cinq Jeunes Créateurs Portugais" (Five Young Portuguese Artists) – "Les Mureaux" (France) * 1990 – "3 Jovens Ceramistas" (3 Young Ceramists) - Youth Foundation –

(Portugal) * 1990 – International Meeting of Ceramic Arts –

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(Portugal) * 1990 – European Meeting of Arts, "Palais des Papes" – Avignon (France) * 1991 – Magellan Gallery – Paris (France) * 1991 – Árvore Gallery –

(Portugal) * 1992 –

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/ Ceramic Sculpture Meeting –

(Portugal) * 1994 – Arménio Losa Gallery – São Mamede Infesta (Portugal) * 1995 – "Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica de Aveiro" (International Ceramic Art Biennial) - Aveiro (Portugal) * 1995 – Eng. António de Almeida Foundation –

(Portugal) * 1997 – "10 Artistas do Porto em Fafe" (10 Oporto Artists at Fafe)

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(Portugal) * 1997 – Eng. António de Almeida Foundation (U.C.) –

(Portugal) * 1997 – "Silêncios/Stille" Symposium at Feital – Trancoso (Portugal) * 1997 – Arménio Losa Gallery – São Mamede Infesta (Portugal) * 1997 - Ao Quadrado Gallery –

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(Portugal) * 1998 - "Silêncios/Stille" – Centro Cultural de Aveiro ( Cultural Center of Aveiro) – Aveiro (Portugal) * 1998 – Direction and production of the Ceramic Mural of the NORTE COOP Building – São Mamede Infesta (Portugal) * 1998 – "Silêncios/Stille", Ausstellung / Preetz (Germany) * 1999 – Direction of a Raku Workshop and exhibition "Atmosfera" (Atmosphere) – Epicentro Gallery –

(Portugal) * 1999 – "Encontro de Cerâmica Figurativa – Figurado" (Human Figure Ceramic Meeting ) – Pottery Museum of Barcelos - Barcelos (Portugal) * 2000 – Direction and production of a Meeting of Shaped Plates -

(Portugal) * 2000 – Gesto Coop. Gallery –

(Portugal) * 2000 - A. M. I. Gallery –

(Portugal) * 2001 – Participation on the ''Amakusa Ceramics Festival'',

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(Japan), as guest artist, representing Portugal – Carrying through a workshop about Portuguese Traditional Tiling – Exposition of ceramic sculptures in the City Hall of Amakusa. * 2003 – Coordination and post-Exhibition of the workshop in ceramics on the XIIBienal03 (Biennial) of

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(Portugal) * 2005 – Exhibition in the Bobogi Gallery – Aveiro (Portugal) * 2006 - Exhibition in the AvizArte Gallery -

(Portugal)

Individual exhibitions

* 1986 – "D" Gallery – Gondomar (Portugal) * 1990 – Labirintho Gallery –

(Portugal) * 1993 – Magellan Gallery – Paris (France) * 1996 – Labirintho Gallery –

- (Portugal) * 1996 – Aveiro City Hall Gallery – Aveiro (Portugal) * 2000 – Epicentro Gallery -

(Portugal) * 2001 - Pottery Museum of Barcelos - Barcelos (Portugal)

Awards

* 1989 – 1st Prize in the II Art Exhibition-Small Size – Cooperativa Árvore –

(Portugal) * 1989 – Honour Distinguished in the "Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica de Aveiro" (International Ceramic Art Biennial) – Aveiro (Portugal) * 1991 – 1st Prize in Creative Ceramic Art – I.E.F.P. (Portugal)

Collections

* Alcobaça City Hall Museum – Alcobaça (Portugal) * ''Museu do Azulejo'' (Tile Museum) – Lisbon (Portugal) * Luís de Camões Museum – (Macao) * I. E. F. P. –

and Valença Centers (Portugal) * Pottery Museum of Barcelos – Barcelos (Portugal) * Amakusa City Hall –

(Japan) * Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo – Tokyo (Japan) * Gallery of the North Delegation of AMI – ''Assistência Médica Internacional'' –

(Portugal) * Museum of the Biennial of Cerveira –

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References

#Leal Senado de Macau e Museu Luís de Camões, A Cerâmica Portuguesa Comtemporânea, Gráfica de Macau #Center Culturel de L'Yonne. France, L'Europe des Ceramistes, 1989, SEMA. ISSN 0152-2418

External links

Web sites dedicated to João Carqueijeiro:
João Carqueijeiro
– official website. {{DEFAULTSORT:Carqueijeiro, Joao Portuguese artists Portuguese sculptors Male sculptors Portuguese ceramists Portuguese potters 1954 births Living people