Julião Sarmento

Portugal, 1948 – 2021
Julião Sarmento was born in 1948 in Lisbon, and lived and worked in Estoril, Portugal. He studied Painting and Architecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. During his career, Sarmento worked with different mediums: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film, video, performance, sound and installation. He also developed different site-specific projects. He had numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world over the past five decades. Julião Sarmento represented Portugal at the 46th Venice Biennale (1997). He participated in the Documenta 7 (1982) and Documenta 8 (1987), the Venice Biennale (1980 and 2001) and the São Paulo Biennale in 2002. His work is represented in several public and private collections in North and South America, Europe and Japan.