José Augusto Castro

José Augusto Castro holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP). He complemented his training with a workshop in Lithography and Engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts de Liège, in Belgium, and combines his artistic practice with the teaching of Painting.

His exhibition career extends from the 1990s onwards, with numerous solo and group presentations in Portugal and abroad. His solo shows include If you see something draw something, at the Galeria Artes Solar de Santo António in Porto, in 2014, and Another Domestic Day and Peace of Cake, at Miguel Justino Contemporary Art in Lisbon, in 2015. In 2017, he presented a group of assemblages in the exhibition Los Cohibas Se Han Ido, at Galeria Cinco, in the Cidadela Art District in Cascais.

These were followed by I put the sky elsewhere, at Galeria SBN in Porto, in 2019, and As far as forever is, at the Centro Cultural de Cascais, in 2020. In 2023, he presented We leave and return our whole lives, at the Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira.

Among group exhibitions, he took part in Périplos / Arte Português de Hoje, at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, and in the Imago Mundi project of the Fondazione Benetton, both in 2016. His career also includes the Copenhagen Art Fair, in 2014, and several editions of the Vila Nova de Gaia International Art Biennial. He was a guest artist in the first two editions of that biennial, in 2015 and 2017, as well as in the 1st Trás-os-Montes International Biennial, in 2022, and the 7th Espinho International Biennial, in 2023.

His work is represented in collections and holdings in Portugal and abroad, among them the Luciano Benetton Collection, the NYU Langone Art Program and Collection in New York, the Fundação da Juventude in Porto, and the Centro Cultural de Cascais. It is also part of the municipal holdings of Vila Nova de Gaia, Maia, Matosinhos and Santa Maria da Feira.