Professional biography:

Obtained an MFA (1998) and PhD (2006) from the University of Ulster and was a Fellow at the British school in Rome (2005-2006). I have teaching experience in a number of academic departments in Ireland and the UK. Taught at University Campus Suffolk 2011 and the University of Ulster 2003-2005 and had experience of teaching studio practice and theory. I have been Course Leader of Fine Art at BHSAD since 2012.

Research / professional practice interests:

My practice led research has been concerned with the relationship between painting/drawing and lens-based representations. Particularly the indexical relationship between an image and the depicted subject in documentary and gestural drawing. This research has involved an engagement with drawing, video and photography.

Qualifications:

2003–2006 PhD University of Ulster
1995–1998 MFA University of Ulster
1992–Fine Art, De Montfort University

Exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as:

2011 La Caixa Foundation, Madrid
2009 Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2008 The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
2007 The Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia
2005 The Venice Biennale

Professional biography:

José Carlos Veiga do Nascimento (Portugal), is currently the programme leader of the BA (Hons) Photography course at the BHSAD, where he has been working since 2014. Studied at the Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra; Goldsmiths College - University of London, and Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra.

From 1995 to 2014 taught at ARCA, Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra, and at EAC, Escola Profissional de Artes de Coimbra, among others, having been responsible for several modules and courses. He has been exhibiting regularly since the mid-1990s, collaborated with the Encontros de Fotografia de Coimbra, and from 2007 until 2017 was member of the artists' association Itenerários Contemporâneos Zero.

Research / professional practice interests:

Photography, on the borderline between art and documentary.
Appropriation and re-signification in contemporary photography.
“Playing against the apparatus”.

Academic qualifications:

Concluded the curricular part of the PhD Course in Contemporary Art at Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra, PT- 2014
Master in Image and Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK (W/ Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation fellowship). - 2004
"Licenciatura" Degree (5 years), Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra, PT - 1995

Professional qualifications / accreditation:

Education Sciences Course, Universidade Aberta, Coimbra PT - 2004

EXHIBITIONS (selection):

Atores Urbanos #5; Sala da Cidade, Coimbra, 2017
Timeline 2; Festival Internacional de Video Arte, Museu Mineiro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2016
FONLAD no Museu da Água , Coimbra, PT 2016
TRANS[Acto] Transdisciplinary & Anti-Artistic Global Project, Boa Vista, Brazil 2015
Motel Coimbra, XVII Bienal Internacional de Cerveira, PT 2015
Teatro Anatómico, Palacete Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca, Coimbra, PT 2015
Best of FONLAD, Museu da Vila Velha, Vila Real, PT 2014
Motel Coimbra, Colégio das Artes| Universidade de Coimbra, PT 2014.
O Corpo Através da Imagem, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, PT 2013.
OPENEND, Espaço Artes, Multimédia e Perfomance, Coimbra, PT 2013.
New Cross (work in progress), with Achilleas Tillegrafos, Espaço Artes, Multimédia e Perfomance, Coimbra, PT 2013.
Déjà Vu, Espaço Artes, Multimédia e Perfomance, Coimbra, PT 2013.
Dis-moi dix mots, 10 Alliances Francaises, in Portugal, PT 2013.
Cimento, Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Velha, Coimbra, PT 2013.
Paisagens Improváveis, Teatro Municipal da Guarda Gallery – Guarda, PT 2012.
Paisagens Improváveis, Museo de León, León – Spain, 2012.
Paisagens Improváveis, Casa de las Conchas, Salamanca – Spain, 2012.
Paisagens Improváveis, Iglesia del Monasterio Ntra. Sra. de Prado, Valladolid – Spain, 2012.
Digital Landscapes, Espaço de Artes, Multimédia e Performance, Coimbra, PT 2012.
PassWord, Livraria Portuguesa, Macau, 2012.
Magmart video under vulcano, Contemporary Art Museum, Nápoles – Italy, 2012.
Oslo Screen Festival, Filmens Hus/Cinemateket, Oslo – Norway, 2012.
Take S, Centro de Artes de Sines, Sines, PT 2012.
Athens Video*/Art Festival, Atenas, Greece, 2011.
Digital Landscapes, Fonlad 05_TMG Gallery, Guarda, PT 2009.
Actores Urbanos #3, Centro de Artes e Espectáculos, Sever do Vouga, PT 2009.
Actores Urbanos #3, Residência Senhorial dos Condes de Castelo Melhor, Santiago da Guarda, PT 2009.
Actores Urbanos #3, Novo Ciclo Gallery – ACERT, Tondela. PT
Lab.65 Colectivo Fotográfico, FNAC Gallery, Norteshoping, Matosinhos, PT 2009.
Urban (R)Evolutions, Videoart Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece, 2009.
Actores Urbanos #3, TMG Gallery, Guarda, PT 2008.
Actores Urbanos #2, European Commission, Luxemburg, 2007.
Diálogos Improváveis, Museu da Imagem de Braga, PT 2007 (solo).
Actores Urbanos #1, Sete Gallery, Coimbra, PT 2007.
Encontros da Imagem, Mosteiro de Tibães – Braga, PT 2006.
Descubrimentos | Photoespaña, Matadero, Madrid, Spain, 2006.
Cross breed – Menier Gallery, Londres – UK, 2004.
Nas Entranhas do Infinito – Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, PT 2002 (solo).
Língua franca, Aarhus, Denmark, 2002.
Mujer española – (Bolsa Kelogg’s) Madrid – Spain, 2002 (solo).
Photographie Portugaise | fotografia Marroquina – Musée Batha, Fés, Morocco, 2002.
Photographie Portugaise | fotografia Marroquina – C. C. P. Instituto Camões – Rabat, Morocco, 2002.
Critério Visível – Portuguese Centre of Photography (Cadeia da relação), Porto, PT 2002.
Índia – Encontros da Imagem de Braga, PT 2001 (solo).
Cárceres de Luz – Centro Cultural Raiano, Idanha-a-Nova, PT 1999.
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris – France, 1999.
III Bienal de Arte da Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Real, PT 1999.
Istanbul – Encontros de Fotografia de Coimbra, PT 1998 (solo).
V Bienal de fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira, PT 1997.
O esplendor do lãt – Portuguese Centre of Photography (Casa das Artes), Porto, PT 1996 (solo).
Hofmann Awards of Photography – (itinerant) Spain, 1997.
VIII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Vila nova de Cerveira, PT 1995.

