Carlos Noronha Feio 1981
Live and work in London

Carlos Noronha Feio has a diverse practice that includes actions, performance, video, drawing, painting, photography and installation as research into cultural, local and global identity. He frequently adopts culturally significant images, locations and symbols as a form of creative interference with meaning, and demonstrates the almost arbitrary nature in which cultural significance is adopted or interpreted.
Noronha Feio uses improvisation, repetition and the conflicts of juxtaposition to explore issues of communicating with otherness and the inherent fluidity of meaning. His work is alternately charmingly seductive, profound and irreverently playful, yet ultimately a record of Noronha Feio’s attempts to explore and then to understand other perspectives and cultural viewpoints and how he might be able to connect with them.
Carlos Noronha Feio was born in Portugal in 1981. He completed an MRes (Masters of Research) Arts Practice at the University of the Arts London, an M.A Fine Art at Middlesex University, London and is currently undertaking a PhD at the Royal College of Art in London. He has exhibited and performed widely in the UK and abroad including the Whitechapel Gallery, London, NCCA-National centre for contemporary art, Moscow, Navicula Artis, Saint Petersburg, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Colchester Art Centre, Colchester, Abrons Art Centre, New York, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação EDP in Lisbon and Centro cultural Helio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro. Noronha Feio is represented by Galeria Nuno Centeno in Porto and IMT Gallery in London.

Selected Solo shows

2013 Jan- ..., Museu da Luz, Portugal
2012 ..., MOCA London, London, UK
2012 Mar- Plant Life of the Pacific World, IMT Gallery, London, UK

2011 - Trying to reach Point Zero, Carpe diem Arte e pesquisa, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 - 3,2,1, A A and away, 1, 2.., Bridport Art Centre, Dorset, UK
2010 - Snow wall, will you show us the way to restart it all?, TPTP project space, Paris, France
2010 - Snow wall, will you show me the way to restart it all?, The Mews Project Space, London, UK
2010 - Snow wall, will you show me the way to restart it all?, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal
2009 - A A and away, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2009 - To reach point zero/tentando alcançar o ponto zero, Galeria Nuno Centeno (former Reflexus Arte Contemporânea), Porto, Portugal
2009 - A A and away, Sopro projecto de arte contemporanea, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - What now?, Project room / Reflexus Arte Contemporânea , Porto, Portugal
2008 - Estação de exportação (OPO), Reflexus Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
2008 - Ironic dead futures, Sala da Caldeira, Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal
2006 - Hail.., Arts at Carnaby project, London, UK

Selected group shows

2012 - This This Monster This Things, Organized by Giorgio Sadotti, Focal Point Gallery, South End, UK

2011 - Radio Arts Space, Selected by Milica Pekic´, December 7th – 15th 2011, S¹KUC gallery, Ljubljana & December 7th – 15th 2011, from 12:00 – 22:00, FM88.8MHz, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Carlos Noronha Feio & Ergo Phizmiz)
2011 - Pixel Pops 2011, Curated by Philip Tonda of TPTP, Nouvel Organon, Paris, France
2011 - Image Wars, Abrons Art Centre, New York, USA
2011 - Longe daqui, aqui mesmo, by Fábio Morais and Marilá Dardot, 29 Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 - IMT at Banner repeater, Banner Repeater, London, UK
2010 – Da outra margem do Atlântico: alguns exemplos da fotografia e do vídeo português, curated by Paulo Reis, Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010 - ...and then again..., curated by Ana Fonseca and Liz Collini, Pavilhão Preto, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 - Trienal do Vale do Tejo, curated by Rui Gonçalves Cepeda, Portugal
2010 - Skinjobs with…, Two Jonnys’ art space, London, UK
2010 - Salon, The Embassy, Edindurgh, UK
2010 - Opções e Futuros, Espaço Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 – à crise.. , Sopro projecto de arte contemporanea, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 - The Mews drawing salon, The Mews Project space, London, UK
2009 - Still moving still, Arte Contempo, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 - Lá Fora, curated by João Pinharanda and co-organized with Museu da Presidencia, Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 - XV Bienal de Cerveira, curated by Carlos França, Galeria Projectos, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
2009 - Identidade e Simulacro, curated by Luís Serpa, Junho das Artes, Obidos, Portugal
2009 - Está a morrer e não quer ver, curated by José Maia, Espaço Campanhã Porto, Portugal
2009 - Vestigio, Pavilhao 28, Hospital Julio de Matos, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - Group Show, Reflexus Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal
2008 - Leilão Silencioso, A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto, Portugal
2008 - New Video Art from Europe, Blow de la Barra/111 (37 Heneage St), London, UK
2008 – Painting room, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2007 - XIV Bienal de Cerveira, Portugal
2007 – Peer Esteem, Five Years Gallery, London, UK
2007 – 657 ,CNF Projects & Mo.TIV Productions, London, UK
2007 - Tell me something/Dimmi Qualcosa, Centro Culturale di Socchieve, Italy
2007 – London. UK/UD, curated by Alessandro Venuti, 3G Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy
2007 - Celeste Art Prize, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, UK
2007 - Celeste Art Prize, London, UK

