José Maçãs de Carvalho

José Maçãs de Carvalho (Anadia, 1960) lives and works in Anadia. He earned his PhD in Contemporary Art from the Colégio das Artes at the University of Coimbra in 2014, after studying Literature in the 1980s at the same university and later studying Arts Management in Macau in the 1990s, where he lived and worked. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and at the Colégio das Artes at the University of Coimbra, where he coordinates the master’s in curatorial studies. He has been awarded scholarships by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Oriente, Instituto Camões, Centro Português de Fotografia, and Instituto das Artes/DGARTES. In 2003, he curated and designed both the temporary and permanent exhibitions of the Museu do Vinho da Bairrada in Anadia; in 2005, he curated My Own Private Pictures at Plataforma Revólver as part of LisboaPhoto.
Between 2011 and 2017, he held seven solo exhibitions around the theme of his doctoral thesis (archive and memory) at CAV in Coimbra, Ateliers Concorde in Lisbon, Colégio das Artes in Coimbra, Galeria VPF in Lisbon, Arquivo Municipal de Fotografia in Lisbon, MNAC, and MAAT.