Valter Ventura

Valter Ventura (Lisbon, 1979) graduated in Art History from at Lisbon University. He finished in 2005 the Advanced Course in Photography at Ar.Co, with the Espírito Santo Bank scholarship.
Currently he teaches at the Photography Department of Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, also collaborating with Lisbon Fine Art School.
In 2008, participated in the 2nd Photography Course, Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Between 2012 and 2014 he was responsible for the photographic department at Carpe Diem - Art and Research.
Currently he's one of the resident artists at HANGAR - Art Research Center.
He co-founded HÉLICE - School of Photography, and PROPELLER magazine.
He's represented by KUBIKGALLERY (Oporto).

Exhibitions (selection):
Individual Exhibitions
2018_«Compêndio de Observações Fotográficas - Luz e Cegueira». Arquivo Fotográfico. Lisbon. Curator: Sofia Castro.
2017_«Observatório de Tangentes». Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado. Lisbon. Curator: Celso
Martins.
2016_«Toda a Linha Recta é um Arco de um Círculo Infinito». Geological Museum. Lisbon. Curator: Sérgio Fazenda
Rodrigues.
2014_«Compêndio do Nada». KUBIKGALLERY. Oporto.

Group Exhibitions
2017_"Force, Streght, Power". Kubikgallery + Baginski. Lisbon.
2017_“Residentes em Trânsito”, Eugénio de Almeida Forum. Évora. Curators: Mariana Gaspar and Filipa Oliveira.

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