Born in 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal
Lives and works in Estoril, Portugal

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2020 – Pilar Corrias (Viewing Room) Julião Sarmento Photographs, Online
2020 – Museu de Aveiro / Santa Joana Julião Sarmento No brilho da pele, curated by Joana Valsassina, Aveiro, Portugal,
2020 – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado Fragmentos da Viagem na obra de Julião Sarmento A Viagem, curated by Maria João Castro, Lisbon, Portugal
2020 – MNAA Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga – Sala do Tecto Pintado Sarmento A linha que fecha também abre, curated by João Pinharanda, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 – CCA Books Julião Sarmento Books, curated by Nobuo Nakamura, Hyogo, Japan
2019 – King’s College Utopia 9th UK Portuguese Film Festival, curated by Érica Faleiro Rodrigues and Bruno Marques, London, UK
2019 – Carolina Nitsch Project Room Julião Sarmento Undisclosed, New York, USA
2019 – Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt Sarmento A Perfect Home, Madrid, Spain
2018 – Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Julião Sarmento Reel Time, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 – Mixografia Julião Sarmento LA Prints, Los Angeles, California, USA
2018 – Fundação Carmona e Costa Julião Sarmento Timeline, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 – CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo Julião Sarmento Without, curated by David Barro, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2018 – CIAJG Centro Internacional das artes José de Guimarães Julião Sarmento Leopard in a Cage – Projectos Inéditos, Guimarães, Portugal
2017 – Artissima (Sezione Disegni – Booth Giorgio Persano), Turin, Italy
2017 – Galería Joan Prats Julião Sarmento Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye (part 3), Barcelona, Spain
2016 – Collectorspace Alientos from the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 – MSU Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti Julião Sarmento As Good As It Gets, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 – Galerije umjetnina, Galije Kula and Palaco Milesi Julião Sarmento As Good As It Gets, Split, Croatia
2016 – Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian Julião Sarmento The Real Thing / La chose, même, Paris, France
2015 – Laboratório de Curadoria #2, Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra Julião Sarmento Doppelgänger, (folha de sala), curated by Turma de Estudos Curatoriais, Coimbra, Portugal
2015 – CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Julião Sarmento Guest or Host?, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain,
2015 – Galpão Fortes Vilaça Julião Sarmento Easy, Fractals & Star Map, São Paulo, Brazil
2015 – CAPC Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (Espaço Sereia) Julião Sarmento shadow pieces on Body frames, Coimbra, Portugal
2015 – Galerie Daniel Templon Julião Sarmento Easy Pairings Fractals Stars, Brusells, Belgium
2014 – MAMAC Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain Julião Sarmento, Nice, France
2014 – GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Julião Sarmento Lo Sguardo Selettivo, Turin, Italy
2014 – Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2013 – Árvore – Cooperativa de Actividades Artísticas Julião Sarmento Parousia, curated by Bruno Marchand, Nice, France
2013 – Ermida Nossa Sra. da Conceição, Belém Julião Sarmento Fado, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 – Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 – Pilar Corrias, Julião Sarmento 75 Photographs, 35 Women, 42 Years, London, UK
2013 – MACG Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Una Forma Extrema de Privacidad Julião Sarmento, México City, Mexico
2012 – Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea Julião Sarmento Noites Brancas – Retrospectiva / White Nights – A Retrospective, curated by João Fernandes and James Lingwood, Porto, Portugal
2012 – Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
2012 – Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2012 – “Le Studiolo”, Galerie de France, Paris, France
2011 – Museu da Electricidade – Cinzeiro 8 Julião Sarmento What Makes a Writer Great, curated by João Pinharanda, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 – Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 – Parrish Art Museum, curated by Terrie Sultan, Southampton, USA
2011 – Vieira da Silva Julião Sarmento 62 Fotografias, 31 Mulheres, 42 Anos, Fundação Arpad Szenes, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 – Julião Sarmento Monograph Room – Solo Display of Works in the Tate Modern Collection, Curated by Vicente Todolí and Kyla McDonald, Tate Modern, London, UK
2010 – The Real Thing, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2009 – Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
2008 – Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
2008 – Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2006 – Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
2006 – Galería Joan Prats, Barcellona, Spain
2004 – CAV – Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
2004 – Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2003 – Parasite, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
2002 – Parque Ibirapuera, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo Iconografias Metropolitanas Pornstar, São Paulo, Brazil
