Eduardo NERY

Eduardo Nery was born at Figueira da Foz, in Portugal, in 1938. Lives and works in Lisbon.

Received degree in painting from the Fine Arts University of Lisbon, in 1969; worked in tapestry under painter Jean Lurçat, in Saint-Céré, France, from 1960/61.

Works in the fields of painting, drawing, engraving, tapestry, ceramics, stained glass, mosaics, design and photography. From 1967 he took part in several architectural works and urban spaces, carring out various projects for mural paintings; ceramic tiles panels; stained glasses for churches; one cupola and some interior and exterior walls in mosaics; mural reliefs (metallic, in ceramics and in concrete); metallic railings; large paving designs in different colours of stones; the decoration of a subway station in Lisbon, and of two new railway stations, in Oporto and Lisbon. Author of projects of colour for housing developments, in which it is included the environmental colour planning of two new Portuguese towns.

Awards: Has received 23 awards and honourable mentions: 6 in Italy, 1 in Spain, 1 in Monaco and 15 in Portugal.

One-man exhibitions: Centre Culturel Portugais, Paris (1973); Wenger Gallery, San Diego, U.S.A.(1973); The Judge Gallery, Washington (1984); travelling exhibition of photography in San Diego, Irvine and Los Angeles, organized by the United States International University and the Wenger Gallery, of San Diego, U.S.A. (1984/85); Macao and Beijing, P.R. of China, organized by the Fundação Oriente and Instituto Camões (2002); Maihaugen Museum, Norway (2007); Musée d’Art Africain de Dakar, 2007; 42 one-man shows of painting, drawing, collage, tapestry, photography and public art in Lisbon; 7 in Oporto, 4 in Coimbra (Portugal), 3 in Ponta Delgada (Portugal, Azores), 2 in Cascais, 2 in Tomar, etc.

Collective and group exhibitions: with painting, drawing, engraving, photography, tapestry and ceramics has participated in more than 200 exhibitions in Portugal, and 70/80 abroad, in U.S.A., France, England, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Finland, Monaco, Brazil, Japan, Colombia, Taiwan, P.R.China, Canada, etc.

Museums: represented in 25 Art Museums, among them in the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (New York); in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; in  Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada; Maihaugen Museum, Norway; in the Museu de Arte de Macau, Popular Republic of China, in the Centro de Arte Moderna José Azeredo Perdigão (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) Lisbon; in the Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Serralves Foundation), Oporto, in the Berardo Collection Museum and in the Museu do Chiado, Lisbon.