Francisco Laranjo (1955 – 16 November 2022) was a Portuguese contemporary painter and educator.

Work

Laranjo was born in 1955 in

Lamego Lamego (; cel-x-proto, Lamecum) is a city and municipality in the Viseu District, in the Norte Region of the Douro in northern Portugal. Located on the shores of the Balsemão River, the municipality has a population of 26,691, in an area of 165 ...

, Portugal. He was the director of the School of Arts and associate professor of Porto University and has been lecturer in many universities in cities such as Bilbao, Ottawa, Sheffield, Alexandria, Sofia, Paris and Athens. As an artist, he has exhibited extensively and in several countries, including Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Canada, India, United Kingdom, and China. From his many individual shows, it is possible to highlight the following in

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

(Iter Duriense, Nasoni Gallery, 1993), UK (Simultaneities, Lanchester Gallery,

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and The Gallery in Cork Street, London, 1997), Aylmer,

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and

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, Canada (Intimate Land, Chateau Cartier and Camões Institute, 1998),

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, Brazil (Espelho, Museum of the Republic, 2002), Riga, Latvia (Recent Work, Latvian Academy of Art and Bastejs Gallery, 2002). Laranjo received several scholarships for post-graduate research, including grants from the

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(1981–1983), National Scientific Board (Egypt and The Netherlands, 1995), European Committee (1995–1999) and the

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, Germany. Laranjo lived and worked in Porto, Portugal. He died from cancer on 16 November 2022, at the age of 67.

Museums and public collections

* JAP, Modern Art Centre,

, Lisbon, Portugal * Institute of Contemporary Arts, Kunsan National University, Republic of Korea * Ministry of Culture, Porto, Portugal * Ministry of Finances Collection, Lisbon, Portugal * Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Museum, Amarante, Portugal *

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal * MARGS, Museu de Arte de Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil * ASP, Museum Wroclaw, Poland *

Macao Cultural Centre The Macao Cultural Centre (CCM; ; pt, Centro Cultural de Macau) is a cultural centre in Sé, Macau, China. History The cultural centre was founded in 1999 with a cost of US$100 million. In August 2017, the roof of the cultural center was dama ...

, People's Republic of China * Teixeira Lopes House Museum, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

Other institutions where his work is represented

* Banco Borges & Irmão * Banco Comercial de Macau * Millennium - BCP * Banco de Fomento Nacional * Banco de Portugal * Banco Espírito Santo & Comercial de Lisboa * Banco Internacional do Funchal * Banco Português do Atlântico * Banco Português de Investimento * Banque Nationale de Paris * BIC - Banco Internacional de Crédito * Caixa Geral de Depósitos * Porto University - School of Arts * Porto University - School of Humanities * Cupertino de Miranda Foundation * Eng^o António de Almeida Foundation * Fundação Oriente * Porto Polytechnic Institute *

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References

Sources

* http://www.portoturismo.pt/index.php?cron=1&m=1&s=4&tipo=4 (Porto City Hall tourism website) * http://www.axisart.ca/artists/franciscoLaranjo.php

External links

Francisco Laranjo's website
1955 births 2022 deaths People from Lamego 20th-century Portuguese painters Portuguese male painters University of Porto alumni 20th-century Portuguese male artists 21st-century Portuguese painters {{Portugal-painter-stub