João Carqueijeiro
João Edmundo Lemos Carqueijeiro (born 25 February 1954) is a Portuguese plastic artist.
João Carqueijeiro

João Ferreira Leal (Irokuzito) · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Name
- João Carqueijeiro
- Birth Name
- João Edmundo Lemos Carqueijeiro
- Born
- 25 February 1954
- Birthplace
- Lobito, Portuguese Angola
- Field
- plastic artist
- Nationality
- Portugal
- Occupation
- sculptor · ceramicist
- Fields
- plastic arts
- Languages
- Portuguese
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João Edmundo Lemos Carqueijeiro (born 25 February 1954) is a Portuguese plastic artist.
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João Carqueijeiro (born 1954) is a Portuguese ceramicist and sculptor. The ceramicist was born in Lobito. João Carqueijeiro is active in plastic arts. Languages used include Portuguese.
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Key facts
• Name — João Carqueijeiro • Birth Name — João Edmundo Lemos Carqueijeiro • Born — 25 February 1954 • Birthplace — Lobito, Portuguese Angola • Field — plastic artist
Biography
Biography
He was born in Lobito, Portuguese Angola on 25 February 1954. Until he was twenty years old, he lived in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique (now Maputo, Mozambique), and in 1974, after the Carnation Revolution, he went to Porto, Portugal. It was there that, in 1982, he concluded his High Graduation in Drawing (under the direction of the master Sá Nogueira) at the Cooperativa Árvore (ESAP). He also graduated and specialized in Wheel, Raku, and Glazes at La Bisbal Ceramic School, in Catalonia. He has taught Ceramic Arts since 1985.
Selected works
Selected works
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Collective exhibitions
Collective exhibitions
• Illustration — João Carqueijeiro in Atlier Maruo, 2001, Hondo, Japan • 1986 – 10th Meeting of European Ceramists "Périgueux" (France) • 1987 – Ceramic Art International Symposium at "Alcobaça" – Alcobaça (Portugal) • 1988 – Modern Art Centre of Calouste Gulbenkian's Foundation – Lisbon (Portugal) • 1988 – Contemporary Portuguese Ceramic Work "Leal Senado /Luís de Camões Museum" (Macao) • 1988 – Árvore Gallery – Porto (Portugal) • 1988 – "L’Europe Des Céramistes" (The Europe of Ceramic Artists) – Auxerre (France) • 1989 – National Library – Lisbon (Portugal) • 1989 – "Palácio dos Anjos" – Algés (Portugal) • 1989 – "Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica de Aveiro" (International Ceramic Art Biennial) – Aveiro (Portugal) • 1989 – "Cinq Jeunes Créateurs Portugais" (Five Young Portuguese Artists) – "Les Mureaux" (France) • 1990 – "3 Jovens Ceramistas" (3 Young Ceramists) - Youth Foundation – Porto (Portugal) • 1990 – International Meeting of Ceramic Arts – Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal) • 1990 – European Meeting of Arts, "Palais des Papes" – Avignon (France) • 1991 – Magellan Gallery – Paris (France) • 1991 – Árvore Gallery – Porto (Portugal) • 1992 – Petrogal / Ceramic Sculpture Meeting – Porto (Portugal) • 1994 – Arménio Losa Gallery – São Mamede Infesta (Portugal) • 1995 – "Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica de Aveiro" (International Ceramic Art Biennial) - Aveiro (Portugal) • 1995 – Eng. António de Almeida Foundation – Porto (Portugal) • 1997 – "10 Artistas do Porto em Fafe" (10 Porto Artists at Fafe) Fafe (Portugal) • 1997 – Eng. António de Almeida Foundation (U.C.) – Porto (Portugal) • 1997 – "Silêncios/Stille" Symposium at Feital – Trancoso (Portugal) • 1997 – Arménio Losa Gallery – São Mamede Infesta (Portugal) • 1997 - Ao Quadrado Gallery – Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal) • 1998 - Ceramic Art Symposium – Vila Nova de Cerveira – Portugal • 1998 – Direction of a Ceramic Mural – Artists European Meeting - Paredes de Coura (Portugal) • 1998 - "Silêncios/Stille" – Centro Cultural de Aveiro (Cultural Center of Aveiro) – Aveiro (Portugal) • 1998 – Direction and production of the Ceramic Mural of the NORTE COOP Building – São Mamede Infesta (Portugal) • 1998 – "Silêncios/Stille", Ausstellung / Preetz (Germany) • 1999 – Direction of a Raku Workshop and exhibition "Atmosfera" (Atmosphere) – Epicentro Gallery – Porto (Portugal) • 1999 – "Encontro de Cerâmica Figurativa – Figurado" (Human Figure Ceramic Meeting) – Pottery Museum of Barcelos - Barcelos (Portugal) • 2000 – Direction and production of a Meeting of Shaped Plates – Porto (Portugal) • 2000 – Gesto Coop. Gallery – Porto (Portugal) • 2000 - A. M. I. Gallery – Porto (Portugal) • 2001 – Participation on the Amakusa Ceramics Festival, Hondo (Japan), as guest artist, representing Portugal – Carrying through a workshop about Portuguese Traditional Tiling – Exposition of ceramic sculptures in the City Hall of Amakusa. • 2003 – Coordination and post-Exhibition of the workshop in ceramics on the XIIBienal03 (Biennial) of Vila Nova de Cerveira • 2003 – Presentation of two video-installations "EntreBarreiras" e "XIIBienal03 a preto e branco – Os Gestos_Os Espaços_As Mãos" (co-directing and co-editing with Cristina Leal) • 2003 – Exhibition in the A.M.I. Gallery – Porto (Portugal) • 2005 – Exhibition in the Bobogi Gallery – Aveiro (Portugal) • 2006 - Exhibition in the AvizArte Gallery - Porto (Portugal)
Individual exhibitions
Individual exhibitions
• 1986 – "D" Gallery – Gondomar (Portugal) • 1990 – Labirintho Gallery – Porto (Portugal) • 1993 – Magellan Gallery – Paris (France) • 1996 – Labirintho Gallery – Porto - (Portugal) • 1996 – Aveiro City Hall Gallery – Aveiro (Portugal) • 2000 – Epicentro Gallery - Porto (Portugal) • 2001 - Pottery Museum of Barcelos - Barcelos (Portugal)
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1954
João Carqueijeiro was born in 1954 at Lobito.
Sculpture (Árvores - tree series)
Sculpture (Árvores - tree series)
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Sculpture (colored clay)
Sculpture (colored clay)
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Plates
Plates
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Collections
• Alcobaça City Hall Museum – Alcobaça (Portugal) • Museu do Azulejo (Tile Museum) – Lisbon (Portugal) • Luís de Camões Museum – (Macao) • I. E. F. P. – Porto and Valença Centers (Portugal) • Pottery Museum of Barcelos – Barcelos (Portugal) • Amakusa City Hall – Hondo (Japan) • Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo – Tokyo (Japan) • Gallery of the North Delegation of AMI – Assistência Médica Internacional – Porto (Portugal) • Museum of the Biennial of Cerveira – Vila Nova de Cerveira (Porto)

The portuguese plastic artist João Carqueijeiro in Alcobaça (Portugal)
João Ferreira Leal (Irokuzito)

One of the many works of art of the plastic artist João Carqueijeiro
João Ferreira Leal (Irokuzito)
Awards
• 1989 – 1st Prize in the II Art Exhibition-Small Size – Cooperativa Árvore – Porto (Portugal) • 1989 – Honour Distinguished in the "Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica de Aveiro" (International Ceramic Art Biennial) – Aveiro (Portugal) • 1991 – 1st Prize in Creative Ceramic Art – I.E.F.P. (Portugal)
Literature
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Notes from the source article
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Leal Senado de Macau e Museu Luís de Camões, A Cerâmica Portuguesa Comtemporânea, Gráfica de Macau
- Center Culturel de L'Yonne. France, L'Europe des Ceramistes, 1989, SEMA. ISSN 0152-2418
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