Miguel Soares

Miguel Soares (Braga, 1970) lives and works in Lisbon as an artist and university lecturer.
He began exhibiting his photographic work in the early 1990s, between studying photography at Ar.Co and studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, where in his third year he opted for equipment design as a way of getting to know a wide range of materials and technologies.
In the middle of the decade, photography merged with objects, multimedia installations and the first works in video and animation.
In the late 1990s, without ever leaving photography, he began to work intensively and autodidactically on complex 3D animations; in the early 2000s, 3D animation and audio recordings and the resulting music videos formed the main body of his work.
In 2003/2004 he was awarded a FLAD/Gulbenkian Foundation/Ministry of Culture grant for an artistic residency at Location One, New York.
His work in photography was recognised with the BES Photo Award in 2007, and his 3D animation work was shown in a retrospective in 2008 that occupied the entire Culturgest headquarters in Lisbon, as a sign of his artistic maturity achieved through a new medium in which he was unique in Portuguese art.
With more than 20 solo exhibitions in 4 countries and more than 150 group exhibitions in 14 countries, the artist has also been teaching multimedia plastic arts since 2006, as a guest lecturer at the Universities of Algarve, Coimbra and Évora.