GRANTS:

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PT 2003
Beca Kellogg's / Descubrimientos | Photoespaña, Madrid, ES 2002
CPF/ Ministry of Culture of Portugal, PT 2000 and 2001
Oriente Fondation, Lisboa, PT 2001

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS:

National collection of Photography, Portuguese Centre of Photography / Ministry of Culture.
Encontros da Imagem de Braga.
Encontros de Fotografia de Coimbra.

Professional biography:

Graduated in 1991 from Newcastle Polytechnic with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art.

Worked at Tate Gallery (Liverpool) from 1993-1997.

Lived and worked in Japan and Canada from 1997-2003 holding various teaching posts and regularly exhibited. Returned to the UK (Newcastle) to complete a Masters Degree in Fine Art Practices in 2003-2004.

In 2005 awarded doctoral funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Doctorate completed in 2010.

From 2008-2012 held a variety of teaching posts and roles at Northumbria University and Tyne College.

In 2012 relocated as Senior Fine Art Lecturer to The British Higher School (Moscow).

Research / professional practice interests:

Artist and practice-led researcher whose earlier studio practice centred on general ideas and notions of classification and resulting taxonomies.

Studio Practice was developed on an MA Practice programme through an engagement with criminal forensics procedures, methods and approaches.

MA Activity lead to a Doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Power of Naming’; Co-option in Fine Art Practice a practice-led research project and investigatory journey exploring ‘terrains of interest’ that have opened up, stimulated, and informed, studio and exhibition practices. Plotting a shift from the illustrative via natural history classification systems, the co-option of a forensic glossary to the poetics of creative practice.

Academic qualifications:

2005-2010 Practice-led PhD, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
2003 -2004 MA Fine Art Practice, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
1988-1991 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Professional qualifications / accreditation:

1993 City+Guilds (7307) Art Education

Exhibitions:

2018 Bienal De Cerveira, Portugal.
2017 Such a Small Love, Art Laboratory, Moscow, Russia.
2016 BoConcept, Ukrainian Blvd, Moscow, Russia.
2015 Pushpin, Moscow Contemporary Arts Centre, Moscow, Russia.
2015 Doctoring the Evidence #1: Ten Cities, Square Yard Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
2015 The 2nd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China.
2012 The Devil Makes Work For Idle Hands, Toomey Turell Fine Art, San Francisco, USA.

Residency:

2015 (Summer) Swatch Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China.
2014 (Summer) The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy.
2013 (Summer) Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarborg, Iceland.

Publications:

Diversified Colours, Leading Trends, The 2nd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China.
Essay: CONVOLUTION Number 3 (USA).
Blunt Force Trauma, Portfolio: Emerging research in Visual Culture.
He is dead and he is going to die: Introductory essay for Adam Hogarth and Sebastian Trend. UK touring exhibition.