João Paulo Feliciano (1963, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal)

Education

1981-1985 Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese and English Studies), Universidade Clássica de Lisboa, Portugal

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Ermida de Nª Senhora da Conceição, Lisboa / Requiem
2009 Galerie Vartai, Vilnius / Music Lessons (Recapitulation)
2009 102-100 Galeria de Arte, Castelo Branco / Quantos artistas um artista pode ser
2009 Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto / Music Lessons (Vol II)
2008 Centro Cultural e Congressos, Caldas-da-Rainha / The Blues Quartet
2008 Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporãnea – Museu do Chiado, Lisboa / The Blues Quartet
2008 Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra / The Blues Quartet
2008 Cristina Guerra Comtemporary Art, Lisboa / Liçíµes de Música (Music Lessons)
2007 Country Club Gallery at The Fairfax, Miami Beach / João Paulo Feliciano + Lee Ranaldo (split show)
2007 Appleton Square, Lisboa / Colour Games
2007 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati / The Blues Quartet (curator: Matt Distel) [book]
2006 Culturgest, Lisboa / The Possibility of Everything – João Paulo Feliciano, Selected Works 1989-1994 (curator: Miguel Wandschneider) [cat.]
2006 Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa / I Got the Blues
2005 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa / There is No Easy Way to Mars (sculpture-installation in the gardens) [broch.]
2005 Galeria Leme, São Paulo / Double Meaning (split show with David Batchelor; curator: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti)
2004 Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto [cat.]
2004 Porta 33, Funchal / SlowMotion (curator: Miguel Wandschneider)
2003 Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa
2000 ESAD, Caldas da Rainha / SlowMotion (curator: Miguel Wandschneider) [leaflet]
1998 Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa / Evolution my Mind (in the context of the exhibition Ernesto de Sousa: Revolution My Body) [poster]
1997 Art Attack, Caldas da Rainha / Light – As Opposed to Darkness / As Opposed to Heavy
1994 Kí¼nstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt
1993 Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisboa / I’ve Always Loved You
1990 Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisboa (with Eugénio Cano)
1990 Galería Oliva Arauna, Madrid
1989 Galerie Transit, Leuven / Portugal + Feliciano (in collaboration with Pedro Portugal)
1988 Galerie De Equilibrist, Sint-Nicklas [cat.]

