Martinho Dias was born in 1968, in Trofa, Portugal, where lives and works.
Represented in the “NY Arts Annual Catalogue 2009, New York.
1996 - Academic degree in Fine Arts – Painting, by Oporto University.
EXHIBITIONS
2009 - Colective Show, Galeria O Rastro-Algarve, Portugal;
- STAGES, Del Veinte Galeria, Santander, Spain;
- “16 years of complicity in art”, Centro de Artes e Cultura, Ponte de Sor, Portugal;
- Painting, Casa-Museu Soledade Malvar, V. N. Famalicão, Portugal;
- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Servartes – Espaço Cultural, Oporto, Portugal;
2008 - Painting, Biblioteca Municipal de Ponte de Sor, Portugal;
- DIALOGUES and MONOLOGUES, Galeria O Rastro, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
- “arte x arte08”, Bogotá, Colombia;
2007 - WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Museu Santos Rocha, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
- NEW BODY, Espaço SERVARTES, Oporto, Portugal;
- APPLAUSE, painting, Galeria São Bento, Lisbon, Portugal;
- 2nd International Art Fair - artMADRID, by Galeria António Prates, Madrid, Spain;
- 1st winner – Body in Expression, Espaço Servartes, Oporto, Portugal;
2006 - APPLAUSE, painting, Galeria Cañizares, Salvador / Bahia, Brazil;
- 6th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, FIL, by Galeria António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;
- BODY IN EXPRESSION, Espaço Servartes, Oporto, Portugal;
- NEW BODY, painting, Clube Literário do Porto, Oporto, Portugal;
2005 - 5th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, Galeria Pedro Serrenho, FIL, Lisbon, Portugal;
- “Imagens Projectadas # Instalations”, with Vítor Rua, Nuno Rebelo, Phill Niblock, each others,
Casa dos Dias da Água, Lisbon, Portugal;
2004 - Collective exhibition, Galeria Electra, Oporto, Portugal;
2003 - INDISPOSITION, Galeria Santa Clara, Coimbra, Portugal;
- “19th Biennial of Illustrations of Bratislava”, Bratislava, Slovak Republic;
2002 - “2nd Baviera Painting Award” in the Transports and Communication Museum, Oporto, Portugal;
- Honourable Prize in the “2nd Painting Biennial – Young Art”, Penafiel, Portugal;
2001 - “Júlio Resende National Award”, Gondomar, Portugal;
- “11th International Biennial of Art of Vila Nova de Cerveira”, V. N. de Cerveira, Portugal;
2000 - Honourable Prize in the “1st Painting Biennial – Young Art”, Penafiel, Portugal;
- “3rd Biennial of Fine Arts of Marinha Grande”, itinerant to La Granja, Spain;
1999 - "April Days Exhibition ", Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, V. N. de Famalicão, Portugal;
- One of the representatives of Portugal in “The Winsor & Newton Worldwide
Millennium Painting Competition” exhibited in The Mall Galleries, London; World Trade Center
i Stockholm, Stockholm and United Nations Headquarters, New York;
- Collective exhibition, Galeria Delaunay, Vila do Conde, Portugal;
- "11th Biennial of Avante Party", Seixal, Portugal.