Samuel Rama (Portugal, 1977)
Graduated in Visual Arts at the Superior School of Arts and Design in Caldas da Rainha, where he has been teaching since 2003. PhD in Visual Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Artist and teacher, his activity focuses on researching the intricate and complex relationship between the means of sculpture, drawing and photography with the notions of landscape. Among his solo exhibitions, the following stand out: 2023, INSPIRARE, Galeria 111, Lisbon, Portugal; 2017, Perípatos Concretos, Galeria 111, Lisbon, Portugal; 2012, MEGAPARSECS, Teatro da Politécnica, Lisbon, Portugal; 2010, SCANNING, Arquivo Fotográfico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; 2008, MAGMA, Galeria 111, Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal; 2005, Habitar a Penumbra, Módulo – Centro Difusor de Arte, Oporto, Portugal. Of his group exhibitions, the following stand out: 2019, Studiolo XXI Desenho e afinidades, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal; 2018, Drawing Room, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; 2017, Drawing Now Paris, le Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France; 2007, Pilot Archive, Venice Biennale, Atelier Fondazione Bevilacqua La Massa, Monastery ss. Cosma e Damiano,Venice, Italy; 2005, Da Outra Margem do Atlântico – Alguns Exemplos do Vídeo e da Fotografia Portuguesa, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2005, London Pilot 2, London, U.K.; 2005, 7 Artistas ao 10.º mês, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. Finalist in the awards: IV International Expanded Painting Prize (2007), Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón, Spain and X Mostra Internacional UNION FENOSA (2008), Museo de Arte Contemporâneo União Fenosa, Coruña, Spain. His work is represented in the collections of Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Novo Banco, MAR – Museu de Arte do RIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Manuel de Brito, PLMJ, and many others.