Fernão Cruz e Horácio Frutuoso

Fernão Cruz (Lisbon, 1995) lives and works in Lisbon. He holds a degree in painting from FBAUL and lived, studied, and worked in Barcelona (2016-17) at the Universitat de Barcelona: Facultat de Belles Arts. He was an artist-in-residence at BananaJam Art Space, Shenzhen, China (2017), and at the Centro de Estudos de Arte Contemporânea, Vila Nova da Barquinha (2018). Selected solo exhibitions: 2024, Outro, Rialto6, Lisbon; 2020, Flying Tombstones, ARCO Madrid, Madrid; 2020, Bring a Friend to the End, Sade Gallery, Los Angeles; 2019, The White Goodbye: O que entra pelos olhos e sai pelas mãos, Galeria Balcony, Lisbon. Selected group exhibitions: Berardo Collection Museum (Lisbon, 2019); Associação 289 (Faro, 2018); and Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon (Copenhagen, 2017).
Selected public and private collections: the State Contemporary Art Collection of Portugal, the António Cachola Collection, the Norlinda and José Lima Collection, the Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, the EDP Foundation, and the PLMJ Foundation.

Horácio Frutuoso, born in 1991, lives and works in Lisbon. He holds a degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto. His artistic practice is developed in the fields of painting and graphic drawing, exploring the codes and symbolisms of language, as well as historical and social representations. He has also frequently worked on editorial projects and has maintained a regular collaboration with Teatro Praga since 2016. His work has been shown in various exhibitions and curatorial projects, including at Serralves Museum, MAAT, Culturgest Porto, Galeria Municipal do Porto, CIAJG - Guimarães, Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar, and Appleton Square. His works are represented in several private and institutional collections, such as the EDP Foundation Art Collection, the PLMJ Foundation, the Serralves Museum, António Cachola Collection, and MACAM - Armando Martins Contemporary Art Museum.