About the work

Gone and never to return and being for myself alone a remembrance of things to come, who fancied being a human. – Jorge Quieroz

It is impossible to relate this or other drawings by Queiroz to a world describable in words, but on the level of dream and subconscious they make perfect sense. Quieroz's drawings are embodied spaces which are defined by the signifying marks that resemble people and objects. – Kate Macfarlane

Date and country of birth

1966, PT

About the artist

Born 1966 Lisbon, Jorge Queiroz lives and works in Lisbon. Graduated from MFA School of Visual Arts New York (1999).

The post-symbolic universe of Jorge Queiroz crosses drawing and painting into a diachronic dialogue in which both artistic practices contaminate and influence each other. His self-fictionalized scenarios are not inhabited by any organization or hierarchy, subverting the relationship figure-background or interior-exterior in an intimate and personal imaginary. It has been a constant in his work the absence a narrative linearity. Queiroz has been developing its own universe; an enigmatic, extravagant and even alchemical one.

Selected solo exhibitions include c for heads/h para cabeças, Sismógrafo, Porto (2018); Jorge Queiroz: Work on Paper, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (2015-16); O Caso, Galeria Municipal Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon (2015); VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin (2014); Devaizo das pedras da calçada, a praia!, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon (2012); Symmetrical Owl, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels (2011); and Studio Guenzani, Milan (2004). Selected group exhibitions include  Incorporated! Les Ateliers de Rennes Biennale D’Art Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (2016); Works on Paper, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2014); New Impressions of Raymond Roussel, Tres Moscas, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013); Drawing 2011, Biennial Fundraiser, Drawing Room, London (2011); Nathalie Obadia at Esther Schipper, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2010); Mediterrean 2008, Perna Foundation, Ravello (2008); 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006); and 50th Biennale of Venice, Arsenale-Clandestine, Venice (2003).

Residencies include Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.