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ArchiveBorn 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento has exhibited extensively since his first show in 1969 and is known as one of Portugal’s most important artists. Defying categorization, he uses film, painting, sculpture, drawing and installation as tools to allow the spectator to imagine the connections that exist between text, the image, and the drawings.
Sarmento has shown in numerous group shows around the world including Documenta VII (1982) and VIII (1987), the Venice Biennales of 1980 and 2001, and in 1997, he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennales. His work is included in public collections worldwide, including The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, New York; MoMA, New York; the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
 Julião Sarmento, Woman, House, Camomile and White, 150 x 114 cm, water based enamel, collage and graphite on paper, 2008/2009 |
