CV José Carlos Teixeira

(b. 1977, Porto, Portugal | lives in Lisbon, and works in Europe and USA )

NOTE: *upcoming

EDUCATION

2008-09 Resident fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Video/Film/New Media, Stuttgart (Germany)

2006 MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)

2003 Fall Semester in MFA Studio Art, New York University, New York City, NY (USA)

Research at the School of Fine Arts – University of Basque Country (Public Art), and BilbaoArte (New Media), Bilbao (Spain)

2002 Residency Land, Sea and Skye - AICART & ESW Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Isle of Skye (Scotland, UK)

2001 BFA, Visual Arts, Faculdade de Belas Artes (FBAUP) / School of Fine Arts – University of Porto (Portugal)

2000 Erasmus program, School of Fine Arts – University of Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain)

1995 IAPDA Introduction to the Visual Arts, Design & Architecture Program, Soares dos Reis High School for the Arts, Porto (Portugal)

RESIDENCIES

2008-09 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Video/Film/New Media, Stuttgart (Germany)

2002 Land, Sea and Skye – AICART & ESW Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Isle of Skye (Scotland, UK)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 In Between – screening + book launching, Goethe-Institut, Lisbon (Portugal)

2010 Between Clarity and Fog (2)– Índex Bookshop, Porto (Portugal)

Between Clarity and Fog (2)– Cabine Space, Sopro Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal)

2009 Between Clarity and Fog – Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Supermarket, the international artist-run fair – Kulturhuset, Stockholm (Sweden)

Chain Letter – Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)

Between Document and Fiction – Passos Manuel + Maus Hábitos, Porto (Portugal)

FUSO, Anual de Vídeo Arte Internacional de Lisboa - Museu de História Natural + Carpe   Diem, Lisbon (Portugal)

2010 Res Publica, 1910 and 2010, a Face Off – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal)

Territories of the In/Humane, Narratives of Migration screening – Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (Germany)

Da Outra Margem do Atlântico, examples of Portuguese video and photo – Hélio Oiticia Arts Center, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Cabinet d´Amateur, Sala do Veado 20 years – Sala do Veado, Natural History Museum, Lisbon (Portugal)

And then again... – Pavilhão Preto, Museum of the City, Lisbon (Portugal)

II Bienal de Arte, VIDEOBOX – Ansião Municipality (Portugal)

VIDEOBOX – Sala Itália, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

2009 ARTELISBOA 09, Contemporary Art Fair – Galeria Presença stand, FIL, Lisbon (Portugal)

Biennial 2009, Live Examination - M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum and public spaces, Kaunas (Lithuania)

LÁ FORA [artistas portugueses] - Museu da Electricidade, EDP Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal)

Bodies-Cities, Places-Parts - TELIC/Distributed Gallery, curated by Robert Summers, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Geographies & other Ethnographies: Between Context and Identity - screening at Objectifs, centre for photography & filmmaking, Singapore

Displacements | Deslocações, 4 Portuguese Contemporary Perspectives - IC's Cultural Centers, Praia (Cape Verde) & Luanda (Angola)

Freewaves Highlights - CAA 2009, College Art Association Conference, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Context Video - monthly series by Brian Block, Monkeytown, Williamsburg, NY (USA)

Underconstruction - curated by Mónica de Miranda and Paul Goodwin, Pavillion 28, Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon (Portugal)

Promise | Practice | Protocol - Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany)

Kaunas_Porto - Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Sommerfest 2009 – Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany)

The Moving Index, program 6 – by Art Office, online exhibition at www.artoffice.org

Expo Arte y Bicicleta, IV Festival Internacional de Bicicultura – Quinta Normal Metro Station, Santiago (Chile)

2008 Die Römer VI, Kommunikologie - Projektraum Römerstrasse, Stuttgart (Germany)

HollyWould: LA Freewaves' 11th festival of new media arts - LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA (USA)

Red Line 08_bordering on us - Imerge Gallery, Porto (Portugal)

Stranger than paradise - Presença Gallery, Porto (Portugal)

MAIS MAPUTO (video with ENAV students) - in DOCKANEMA, French-Mozambican Cultural Center, Maputo (Mozambique)

