Juliao Sarmento Portugal, b. 1948

Julião Sarmento was born in 1948 in Lisbon.

He lives and works in Estoril. He studied at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes, Lisbon.

His work combines film, video, sound, painting, sculpture, and installation, and deals with themes such as psychological interaction, sensuality, voyeurism, and transgression. In his works, he often partially or completely erases images, and then draws over the erased area, creating fragmented and layered forms that evoke baffling and mysterious gestures and relationships.

Sarmento has been included in two Documentas and has represented Portugal in two Venice Biennales. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern Contemporani de Palma de Mallorca; Parrish Art Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; and the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium, among others.

He has participated in various group exhibitions and his work is part of public and private collections such as: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.