Performances

2012 - February - Instruction Manual Number One: Washing the Flags (video performance and performance via internet), CCA Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

2011 - Instruction Manual Number One: Washing the Flags (video performance and performance via internet),Dienstag Abend at Ve.Sch - Verein für Raum und Form in der bildenden Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2010 – Snow wall, will you show us the way to restart it all?, 24 hour performance, TPTP Space, Paris, France
2010 – Snow wall- action, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal
2008 – Work in progress, (with Vera Santos and Martinha Maia) Presentation of Interdisciplinary and technological Performance Art, Brooklyn College at Programa Criatividade, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - 3 actions for a constricted/contrived confrontation, NCCANational Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2008 - 3 actions for a constricted/contrived confrontation, Navicula Artis, St.Petersburg, Russia
2007 - Carlos Noronha Feio/Mara Castilho Performances, Bacalhoeiros, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 – 3 actions for a constricted/contrived confrontation, Live Art Platform, Colchester Art Centre, UK
2007 - Silver spoon, East end Collaborations, London, UK
2007 - Silver Spoon, Circuit Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
2006 - Battle Fields, phase one, WormHole Salon @ Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

Screenings

2011 – Atlantic Ocean - TESOL International Film & Art Exhibit :NYC Fall 2011, Curated by Marisol Tirelli Rivera, New York, USA
2011 – Between Document and Fiction, Curated by José Carlos Teixeira, Maus Habitos & Passos Manuel Cinema, Porto, Portugal
2011 - Snow wall, will you show me the way to restart it all?, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK
2009 - Simple Movements for a Meaning - São Carlos Opera house, Kortfilmfestivalen 60 seconds, Kulturnat I metro Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 - The one minute Foundation, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - Sala de Projecção (Projection Festival), Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - ABC Cineclube no Cinema São Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal

Books

2011 - The Art of not Making. The new artist artisan relationship, by Michael Petry,
Thames &Hudson
2009 - A A and away, Carlos Noronha Feio, text by Alex Michon, Transition Editions , London, UK

Grants

2012 - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Full PhD grant for PhD at the Royal College of Art, London, UK
2010 – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation UK. For production of a major new artwork to exhibit at the Bridport Art Centre, UK
2009 - Instituto Camões for A A and away, Book published by Transition Editions, London, UK
2009 - Fundação EDP for A A and away, Book published by Transition Editions, London, UK
2008 - Fundação EDP for performances at the NCCA- National Centre for Contemporary Art Moscow and Navikula Artis in S.Petersburgh, Russia
2006 - National campaign for the arts, Arts at Carnaby project, London, UK

Collections

Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal
Navikula Artis, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Collection of Jose Pedro Paço de Arcos, Portugal
Collection of José Correia Lima
Collection of Arq. Jorge Gaspar, Portugal
Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal
Collection of Detmar Blow, UK
Collection Arquivo Historico Wanda Svevo, São Paulo Biennial Foundation (artist book), Brazil

Awards

2007 – Finalist, Celeste Art Prize, London, UK
2006 - Shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize, London, UK

Lectures / Talks / Seminars

2011 - Carlos Noronha Feio & William Cobbing Entropy and Fluidity in Afghanistan, The Practice Exchange, Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London, UK
2011 - Carlos Noronha Feio & Xenofon Kavvadias, The Modern Language Experiment at La Scatola Gallery, London, UK ( online at http://www.modernlanguageexperiment.org/talks.html )
2011 – Carlos Noronha Feio, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK
2011 – Carlos Noronha Feio & Michael Petry in conversation, Bridport Art Centre, UK
2010 - Carlos Noronha Feio & The Mews Project Space - Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2010 - TPTP Space, Paris, France
2009 - Trying to Reach point Zero, Reflexus, Porto, Portugal
2008 – Carlos Noronha Feio, NCCA National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Press / Interviews

