contact: tiagofmadaleno@gmail.com

 
 
bio: Tiago Madaleno (1992, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal).
Lives and works in Porto.
 

Tiago Madaleno is an artist whose approach to artmaking is transdisciplinary. His creative process attempts to establish a dialogue between different medias' histories, properties and specificities, in order to build fictional worlds that reflect upon image making, language and performance. 
 
Madaleno studied at the Department of Fine Arts, University of Porto, where he was awarded a Master's degree in Painting (2016) with the project Clepsydra – Image, document and action.

In 2023, he was shortlisted for 13º Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Prize and was distinguished with the Grupo dos Amigos da Biblioteca-Museu Acquisition Prize. In 2019, he received the artistic grant Criatório, awarded by the Porto City Council, for the research and production of the project A Garden at Night. In 2017, he won the Novo Banco Revelação Prize, promoted by Serralves Foundation, and was distinguished with the Viana de Lima/Esposende City Council Prize for academic merit.
 
Madaleno has exhibited his artwork since 2013.
Special mention to the solo shows Smoke Room (2023), at Museu Guerra Junqueiro, Porto; Light of September (2022), at Galeria do Paço, Braga; A Garden at Night (2020), at RAMPA, Porto; Honeymoon (2019) at Appleton - Cultural Association, Lisbon and at Espaço Pontes, Fundão; Clepsydra (2017-2018), at Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, Porto; From Mouth to Sprout (2016) at Lugar do Desenho, Júlio Resende’s Foundation, Gondomar.
He has been part of numerous group exhibitions such as: Beyond Space and Time - On the Seventh Continent,  (2025), curated by António Olaio and Paulo Mendes, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra; TheSpaceInYourHead (2025), curated by Eduarda Neves, Galeria Dínamo, Porto; Portugal – Year Zero: photography books of the revolution, curated by José Neves, Luís Pinto Nunes and Susana Lourenço Marques, at Oliva Art Center, São João da Madeira; 13º Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Prize (2023), curated by Samuel Silva and Lígia Afonso, at Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Museum, Amarante; Poste - Video Art (2023), curated by Araújo Mota Texeira, at Extéril, Porto; um corpo, um rio (2021), curated by David Revés, at Galeria Liminare, Lisbon; Anuário'20 (2021), curated by Ana Resende, Andreia Garcia, Melissa Rodrigues, Pedro Augusto e Pedro Magalhães, at Espaço Sede, Porto; CAPITAL WORK # GENERAL STRIKE (2019-2020), curated by Paulo Mendes, at Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira; among others.

In 2022, he made the mural painting A Leaf in the Pocket (2022), commissioned by the Serralves Foundation, Porto, within the scope of their project ‘Windows to the World’ and carried out at the Porto Penitentiary Institution (Custóias), Matosinhos.
 

Still in 2022, he performed The outside of the hand, a live streaming reading performance for Interact Magazine #37, org. Luís Lima and Alexandra João Martins. In 2019, he began the street performance Portugal Tour in a Gazebo, that already took place at Festa das Cruzes (Barcelos), Bons Sons (Cem Soldos) and Noite Branca (Braga).

He also dedicates himself to publishing and artist books. Highlight for the artist edition N.O.R.W.A.Y. (2023), Museu do Porto, and for the publications The home fires (2022) and A Garden at Night (2020), Rampa Editions.

His work is represented in several public and private collections, such as Contemporary Art Collection from the Portuguese Republic (CACE), MAAT - Fundação EDP, Culturgest - Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Porto City Council, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Museum Collection, Artworks, Esposende City Council and private owners.

Between 2015 and 2016, he was part of the team that curated 11 exhibitions for Galeria Painel (in collaboration with Catarina Real, José Costa and Luís Ramos). A partnership between FBAUP and ISPUP. 


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