Displacements | Deslocações, 4 Portuguese Contemporary Perspectives - IC's Cultural Centre, S. Tomé, Maputo, & Brasília (Brazil)

LÁ FORA [portuguese artists] - Távora Building, Museum of the Presidency of the Republic, Viana do Castelo (Portugal)

5 de lá, 5 de cá | Portuguese-Brazillian Video Art - Ateliê da Imagem, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

EVR lisbon, e-flux - project by ANTON VIDOKLE and JULIETA ARANDA, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal)

Red Line_where are the borders? - Galerija Meno Parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Where are you from? Contemporary Art from Portugal - Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, GC, Grinnell, IA (USA)

New Polyphonies: Contemporary Art from Portugal - UNI Gallery of Art, Kamerick Art Building, Cedar Falls, IA (USA)

Opções e Futuros 3, recentes aquisições da Fund. PLMJ - Artecontempo Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal)

2007 Iniciativa X - Artecontempo Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal)

Red Line 07_Where are the borders? - Imerge Space, Ideias Emergentes, Porto (Portugal)

Displacements, Four Portuguese contemporary perspectives - EESC European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels (Belgium)

Leben braucht Erinnerung / Life needs memory - Evangelische Stadtakademie Römer 9, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Under the Radar I: Small Gestures (video collaboration) - High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

25 frames per second: videos from the PLMJ Foundation Collection - S. Jorge Theater, Lisbon (Portugal)

2006 Open Show 2006 - Gallery 825 / LAAA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

L.A. Freewaves: 10^th biennial of experimental film, video and new media - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

At Home in the World - Armory Center for the Arts | Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA (USA)

Chain Letter - HEC High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Supersonic 2006 - Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

MFA Thesis Show #3 - New Wight Galleries, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Moonlight Mesa - site-specific in conjunction w/ HDTS (High Desert Test Sites 5), Yucca Valley/Joshua Tree, CA (USA)

Latino-Anglo Culture Clash: Erecting and Breaking Barriers - Museum of the City of New York with Art For Change, New York, NY (USA)

Into the Deep / De Dentro: Exhibition of contemporary Portuguese art - NCCA National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (Russia)

Video Nightmare! - Raid Projects, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Fringefest - Silverlake Film Festival, Arclight Cinemas, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Embodied Technologies - Art Interactive Gallery, Cambridge/Boston, MA (USA)

Design & Experimental Film - James Bridges Theater, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Open Studios (winter & spring) - UCLA Warner Building, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

2005 EDP Award New Artists 2005 - Centro de Portugal Pavillion, Coimbra (Portugal)

AC #8 / DV #2 - ArteContempo Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal)

Borders -The Western Humanities Alliance / Union Gallery at The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (USA)

Unclassifiable Project - Malmofestivalen, Malmö (Sweden)

Shipwreck | Náufragio - with Sofia Ponte, Fine Arts Academy of Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel, Azores (Portugal)

Excessive Projections, Projections of Excess: recent video-work by LA-based artists - CAA conference, Atlanta, GA (USA)

Open Studios (winter & spring) - UCLA Warner Building, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

VIDFEST, Detroit International Video Festival - MONA Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI (USA)

2004 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin - Le Grande Halle de La Villete, Paris (France)

Snap to Grid - LACDA Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

B.J.U.R.E. Biennial Juried Underground Railroad Exhibition - Northern Kentucky University Galleries, OH/KY (USA)

Nomadifesta 2004 - Kasteliotissa Space, Nicosia (Cyprus)

MFA's Colliding - NYU/Pratt group exhibition, Steuben East Galleries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (USA)

2003 Open Studios - Barney Building, Department of Art, New York University, New York, NY (USA)

The Telephone Game - The Commons, Department of Art, New York University, New York, NY (USA)

GetxoArte 2003: emerging arts event - contemporary art fair, Getxo / Bilbao area (Spain)

2002 Insolite/Solite: Contemporary European Art Show - Moagens Harmonia, Porto (Portugal)

Passa_porte, fine arts in erasmus - Palácio Gallery, Porto (Portugal)

Teixeira Lopes / Aurélia de Sousa Awards Exhibition - Casa Tait, Porto (Portugal)

