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Teresa Torres was born in 1961, in Portugal, where she lived
until 1975, during the period 1975-1979 she lived in France where she completed
high school and attended art courses at the École Duperré
(Paris). She returned to Portugal (Porto) in 1980, where she completed
the BA in Plastic Arts at Escola de Belas Artes do Porto. She completed
an MA in art craft and design education at University of Surrey Roehampton
(UK) in 1999 and a PhD about art education assessment in 2004 at University
of Roehampton (UK). Since then she lives in Portugal and works in art education
and painting.
She has done several individual exhibitions in Portugal and participated
on art festivals and collective exhibitions in Europe and South America.
Since 1998 she started to work on collaborative projects with visual artists;
poets and musicians organising shows and performances such as the visual/music/poetry
performance ‘Earth without Borders’ realised in three cities of Portugal.
As a member of R2001 group
she promoted eARTh/Ututu multimedia performances in the XI ( 2001) and
XII INTERNATIONAL ART BIENNIAL OF VILA NOVA DE CERVEIRA (2003).
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Collaborative Exhibitions/Performances
2004: Collective with Ali Rashid Moussawi/ Lisbet Oli-Ranstam/ Jari
Santaniemi/ Kimberly Dickinson at Marziart Galerie ( Hamburg, Germany,
February 2004).
2003 : Multimedia project UTUTU/eARTh (R2001) in collaboration
with Seiji Ueoka (Japan) and Sharif Ezzat (USA)
presented at Bienal de Cerveira 2003, Portugal.XII salón
internacional de artes plásticas ACEA’s Barcelona ‘2003, Spain.
Ier salón internacional ACEA’s de artes plásticas y visuales,
Petit format, Barcelona ‘2003, Spain.
2001: Multimedia project UTUTU/earth (R2001) in collaboration
with Seiji Ueoka (Japan) and Sharif Ezzat (USA)
presented at Bienal de Cerveira de 2001, Portugal. Exhibition with
Eleuza de Morais and Nicole Kunzler at Memorial/ Porto Alegre/Bresil.
2000: Threads of Humanity, Wollongong City Gallery, Australia
. R2001 Exhibition, Shomeido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (July 22, 2000, August,
11, 2000). "Conversa a Três"- Centro Cultural de Paranhos.
Porto, Portugal (02/2000).
1999: Start the group alternative1 with visual artists, poets and musicians
. Organise with that group the performance ‘ Earth without borders’ in
three cities of Portugal.
Invited artist at the X Bienal de Cerveira, Portugal. Represent Alternative
1 in the first Festival R2001, Keio/Japan .Organise "Stories of Four"
Galeria Espaço, Porto, Portugal, June 1999
1997: Exposição Colectiva de Artes: Museu dos Loios ;
Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. Organiser: “ Artistas no Mercado “ : Mercado
Ferreira Borges, Porto, Portugal.
1995: Organiser: Exposição : “ Homenagem ao Professor
J. Matos Chaves” at Museu Almeida Moreira, Viseu , Portugal.
1993: Exposição da Inauguração da Casa
da Cultura de Paranhos/ Porto, Exposição colectiva
na Galeria Espaço, Porto, Portugal.
1992: Exposição : " Papel e Barro" , Mercado
Ferreira Borges/ Porto, Portugal.
1991: Organizer: Exposição de Arte do Centro Cultural
de Paredes de Coura, Portugal.
1990: Exposição: " Folias" / E. Soares dos Reis/ Gaia,
Portugal.
1989: Exposição “ Artistas na Quinta”/ Universidade de
Vila Real 1988: Organiser: " Artistas no Mercado” no Mercado
Ferreira Borges/ Porto, Portugal; Exposição Espaço
- Arte , Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.Ceramic panel for Hackenbush
cafe (Verbrogade,124 Copenhagen).
1986: Bienal de Cerveira; Exposição “ Homenagem a Amadeo
de Souza Cardoso “na Árvore , Porto, Portugal. "Novos Novos"/SNBA/Lisboa,
Portugal.
1985: ‘Tempos de memória’, Galeria Módulo/Lisboa,
Portugal. 1ª Exposição de Arte Contemporânea,
Museu Soares dos Reis/ Porto, Portugal.
1984: "Alguns da Nova geração", Galeria Alvarez/Porto/
Póvoa do Varzim; Portugal; "12 Jovens artistas",S.N.B.A./Lisboa,
Portugal.
Individual Exhibitions:
Teresa Torres; Galeria Módulo/ Porto,Portugal (1985)-Teresa
Torres; Galeria Quadrado Azul/ Porto, Portugal (1988)- Ceramics by Teresa
Torres; Galeria Tempo/ Lisboa ,Portugal (1989)- ’Tempo de espantalhos’
Galeria Espaço/ Porto,Portugal (1994) - ’Women Stories’ Galeria
Espaço/Porto, Portugal (1999). - TT,On line Individual exhibition
at NON , 2000. - TT, On line Individual exhibitions at Aladin Gallery
(2001) and El Mundo Arte ( 2001).
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