TOMÁS COLAÇO
Avenue Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, 124
90 000 TANGER / (+212) 649656059

Tangier based portuguese visual artist. Born in Lisbon 1974.

Personal Details
Birth Date: 03/01/74
Nationality: Portuguese
Contacts: +212 649656059 (Morocco)
+ 351 936990009 (Portugal)
Education Architectural studies at the University of Architecture of Milan and the University of Architecture of Venice. (1990 / 1995)
Visual Arts Independent Studies at MAUMAUS – School of Visual Arts (2004 – 2007) Lisbon.
Individual Project at Ar.Co (2002 2007) Lisbon.
PhD on History and Theory of Contemporary Art and Architecture at Paris I Sorbonne University of Paris.
DEA at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. The Space From Getty to Goetz - The main subject talks about the private and the public space of art collections directed by Hubert Damisch; Jean Claude Lebensztejn and Umberto Eco. Practice at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Lisbon (2000)

Exhibitions / Happenings

Pension Palace
Happening / Painting– Pension Palace at rooms 3 / 11 / 27
Little Socco – Tangier 2009

We Couldn’t Sit In The Same Room Twice II
Happening / Painting - Poço dos Negros Palace.
Lisbon 2009

Paysage Vue d’Une Fenetre /Landscape seen from a window
Happening / Painting
Villa Tingitane – Private house – Mountain.
Tanger 2008

Idylic Square Metre – Cité Radieuse
Alta de Lisboa / Maumaus Gallery
Lisbon 2008

No Lavadouro Lava-se.
Happening / Instalation
Carnide’s public “Lavadouro”
Lisbon 2008

A Mint Tea at the inhabitant / Un thé a la Menthe Chez L’Abitant / Happening / Painting
France Aline’s apartement,
Tanger, 2007

Pipoca Project - Photo
Tudo menos a Palavra?...| Everything but the word?...,
Instituto Camôes, Lisbon, 2007

Friendly Fire – Photo
Tranquilidade Seguros
Lisbon 2007

To Make a Short Story Long
Villa Leon the African
Tangier, 2006

Please Imagine Living here
Summer’s June, Collect without. (Junho de Verão Colheita Sem Grão)
Goethe Institut
Lisbon, 2006

We Couldn’t Sit In The Same Room Twice
Video instalation Indoors / Outdoors Pal 60” Loop / Drawings / Objects Happening
Galeria Bairro Alto
Lisbon 2006

Eric Pietra’s – Happening / Painting / Drawing
Tangier 2005

João Themudo’s Happening / Painting / Drawing
Estoril, 2005

Reflexos Drawing / Painting / Instalation
St Maria House
Cascais, 2005

Please Relax Video PAL 3.23” Loop
Ver, Ser visto e Máquinas de Ver | Watch, Being Watch and Watching Machines
French Institute, Lisbon, 2005

The Last Tangier Drawings / Happening
Independence Palace
Lisbon, 2001



Upcoming

Background Made for a Moroccan Goat in Marrakesh - AIM Nov 2009