Yellow Fence, Would You Like a Fence? - in "Land, Sea and Skye", Portree Gallery, Isle of Skye (Scotland, UK)

2001 An Innocent Luxury: harpsichord, organ and image recital - audiovisual conception, Municipal Auditorium, Gaia (Portugal)

Light expressions - workshop by Cathy Olive, Campo Alegre Theater & FCT, Porto (Portugal)

2000 FBAUP graduate students exhibition - Library Gallery, S. Maria da Feira (Portugal)

Lacrimosa - video installation, FBAUP Museum, Porto (Portugal)

International Erasmus Exhibition - Sala Araba, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)

Pink lotion: political-sexual practical challenge - Caldeira 213, Porto (Portugal)

Limit -Space (sounding line in a white room)- installation, FBAUP School of Fine Arts, University of Porto (Portugal)

AWARDS and GRANTS

2011  Jury Prize, FUSO 2011,  International Video Art Festival of Lisbon, 3rd Edition (Portugal)

2008-09  Akademie Schloss Solitude Residency Fellowship (Film-Video-New Media), Stuttgart (Germany)

2006  Graduate Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)

2003-06  FULBRIGHT Grant / Carmona e Costa Foundation Grant (for study in the USA), Lisbon (Portugal)

2005-06  Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant / Luso-American Foundation Grant, Lisbon (Portugal)

2005  Samuel Booth Award, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Art Council Award, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)

D'Arcy Hayman Award, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)

EDP Foundation Award New Artists – nomination (Portugal)

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant for exhibition, Lisbon (Portugal)

2004  Graduate Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Louisa Woods Memorial Fund Award (Institute of International Education – USA)

2003  Louisa Woods Memorial Fund Award (Institute of International Education – USA)

Graduate Scholarship, New York University, NY (USA)

Eng. António de Almeida Foundation Award, Porto (Portugal)

2001  Teixeira Lopes Award, Porto (Portugal)

Fernando de Castro Award (University's Outstanding Graduating Student), Porto (Portugal)

2000  Merit Scholarship, School of Fine Arts, University of Porto (Portugal)

1999  Erasmus Scholarship, University of Porto – University of Basque Country (Portugal-Spain)

1998  School of Fine Arts, University of Porto / Giefarte Award to ARCO Fair, Madrid (Spain)

COLLECTIONS

EDP Foundation Collection, Lisbon (Portugal)

PLMJ Foundation Collection, Lisbon (Portugal)

MONA Museum of New Art, Video Collection, Detroit (USA)

New Genres Video Collection, UCLA, Los Angeles (USA)

Luggage Collection, Artrageous Group, Nicosia (Cyprus)

Sculpture Department / FBAUP Museum Collection, Porto (Portugal)

LA Freewaves, online archive, www.freewaves.org (USA)

Anamnese, online archive, www.anamnese.pt (Portugal)

PUBLICATIONS and CATALOGUES

BIBLIOGRAPHY (texts and articles | selection)

2009

Summers, Robert - CAA conference 2009, Los Angeles (USA)

Esquirre magazine, Japanese/Tokyo edition, article about Akademie Schloss Solitude, issue of February 2009

Couto Cunha, Sílvia - Vá para fora cá dentro, Visão magazine, issue of January 2009

2008

Assunção, Francisco -  Other lyrics for the American anthem in "From America", by José Carlos Teixeira, an exhibition in Berlin, Lusa Agency, 2008

Rocha de Sousa, João - Para uma nova Poética, in JL, Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias, # 994, Lisbon, November 5, 2008

Roseira, José - Red_Line 08 | Bordering on us, in catalogue 08, Imerge, 2008

Ribeiro, Amanda - Exposições regressam à rua Miguel Bombarda..., in Público, Local, 21 Setembro 2008 (photo of artwork from Stranger than Paradise)

Pinharanda, João - Stranger than Paradise, text about the exhibition at Presença Gallery, Porto, September 20, 2008

Baeta, João - Sombras Eléctricas, in press release for Espaço Ilimitado exhibition, June 2008

.... - Kuryba be sieny, article on Lithuanian newspaper Kaunodiena, April 11, 2008

