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University of Porto Famous Alumni

Jorge Pinheiro

Jorge Pinheiro 1931- Painter

Jorge Pinheiro was born in Coimbra on 7 October 1931.

After attending a commercial course, he enrolled in the Porto Fine Arts School, where he studied Painting, between 1955 and 1963, and completed the degree with full marks, just like the painters Ângelo de Sousa and Armando Alves and the sculptor José Rodrigues, with whom he founded the Grupo dos Quatro Vintes [The Four Twenties Group - a hint to their final course mark] in 1968.

He has participated in group exhibitions since 1954, and in solo exhibitions since 1958. In his first solo exhibition, he showed drawings, watercolours and gouaches at the Centro Transmontano do Porto.
He was one of the first ten founders of Árvore – Cooperativa de Actividades Artísticas, in Porto, and was a great friend of the poet Eugénio de Andrade.
He taught at ESBAP from 1963 to 1976, and in that year he began teaching at the Lisbon Academy of Fine Arts. He still meets his colleagues from the University of Porto at the Café S. Lázaro, for their after lunch meetings.

With a scholarship awarded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in 1966 he went on a study trip across Europe (Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Italy and Spain). Between 1969 and 1970, again on a scholarship from the Foundation, he studied Semiotics of Painting in Paris.
Between the 1960s and 1980s, his art separated from the school training style and grew into geometric abstract research, although he abandoned it in the work series "Reis" [Kings] (1973-1974) and "Mapas" [Maps] (1976). In 1977, he returned to pictorial figures in Drawing, and in 1980 in Painting, maintaining, however, an interest in geometry.

His unique award winning painting, characterized by Neo-classical and Barroque references, by a "cold" expressiveness and by the production of figure drawings, has been shown in exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, namely in Porto (Mini-Galeria, Módulo, Jornal de Notícias Gallery, Cooperativa Árvore, Nasoni, Degrau Arte, the former Gallery of Cadeia da Relação), in Lisbon (Quadrum, Gulbenkian, Centro Cultural de Belém, Palmira Suso, etc.), in Braga (Casa-Museu Nogueira da Silva), in Almada (Contemporary Art Centre), em Faro (Museu Municipal de Arte), in Figueira da Foz (Municipal Museum), in Guimarães (Gomes Alves Gallery) and in Milan (Morone Gallery).

In 2008, Jorge Pinheiro joined Armando Alves, José Rodrigues, Ângelo de Sousa and Jaime Isidoro at TEP (Experimental Theatre of Porto), in the exhibition entitled "4 + 1 Artistas no Teatro Experimental do Porto", held at the Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes and in the Diogo de Macedo Galleries, for the commemoration of the 40^th anniversary of the group "Os Quatro Vintes". Interestingly, this group exhibited their work for the first time at the Dominguez Alvarez Gallery, owned by Jaime Isidoro.

The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art dedicated the exhibition D'aprés Fibonacci and the world out there, based on a ideia by Pedro Cabrita Reis and with exhibition design by Eduardo Souto de Moura, displayed to the public between september 15, 2017 and july 7, January 2018.

In May 2017 he was honored at a conference at Cooperativa Árvore.

He collaborates with architects and landscape architects, and illustrates books of authors such as Mário Cláudio, Luísa Dacosta, Adília Alarcão, Manuel Ferreira Genet and Ilse Losa.
He lives and works in São Pedro do Estoril.
(Universidade Digital / Gestão de Informação, 2008)