João Motta Guedes, 1995
Based in Lisbon, Portugal. 





João Motta Guedes explores concepts of freedom, vulnerability, love and violence. His artistic productions reflect on life as a metaphor for a journey where different paths emerge, allowing the discovery and sharing of experiences about the meaning of feeling and being human. His artistic language appears in media such as installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, written words and poetry, and has predominantly a projectual and experimentalist nature. Based on a poetic discourse and narratives, it seeks to question the way forward through oniric expressions that elevate the observer to a utopian look at society and life, resulting in a comprehensive record of symbolic and metaphorical images that enhance poetry as the answer to the formulated questions.



Education


2013-2018 Law (BA), University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law (PT) 
2018-2018 Study exchange program, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (BR)
2018-2021 International and European Law (MA), NOVA University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law (PT) 
2019-2023 Painting (MFA), University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts (PT) 


Solo Exhibitions 

>> 2026, Galeria Francisco Fino (PT)
2024, "No feeling is final", Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "How To Live?", Galeria NAVE, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "You came to start the revolution", Galeria Zé dos bois, Lisbon (PT)


(Selected) Group Exhibitions

>> 2025, "Cycles of reality", Kunstquartier Bethanien, curated by Martin Brion, Berlin (DE)
2024, "First Step", Bigger Splash Gallery, curated by Pedro Valdez Cardoso, Lisbon (PT)
2024, "May you live in highly confusing times”, curated by Francisca Portugal and Victoria Alvarez, Arbag, Lisbon (PT)
2024, "Be my guest", Galeria NAVE, Lisbon (PT)
2024, "A Dream brought me here", (org.Galeria NAVE), Glogauair, Berlin (DE)
2023, "Prémio Arte Jovem 2023 - Millenium BCP", P31 Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "Gémeos falsos", Appleton square, curated by Diogo Ramalho and Mercedes Vidal-Abarca, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "O encantado só anda no horário da maré", curated by Tiago Alexandre, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "Olhos nos olhos", Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "The garden of forking paths", Buraco, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "Wanderlust", (org.Galeria NAVE), Galeria Artes - Mota Galiza, Porto, (PT)
2022, "(0/1) o zero e o um", (org.Galeria NAVE), Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (MUNHAC), Lisbon, (PT)
2022, “GABA”, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Lisbon (PT)
2021, “BABEL”, Palacete Burnay - Biblioteca de Alcântara, Lisbon (PT)
2020, “Como bebe uma flor”, Jardim das Amoreiras, Lisbon (PT)
2020, “Alunos da FBAUL”, Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon (PT)
2019, “Coexistência e Negociação”, Museu Condes de Castro Guimarães, Cascais (PT)


Awards

2023 PRÉMIO ARTE JOVEM FUNDAÇÃO MILLENIUM BCP, Lisbon (PT)
2020 PRÉMIO DE PINTURA ALUNOS DA FBAUL, Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon (PT)


Residencies

2024 "GLOGAU AIR", Berlin (DE)


Fairs

>>2025 Art Brussels (BE), with Galeria Francisco Fino 
>>2025 Arco Lisboa (PT), with Galeria Francisco Fino
2025, Arco Madrid (ES), with Galeria Francisco Fino
2024, Artissima (IT), with Galeria Francisco Fino
2023, Arco Lisboa (PT), with Galeria NAVE


Projects

2018 – Present, Researcher on the project: “COSMOS – COSMOPOLITISM: justice, democracy and citizenship without borders”. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PT)
2020 – 2022, Member of the Association “Pousio Arte e Cultura” (PT)


(Selected) Publications

2025, "No feeling is Final" exhibition catalog, Galerias Municipais-EGEAC, Lisbon (PT)
2024, "Be my guest" 5 year anniversary catalog of Galeria NAVE, Lisbon (PT).
2023, "Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) (c. 1985) by Paul Thek", Pilot Press, London (UK).
2022, "(0/1) o zero e o um", MUHNAC (Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência), Lisbon (PT).
2022, "FBAUL 2011-21, Prémios /Awards", Faculdade de Belas Artes (PT).
2020, "Alunos da Fbaul na Ermida - prémio de pintura", Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon (PT).
2020, "Invisible". In: Crise Pandémica: Quem sou eu neste novo mundo? Prémio de Literatura e Curta-Metragem Filo-Lisboa 2020", Lisbon (PT).

j.damottaguedes@gmail.com

@joaomottaguedes


Galeria Francisco Fino

galeria@franciscofino.com