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BIO
José Carlos Teixeira (b. 1977, Porto, Portugal) is an artist, recently fellow in residence for a year at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), in Film-Video-New Media. He completed an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), after having studied at the New York University (NYU), in New York City, and in Bilbao (Spain) at the University of Basque Country. He got a BFA (Licenciatura) from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Porto (Portugal). His interdisciplinary work is mostly focused on video, installation, and performance; it deals with notions of language, identity, limit, exile, and displacement, from a psychological to a more sociological or political point of view. Collaboration and participation are key elements in Teixeira’s work process and methodology. So far, he has been involved in several art projects, exhibitions, festivals, and screenings both in Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Scotland, Sweden, Russia, Lithuania, and Cyprus) and in the USA (New York, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Tucson, and Cincinnati), as well as in Singapore, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, and Cape Verde. Teixeira is represented by Galeria Presenca, in Portugal, and is present in some collections (such as Aberdeen Art Gallery Collection, Scotland, UK; EDP Foundation, and PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal), and has been the recipient of many awards and grants (the Fulbright / Carmona e Costa Foundation Grant, Gulbenkian Foundation / FLAD Grant, Samuel Booth Award, D’Arcy Hayman Award, and UCLA Fellowships, among others). He also studied music, experimental theater, and collaborated extensively with the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Porto, Portugal). Currently, he is assistant professor in Project and Video at ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design), in Portugal.
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