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University of Porto Famous Alumni

Carlos Carreiro

Carlos Carreiro 1946- Painter and university lecturer

Carlos de Amaral Carreiro was born in Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel, Azores, in 1946. After attending the Law Course at the Faculty of Law, in Lisbon, for two years, in 1965 he enrolled in the Painting Course at the School of Fine Arts in Porto, which he concluded in 1972.

His first exhibition took place when he was still a student, in 1967.
In 1976, he formed the "Grupo Puzzle", with João Dixo, Albuquerque Mendes, Graça Morais, Pedro Rocha, Jaime Silva, Dário Alves, Fernando Pinto Coelho and Armando de Azevedo, which was disclosed to the public at a dinner/intervention entitled "Expectativa de nascimento de um puzzle fisiológico com pretensões a grupo" (In the hope that a physiological puzzle, aiming to be a group, is born), at the Alvarez II Gallery. It was with this group that he participated in the XXVII Young Painters Salon, in Paris, at the Portuguese Art Exhibition, in Brazil and the Portuguese Art Exhibition, in Sweden.

In 1977, he started his teaching activity at ESBAP, where he sat his Aggregation exams, in 1982, and is today an Associate Professor.
The following year, he obtained a bursary from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to conduct a survey on "O kitsch e o mau gosto em Portugal" (Kitsch and bad taste in Portugal).

At the beginning of the 90s, his painting were shown in an itinerant exhibition – Vinte e cinco anos de pintura, 1967/92 (Twenty five years of painting), organized by the General Directorate for Cultural Affairs of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, which travelled the cities of Angra do Heroísmo, Ponta Delgada, Horta, Lisboa, Porto, Amarante, Coimbra, Gondomar, São João da Madeira and Aveiro. In 2000, the Casa Municipal de Cultura of Cantanhede held an exhibition with an anthology of his works.

Throughout his professional life, Carlos Carreiro participated in more than 300 collective exhibitions, in both Portugal and abroad: "Os Biombos dos Portugueses" (Decorative Portuguese Screens), in Tokyo, Argentina, S. Paulo, Lisbon, Porto, Toronto and Rabat; "O Rosto do Infante" (The Face of the Prince), in Tomar and Viseu; "Imagens da Família na Arte Portuguesa, 1801/1992" (Images of the Family in Portuguese Art), in Caldas da Rainha and Évora; "El Duero que nos une" (Douro: The river that unites us), for the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Treaty of Tordesillas, with Portuguese and Spanish Artists - in Palencia, Zamora and Salamanca. He also exhibited his work in dozens of individual exhibitions at several Galleries: Zen, Jornal de Notícias, Roma and Pavia, Praça, Diagonal, Degrau Arte, Espaço Branco, Sala Maior, Artesis, Arco 8, Almadarte, Mário Sequeira, Marconi, Lídia Cruz and Presença, at Soctip, at the Bertrand Bookstore, at the National Society for Fine Arts and Cooperativa Árvore.

Carlos Carreiro has received several awards and distinctions. In 1996, he obtained an honourable mention in the competition organized by Barclays Bank, in Lisbon ("Montras Barclays" - Barclays Showcases); the National Painting Award at the "II Bienal de Arte AIP'96" (Art Biennial) organized by Cooperativa Árvore, in Porto; in 1997, he won the Art-Car Award from BMW/Baviera and, on 10 June 2006 he was awarded the Merit Order by the Portuguese Presidency.

In addition to painting, he edited serigraphies, designed graphic images for the Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – ACARTE 88, and for the record launched by the Portuguese rock band GNR, "A valsa dos Detectives" (The Waltz of the Detectives) (1989). Together with Carlos Barreira, he was the commissioner for the ESPAP/FBAUP Exhibition "215 Anos de Belas Artes no Porto" (215 years of Fine Arts in Porto), open to the public at the Transport and Communications Museum at the Customs House in Porto, between July and August 1995.

The unique narrative work by Carlos Carneiro, whom Fernando Pernes called "the Hieronymus Bosh in consumption society", can be found in several collections in many museums, private collections and institutions, for instance the Regional Assembly of Azores, in Horta, for which he painted a panel and drew the project for the tapestries found in the Plenary Room.
(Universidade Digital / Gestão de Informação, 2009)