2002 – Museu do Chiado – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2000 – Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1999 – Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
1999 – Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1998 – Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
1997 – Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
1998 – Julião Sarmento Werke 1981 – 1996, Haus der Kunst, curated by Hubertus Gaßner, Munich, Germany
1997 – CCA Kitakyushu – Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
1997 – 47. Venice Biennale, Julião Sarmento Casanova, curated by Alexandre Melo, Palazzo Vendramini ai Carmini, Portuguese Pavillion, Venice, Italy
1996 – Two Rooms, Van Abbemuseum (Entr’acte), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1995 – Only a moment or two of brutal madness, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
1995 – Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal
1994 – Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
1994 – IVAM, Centre del Carme, curated by Vicente Todolí, Valencia, Spain
1993 – ARCO, Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro, Portugal
1992 – Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
1991 – Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991 – Louver Gallery, New York, USA
1991 – Fundación Luis Cernuda, Sevilla, Spain
1990 – Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
1989 – Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
1988 – Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
1987 – Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
1986 – Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
1986 – Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1985 – Galeria Cómicos, Lisbon, Portugal
1983 – Quadrum Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal
1982 – Gangurinn Julião Sarmento Drawings, Reykjavík, Iceland
1980 – STUDIO Galerije Suvremene Umjetnosti, Galerije Grada Zagreba Julião Sarmento, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
1979 – Galeria CAPC Círculo de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal
1979 – Erika + Otto Friedrich: Räume für Ausstellungen und Aktionen Julião Sarmento Reading Pieces, Bern, Switzerland
1976 – Galeria de Arte Moderna, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2020 – Exposures #3 Las manos, Galería Joan Prats, Spain, Online
2020 – Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2020 – CAV Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
2020 – Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel Paper Don’t Lie, Artsy, Online
2020 – Museu Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Amarante, Portugal
2020 – Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 – Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 – Galeria de Arte do Teatro Municipal, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 – Expanded – Carsten Höller, Julião Sarmento, Marina Abramovic, First Stone, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Veneice, Italy
2019 – Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
2018 – The Kreeger Museum, Washington, USA
2018 – Unexchangeable, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
2018 – MNAA Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 – Wall to Wall Carpets by Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
2017 – Art at the Turn of the Century: A Selection of Works Acquired In the Past Two Decades, curated by Benjamin Weil, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
2017 – Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 – Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 – Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 – MNAC Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 – MAAT Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 – Centro de Artes, Sines, Portugal
2015 – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2014 – Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
2014 – CGAG Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea 93, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2012 – Kulturhuset Supertemporal – International Videoart Today, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 – Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2011 – IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
2010 – Hammer Museum Outside, Los Angeles, USA
2010 – Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 – Mental Drawings, Monica Bonvicini, Teresita Fernandez, Carlos Garaicoa, Mona Hatoun, Roni Horn, Marc Quinn, Julião Sarmento, Rosemarie Trockel, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2008 – MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
2007 – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 – Sean Kelly Gallery Pure, New York, USA
2007 – Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
2006 – Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
2003 – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2002 – Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2001 – Terrae Motus Terrae Motus, La Reggia di Caserta, Caserta, Italy
2000 – Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent, Belgium
1999 – Circa 1968, Curated by João Fernandes and Vicente Todolí, Museu Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
1997 – 47. Venice Biennale, Padiglione Portoghese, Palazzo Vendramin ai Carmini, Venice, Italy
1997 – Palacio Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1995 – Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1994 – Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London, UK