Group Exhibitions

2010 Centro Cultural Palácio do Egipto, Oeiras; Museu Grão VAsco, Viseu; Museu de Aveiro, Aveiro / “Linguagem e Experiíªncia”, obras da colecção CDG (curator: Pedro Lapa)
2009 Palacete da Quinta da Fonte da Pipa, Loulé  / “A Luz, Por Dentro” (colecção CDG, Art Allgarve)
2009 Galeria do Teatro TEMPO, Portimão  / Forças (colecção BES, Art Allgarve)
2009 Museu de Serralves, Porto / Colecção de Serralves (Ulrich Loock e João Fernandes)
2009 Country Club Gallery, Los Angeles / The joy of Blues
2008 Embaixada de França, Lisboa / Lumiére Toujours
2007 Museu da Cidade Pavilhão Branco, Lisboa / Ponto de Vista (Point of View): Works from the collection of the PLMJ Foundation (curator: Miguel Amado)
2007 MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Gran-Duc Jean, Luxembourg / í€ Propos des Lieux d’Origine, Portugal Agora (curator: Marie-Claude Beaud)
2007 Country Club Gallery, Cincinnati, USA / I Will Be Allright (curators: Matt Distel & Christian Strike)
2007 The Berardo Museum; White Cube / Colour Cube (site-specific installation; permanent display)
2007 Assembleia da República (Portuguese Parliament), Lisboa / 3D – The Berardo Collection at The Portuguese Parliament; curator: Jean-François Chaugnet) [cat.]
2006 Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos / Ponto de Fuga: Obras da Colecção da Fundação de Serralves (curator: João Fernandes) [cat.]
2006 Assembleia da República (Portuguese Parliament), Lisboa / O Poder da Arte (organized by Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves; curator: João Fernandes) [cat.]
2005 Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto / Tableaux Vivants – Obras da Colecção de Serralves (curators: Ulrich Loock e Sandra Guimarães)
2005 Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, Lisboa / O Contrato Social (curator: João Pinharanda) [cat.]
2005 Galería Oliva Arauna, Madrid / Veinte años y un dia
2004 Assembleia da República (Portuguese Parliament), Lisboa / Entre Duas Luzes (organized by Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; curator: Jorge Molder) [cat.]
2004 Pavilhão de Ibirapuera, São Paulo / XXVI Bienal de São Paulo (curator: Alfons Hug) [cat.]
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania / Shake the Limits [Re-Location] (curator: Maria Bojan) [cat.]
2003 Paris, Madrid, Lisboa (mobile road show) / Voyager 03 (ExperimentaDesign 2003) [broch.]
2001 Museu de í‰vora, í‰vora; Galeria Trem, Faro; Museu Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Amarante / Modos Afirmativos e Declinaçíµes: Alguns Aspectos do Desenho na Década de 80 (curator: João Pinharanda) [cat.]
2001 Milano, London, Lisboa, Barcelona (mobile road show) / Voyager 01 (ExperimentaDesign 2001) [broch.]
2000 Hayward Gallery, London / Sonic Boom: The Art of Sound (curator: David Toop) [cat.]
2000 Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Porto / A Arte, o Artista e o Outro – Obras da colecção Caixa Geral de Depósitos (curator: Miguel Von Haffe Perez [cat.]
1999 Lux-Frágil, Lisboa / Festival do Fim [broch.]
1997 Exposição itinerante / Travelling exhibition; Braga, Viana do Castelo, Amarante, Guimarães, Paredes, Santo Tirso, Bragança / Arte Portuguesa dos Anos 90 na Colecção de Serralves (curator: Marta Moreira de Almeida) [cat.]
1998 Galeria ZDB, Lisboa / Art Attack na ZDB [book]
1997 Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras / Anatomias Contemporãneas (curators: Paulo Mendes e Paulo Cunha e Silva) [cat.]
1997 Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisboa / Portfolio
1997 Museu Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz; Sala de Las Atarazanas, Valencia / Ecos de la Matéria [cat.]
1995 Sparkasse Gutersloh, Bonn / Bildloses Abbild (curator: Isabel Carlos) [broch.]
1996 Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisboa / Titanium Exposé (curator: Rui Toscano)
1995 Galería Thomas March, Valencia / Peninsulares (curator: João Fernandes)
1994 Culturgest, Lisboa / Arte & Dinheiro (curator: Alexandre Melo) [book]
1994 Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa / Depois de Amanhã (curator: Isabel Carlos) [cat.]
1994 Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid / Uno cada Uno
1994 Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa / Múltiplas Dimensíµes (curator: Luísa Ramos) [cat.]
1994 Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisboa / The Independent Worm Saloon
1993 Casa de Serralves, Porto; Culturgest, Lisboa / Imagens para os Anos 90 (curator: Fernando Pernes) [cat.]
1992 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid / Identidad / Diversidad (curators: Fernando Calhau and Margarida Veiga) [cat.]
1992 Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisboa / Joaquim Bravo – Reencontros [cat.]
1992 Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisboa / Already Made
1991 Galerie De Equilibrist, Sint-Nicklaas / The Floor Show
1991 Galerie De Equilibrist, Sint-Nicklaas / SNAP
1991 Mosteiro de São Francisco, Beja / Manifesto (curator: Cerveira Pinto) [cat.]
1990 Galerie De Equilibrist, Sint-Nicklaas / The Black Show
1989 Loja do Desenho, Lisboa / Espaços
1989 Haagse Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst, Den Haag / Rien ne va plus, faites vos y(j)eux [cat.]
1989 Moving Space Gallery, Gent / 3 x (2×1) Propositions
1989 Galeria Quadrum, Lisboa / Ases da Paleta (João Paulo Feliciano, Pedro Portugal, Manuel João Vieira e Fernando Brito)
1988 Galerie Christine et Isy Brachot, Brussels
1987 Galeria CAPC, Coimbra
1985 Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisboa / Arte nos Anos 80
1985 Chaves / II Bienal de Arte Jovem
1984 Lagos / II Bienal de Lagos

Public Collections

Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisboa
Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto
Museu Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz
Museu Berardo, Lisboa
Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Elvas (colecção António Cachola), Elvas

His work is represented in several private collections in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Brazil and USA.

Music / Performance (selection)
2009 – … Performing more or less regularly with Real Combo Lisbonense
2008 CCC, Centro Cultural e de Congressos, Caldas da Rainha, / Live with the Blues Quartet / (Márcia, João Paulo Feliciano, Paulo Morais)
2007 Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA / Live with the Blues Quartet / (João Paulo Feliciano, Lee Ranaldo, Rafael Toral, Trevor Tremaine)
2004 Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto / playing the White Cube / Colour Cube (João Paulo Feliciano, Sei Miguel Quartet, David Toop, Rafael Toral)
2002 Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto, and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa (João Paulo Feliciano, Lee Ranaldo, Rafael Toral, Leah Singer)
2002 FAD, Barcelona / Landscope + Elastic Void
2001 Old Trumman Brewery, London / Houselab (João Paulo Feliciano, Rafael Toral, Rui Gato), part of Voyager 01
2001 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / Em Tempo Real (collaboration between Houselab and Nova Dança 4)
2000 Expo2000, Hannover / Houseware Experience: Explorations in Live Mixed Media
2000 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa / Em Tempo Real (collaboration between Houselab and Nova Dança 4), Encontros Acarte
1999 ZDB Gallery, Lisboa / Guitar Piece and Early Winter by Phill Niblock (with Phill Niblock)
1999 Central Tejo, Lisboa / Houseware Experience (Experimenta Design 1999)
1999 Vila Nova de Foz Coa and Lux-Frágil, Lisboa / playing the White Cube / Colour Cube (João Paulo Feliciano, Rafael Toral, Peter Renberg, Christian Fennesz), Encontros Internacionais de Poesia
1999 Aula Magna, Lisboa / OpticoSonic Electronics (by No Noise Reduction; opening act for Sonic Youth’s concert)
1998 Expo’98, Lisboa (with Tina and the Top Ten)
1995 XFM, Lisboa; Rádio Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra; Rádio Litoral Oeste, í“bidos / On Air (live radio gigs by No Noise Reduction)
1994 Berlin / Urban Aboriginals Festival (with Mimi)
1993 Aniki Bóbó, Porto / Automated Guitars (solo)
1993 Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York (with Roger Kleyer, Ann Gosfield, David T. Dienes)
1993 iEar Studios, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (with David T. Dienes)
1993 Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisboa / Solo for Voice Nº 23 by John Cage (No Noise Reduction)
1992 Palau de la Musica, Valencia / The Moneyland Experience (João Paulo Feliciano, Mário Feliciano, Gonçalo Santos, Pedro Falcão)
1991 Galeria Monumental, Lisboa / Concert for 10 Guitars by Rafael Toral
1989-1998 Several concerts with Tina and the Top Ten
1991-1992 Several concerts with Pop Dell’ Arte