2011 - Works of Art for All Surfaces, Art Critiqued (link)
2011 - Molduras, Interview: Rachel Korman from Carpe Diem, Antena 2 (State Radio). In Portuguese. ( link )
2011 - BC: Carlos Noronha Feio, interviewed by Philip Tonda for TPTP Presents, Paris, France
2011 - Afghan War Rugs Remixed, Animal New York (link)
2011 - East Broadway & Grand St – Vandal Lust, Image Wars & Frame, Inspirational Lunch (link)
2010 - Frase of the week, Revista Actual, Expresso Newspaper, Portugal
2010 - X Tema, 1 hour interview, José Reis, Radio Universitaria do Minho, Portugal, www.rum.pt
2010 - Opções e Futuros, text by Elsa Garcia, Time Out Lisbon, Portugal (link to web version)
2010 – Carlos Noronha Feio, Arte, Casa Claudia, February 2010 Issue, pag. 18, text by Ana Jorge.
2009 - Russell Herron’s Pick Of First Thursday 1st October, FAD. (link)
2009 – whowhatwhere insight: Satellite (good news - birth and fertility- faith -wheels of fortune) Carlos Noronha Feio in conversation with Alli Sharma, pag. 56, Garageland Magazine, Migration Issue
2009 - Carlos Noronha Feio, text by Rui Gonçalves Cepeda, Lapiz 250/1 Magazine, February/March, Pag. 186, Spain
2009 - Revelações-vá Para for a cá dentro, text by Sílvia Couto Cunha, Revista Visão, 29th of January, Portugal
2009 - Condições transculturais, text by Rui Gonçalves Cepeda, Mercado da Arte, Revista NS from Diario de Noticias Newspaper, 14th of February, Portugal
2009 - Carlos Noronha Feio, Em Foco, Revista Relance, pag. 71, February 2009, Portugal
2009 - monumentos, recordações e outras ruinas, text by Luísa Soares de Oliveira, Revista Ipsilon from Publico Newspaper, 16/01/2009, Portugal
2008 - Entertainment News, broadcast 24/04/08, Russia Today, Canal TV, Russia, Satelite
2008 - Magazine Europa Contacto, broadcast 28/02/08, RTP I, Canal TV, Portugal, Satelite
2008 - Underground, text by by Carlos França, O Primeiro de Janeiro, 4/02/08, Portugal
2008 - Carlos Noronha Feio inaugura exposicoes em Londres e Porto, 11/02/08, LUSA State News Agency, Portugal
2008 - Top 10 London Shows January, The Painting room, Saatchi web magazine, UK
2008 - The Painting room, January, Saatchi web magazine, UK
2007 - Arte Contemporania em Lisboa, DIF Magazine, November 2007, Portugal
2007 - XIV Bienal de Cerveira Special Edition Catalogue, Portugal
2007 - Circuito: Segredos desvendados, Umbigo Magazine, June 2007, Portugal
2007 - Circuit, Neo2, May 2007, Portugal
2007 - Artista Portugues finalista do Art Prize, Diario de Noticias, 26/05/08 , Portugal

Catalogue

2011 - Opções e Futuros. Volume 2, PLMJ foundation, Lisbon
2010 - Da outra margem do Atlântico: alguns exemplos da fotografia e e do vídeo português, Dardo Publishing, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2010 - ...and then again..., curated by Ana Fonseca and Liz Collini, Pavilhão Preto, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 - Opções e futuros, Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 - Identidade e Simulacro, Junho das Artes, Obidos , Portugal
2009 - Vestigio, Pavilhao 28 , Hospital Julio de Matos, Portugal
2009 - Lá Fora, Fundação EDP/Museu da Presidencia da Republica, Portugal
2009 - Programa Criatividade, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2008 - One minute fountadion Lisbon workshop, One minute Foundation/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2007 - Joining the dots, DVD, Colchester art Centre, UK
2007 - Joining the Dots, DVD, East end Collaborations, UK
2007 - Valencia Art Fair Catalogue, Spain
2007 - XIV Bienal de Cerveira Catalogue, Portugal
2007 - Celeste art prize Catalogue, UK
2006 - Celeste art prize Catalogue, UK
2006 - Space between DVD , UK

CNF Projects

The Mews Project Space, Co-director with Mikael Larsson since April 2009, London, UK
www.the-mews.org

Vestigio.org, Co-organizer with Romeu Gonçalves, (2009 /2010), Portugal
www.vestigio.org

Mercado de Futuros /Futures Market, collaboration with Mikael Larsson,
2011 - Sluice Art Fair, London, UK
2010 - The Mews project Space at Lisbon Art Fair, Lisbon, Portugal

2009 - à crise.. , co-curated with Rui Almeida, Sopro projecto de arte contemporanea, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 - 657 works in progress, CNF Projects & Mo.TIV Productions, London, UK

Published articles

2010/January - Tehching Hsieh, Umbigo Magazine, Portugal
2009 - Conversa com Gabriel Abrantes, www.infinitoaoespelho.blogspot.com
2008/September - Mad for Real, DIF Magazine, Portugal
2008/March - Bruno Pacheco, DIF Magazine, Portugal
2008/February - Cultura como Guerra Fria, DIF Magazine, Portugal
2008/February - Franko B, DIF Magazine, Portugal

Qualifications

2011-..... - PhD Practice based, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2010-2011 - MRes art research and practise, CCW Graduate School, UAL, London, UK
2004-2005 - MA Fine Art Theory and Practice, Middlesex University, London, UK
2001-2004 – BA (hons) Fine Art, Middlesex University, London, UK
2000-2001 - BTEC Foundation in Art and Design, Camberwell College of Art, London, UAL, UK


Other Education

2008 - The One Minute Foundation Workshop, Funda?‹o Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 – Interdisciplinary and Technological Performance Art, Brooklyn College at Programa Criatividade, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 - Soho Theatre Young Writers Course (10weeks).