CARLOS BARAHONA POSSOLLO

Degree in Painting, final mark of 18/20, from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Lisbon University. In 1995 he accepted an invitation to teach at the Faculty. He had read Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon from 1986 to 1989. He was officially commissioned to paint the Portrait of the Portuguese president Cavaco Silva, shown at the Presidents’ Gallery permanent collection in the Museum of the Presidency of the Republic, since 2016. Since 1995 he has been co-operating with the Portuguese Mail in the production of originals for the printing of stamps, notably their commemorative series of the 500^th anniversary of Vasco da Gama’s arrival in India (1996-98), and also with the Portuguese edition of the National Geographic Magazine (first nine issues). His works can be found in private collections in Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy - most notably, of many in this country, in that of Prince Jonathan Doria- Pamphilj - The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, U S A and Argentina. Also, in public collections such as the Vatican (IOR), The White House, the Bank of Portugal, the Portuguese Museum of Communications, The Setubal Museum, and the Union of Portuguese Speaking Capital Cities.

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INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

“Return to Iconography”, Bocage House, Setubal City Council, December 1992
“On The Egyptian Book of The Dead”, The Portuguese National Library, Lisbon, November 1993
“Return to The Sublime”, Corpo Santo House, Setubal city Council, March 1995
“Of Light and Darkness”, Belem Municipal Library, Lisbon, November 1996
“Painting”, at The Portuguese Embassy in Belgium, Brussels, November 1998
“Vanitas”, Corpo Santo House, Setubal City Council, December 1999
“Painting”, CTT (Portuguese Mail) Gallery, Lisbon, April 2000
“Painting”, IADE, Institute of Visual Arts, Design and Marketing, Lisbon, May 2003
“Egyptian Themes”, for the National Day of Egypt, at the residence of His Excellency the Arab Republic of Egypt in Portugal, July 2004
“Paintig”, Sala do Veado, National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, November 2006
“Painting”, Sala do Veado, National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, March 2009
“The Painter and Light”, Galleria PGD, Rome, May 2011.
“All You Can Eat”, Lisbon, November 2013.
“Return to Bomarzo”, Espaço Cultural das Mercês, Lisbon, March 2015.
“Theta Mode”, Espaço Cultural das Mercês, Lisbon, December 2015.
“Painting”, Espaço Cultural das Mercês, Lisbon, December 2017.
“Venice”, artist’s studio, Lisbon, December 2019
“Behind the Green Door”, public toilet by Marquês de Pombal, Lisbon, October 2020

SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

“The Spring Salon”, Casino Estoril, August 1988
Arte e Mania Gallery Opening Exhibition, Lisbon, May 1993
“100 Years of Painting in Setubal”, organised by the Setubal City Museum at the Galerie de l’Espace culturel Buzanval, Beauvais, December 1993
Exhibition in Honour of António Quadros, IADE, Lisbon, March 1994
Milan International Art Fair – MIART, Salone dei Giovani, Milan, May 1994
“Kunst und Design an der Universität Lissabon”, within the Portuguese Universities’ Culture Week for Luxembourg, European Culture City 1995, at the Europaische Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Trier, Germany, April 1995
“L’Art et le Design au Portugal”, Portuguese Universities’ Culture week, for Luxembourg European Culture City 1995, Foyer Européen, Luxembourg, May 1995
“5^th Union Fenosa Exhibition”, Estacion Maritima, A Corunha, Spain, July/August 1997
“International Salon of Contemporary Art”, Oeiras, June 2002
“Art London”, London International Art Fair, at Burton’s Court, Chelsea, with Thomas Corman Arts Gallery, June 2004
“Inês de Castro, 1355-2005”, Commemorations of the 650^th anniversary of the death of Inês de Castro, National Library, Lisbon, April 2005
“Re-Presenting the Nude”, Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2014