Discography

Real Combo Lisbonense
2009 Real Combo Lisbonense, Optimus Discos (under license from Pataca Discos), 6 track EP, Optimus Discos 012

No Noise Reduction
2004 A Call For Silence, compilation, Sonic Art Networks, CD numa embalagem 7″ / CD on a 7″ package (curator: Nicollas Collins)
2000 Sonic Boom, compilation, Hayward Gallery, CD (part of the exhibition catalogue)
1997 On Air, Ananana NNN 001, CD
1995 The complete No Noise Reduction, Moneyland Records MLR 0495, CD
1991 Em Tempo Real, split CD, El Tatu ET 91004, CD

Tina and the Top Ten
2003 Super Caldas, compilation, A062 (without ref.), CD
1996 Cais do Rock, compilation, LowFly Records LF052, CD
1996 Teenagers from Outer Space, compilation, Beekeeper Bee 012 + Milkshake Milk 01, LP
1994 Teenage Drool, El Tatu 94003, CD
1994 No More, El Tatu ET 94003, CD-ep
1993 Everslick, Moneyland Records MLR 002, 7″ single
1992 3 x 7″ singles, compilation, Moneyland Records MLR 001, triple 7” single
1992 Distorção Caleidoscópica, compilation,MTM Records (without ref.), LP
1990 Yeah Trips, self released under the label Moneyland Studios, cassette (without ref.)

Collaborations
2010 Rafael Toral, Space Elements Vol II, Staubgold, Staubgold digital 5, CD
2003 Simpletone, Frágil 21, compilation, Columbia, Sony Music COL 512668 2, CD
2003 Simpletone, untitled, compilation, Borland BL 007, CD
1999 Red Beans & Mumo, Supergat, A062 (without ref.), CD
1996 Gasoleene, Polaroid Dreams, self-released under the label Strange Episode), CD
1996 Ithaka, Flowers and the Colors of Paint, Fábrica de Sons FS100.003, CD
1992 Pop Dell’ Arte, Ready Made, Variodisc / Amro,mini-LP
1992 Pop Dell’ Arte, 2002, Variodisc / Amro,maxi-12″
1991 Vítor Rua, Vidya, Potlatch (without ref.), LP

Solo
1997 Do Astronauts Fart Inside Their Space Suits, Beekeeper BEE 009, cassete (with TVT)
1996 New Music from Portugal, Vol.1, compilation, Ananana HHH 001, CD

Other Activities
2009- …
“” Founder of the music band Real Combo LIsbonense.
2000-2007
“” Member of the artistic direction board of Experimenta Design – Bienal de Lisboa / member of Associação Experimenta.
2003
“” Curator of the exhibition Expanded, Experimenta Design 2003, Cordooaria Nacional, Lisboa
1999-2000
“” Music and new media consultant for ACARTE, Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
“” Original concept and art direction of the project Houseware Experience: Explorations in Live Mixed Media, Experimenta Design 1999, Lisboa e / and Expo2000, Hannover
1997-1998
“” Co-authorship (with Alberto Lopes and Mário Carneiro) and artistic direction of the Acqua Matrix show, Expo’98, Lisbon (presented daily during 129 consecutive days)
1994-1995
“” Promoter and programmer of the club Dreamers, Foz do Arelho, Portugal
“” Organizer and programmer of Teenage Drool Festival, Johnny Guitar, Lisboa
1994
“” Co-founding partner of the graphic design studio Secretonix (with typographic designer Mário Feliciano)
1992-1995
“” Founder and main driving force of Moneyland Records (ed. Sonic Youth, Tina and the Top Ten, No Noise Reduction, Red Beans, Rafael Toral, among others)