Ranceviene, Jurgita - Europoje migruojanti meno kalba uzsuko i Lietuva, in Gyvenimas Lithuanian newspaper, April 9 2008

Meskauskaite, Audrone - Kulturu dialogas prasidejo, in Nemunas, weekly Lithuanian newspaper April 10-16 2008

Reis, Pedro dos - Iowa: An unlikely selection at a rare place, in ArteCapital.net, April 4, 2008

Wright, Lesley - NY Arts magazine, May June issue 2008 (my artwork in photo)

Wright, Lesley - in catalogue Where are you from? Contemporary Portuguese Art, Faulconer Gallery | Grinnell College, 2008

Perez, Miguel von Hafe - Aqui e agora, in catalogue Where are you from? Contemporary Portuguese Art, Faulconer Gallery | Grinnell College, 2008

Marques, Lúcia - Displacements, 4 contemporary Portuguese perspectives, in catalogue What NEXT? Portugal: Between Departures and Arrivals, IC Instituto Camões and EESC European  Economic and Social Committee, 2008

Amado, Miguel - in catalogue Options and Futures 3, recent acquisitions from the Foundation PLMJ collection, 2008

2007

Madureira, Raquel - Arte Contemporânea sem limites no Porto, in Meia-Hora, November 6, 2007

Roussel, Noellie - Portugal Invades Belgium!, in blog www.frenchybutchic.blogspot.com, October 22, 2007

Pomar, Alexandre - José Carlos Teixeira, José Carlos Teixeira 2, in blog www.alexandrepomar.typepad.com, June 28 and July 5, 2007

Oliveira, Filipa - A arte como procura do outro, in L+Arte, Crítica, nº 37, June 2007

Rosenthal, Gisela - Who am I in L.A.?, in catalogue Geographies and Other Ethnographies, Assírio & Alvim and FCC, 2007

Llano, Pedro de - Contexts and Identities in the work of José Carlos Teixeira: 2003-2006, in catalogue Geographies and Other Ethnographies, Assírio & Alvim and FCC, 2007

Teixeira, José Carlos - It´s OK (united) #1#2#3, three steps to a (r)evolution + 38 minutes of anthropology (strangers to ourselves), in catalogue Geographies and Other Ethnographies, Assírio & Alvim and FCC, 2007

Llano, Pedro de - 38 minutes of anthropology (strangers to ourselves), in website Anamnese, section 1A+1P+1A, 2007

· José Carlos Teixeira, Carmona e Costa Foundation, in Quadros em Exposição, Magazine Artes, nº 52, June 2007

2006

Amado, Miguel - Take me Home, It's OK (united), in 25 frames per Second, video in the PLMJ Foundation Collection, Assírio & Alvim, 2006

Vayda, Priscilla Fleming - World Piece, Armory exhibit examines where we best fit in, in San Gabriel Valley Newspapers, December 8, 2006

Hainley, Bruce - Artquake, L.A. may or may be not the new epicenter of the art world, but its art scene is at least an 8 on the Ritcher scale, in The New York Times Magazine, October 1, 2006 (UCLA photo)

Teixeira, José Carlos - It´s OK (united), in Extensions, the online Journal of Embodiment & Technology, vol. 3: Interactivity and Kinesthetic Sense, http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/extensionsjournal/teixeira.htm

· José Carlos Teixeira, Graduate Student Accomplishments, in UCLA Graduate Quarterly, vol. 15, nº 2, winter 2006

2005

Crespo, Nuno - A ambiguidade em exposição, in Público, Mil Folhas, December 31, 2005

Teixeira, José Carlos - (Re)thinking notions of boundary: an interdisciplinary artistic approach, in CAA College of Art Association 93^rd Annual Conference, Atlanta / ABSTRACTS catalog, 2005

2004

Soares de Oliveira, Luísa - Inner.Home.Out.There, residência no CENTA - in Público, Mil Folhas (p. 23), July 24, 2004

· Fachadas são o cenário, residentes os actores, residência artística no CENTA - in Reconquista, July 23, 2004

Allen-Kattus, Kimberly, Ph.D. - Historical Statement, José Carlos Teixeira: Take me Home, in catalogue B.J.U.R.E. Biennial Juried Underground Railroad Exhibition, Northern Kentucky University Press, 2004

2003

Labeaga, Izaskun - Pluralidad de tecnicas, estilos y mensajes, en el Salón de las Artes Emergentes de Getxo, in Gara Kultura, June 8, 2003

J.A.G.C. - Getxoarte se consolida como atrevido escaparate de nuevos talentos, in El Correo, June 7, 2003

2002

Teixeira, Goreti - Trabalhos de Além Fronteiras, Alunos de Belas Artes expõem na Galeria do Palácio, in O Primeiro de Janeiro, August 4, 2002

Norris, Tina - Skye Scapes, Fifteen sculptors have installed themselves on a Scottish Island... and even the lay-bys have become art, in Sunday Herald, Scotland UK, May 5, 2002

Marinho, Luísa - Elos de Ligação, Mostra de Jovens Artistas no MausHábitos, in O Comércio do Porto, January 19, 2002

2001

Castro, Salomé - Assalto à Roupa, Cidade do Porto vira estendal interactivo, in O Comércio do Porto, September 26, 2001

Marques, Mário - Assalto à Roupa no Porto foi um sucesso, in Público, Local, September 26, 2001

Silva, Dario - O estendal, in Público, Local, September 21, 2001

Monteiro, Isabel Rodrigues - Populares 'estragaram' iniciativa: Porto 2001 colocou estendais com roupa no Bom Sucesso e foi tudo levado, in O Primeiro de Janeiro, September 21, 2001

LECTURES  and ARTIST TALKS

2010 Artist Lectures – Vega School and Ekhaya Multi Arts Center, Durban (South Africa)

2009 Artist Lecture – Kaunas Biennial 09, Live Examination, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Cinema and Debate (Thinking Representation), ESAD Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal)

2009 Artist Talk, Between Context and Identity – Objectifs, center for film and photography, Singapore (Singapore)

2008 Internal Presentation – Nadja Schöllhammer and José Carlos Teixeira, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany)

Artist Talk – in Ensaio on Unsheltered Bodies solo show, Espaço Ilimitado, Porto (Portugal)

Visiting Artist Program, Artist Lecture – ESAD Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal)

Geographies & other Ethnographies: Between Context and Identity – Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, IA (USA)

Red Line_Where are the borders? – Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2007 Conversation w/ Pedro de Llano, Geographies & other Ethnographies solo show – Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal)

Artist Lecture – Maumaus, School of Visual Arts, Lisboa (Portugal)

2006 Rethinking the Subject, conference by Robert Summers (with video It's OK) – 32nd Annual Ass. of Art Historians, Leeds University (UK)

2005 Nota Bene – spotlighting the work of emerging scholars and artists – 93rd College Art Association Conference, Atlanta, GA (USA)

Dialogues with Art, program and courses by Magda Henriques – Fundão (Portugal)

2004 Artist Talk – Escola Soares dos Reis, High School for the Arts, Porto (Portugal)

2001 Land Art / Arte Povera – Escola Soares dos Reis, High School for the Arts, Porto (Portugal)

1998 ARTE – 5th University Meeting, Casa de Vilar, Porto (Portugal)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008-11 Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Department, ESAD Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal)

2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Art, University of California Los Angeles, CA (USA)

2000-01/2002-03 Visual Art Education Teacher, Private Junior High School, Externato N. S. Perpétuo Socorro, Porto (Portugal)

2001-2003 Docent (classes, workshops, guided tours), Educational Department, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (Portugal)

CURATORIAL WORK

2011 Curator, Between Document and Fiction, screenings, Maus Hábitos + Passos Manuel Porto (Portugal)

2010 Selection of video works for Take B, Bernardo Museum, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal)

Selection of video works from ESAD, Ogiva Gallery, Óbidos (Portugal)

2002 Co-Curator and co-producer (with Cristina Regadas), Passa_Porte – Belas Artes em Erasmus, group exhibition, Galeria do Palácio, Porto (Portugal)

1997 Co-Curator and co-producer (with Paula Walker), Pontes – 1st edition, group exhibition, Casa de Vilar, Porto (Portugal)