Vítor Ribeiro

Vítor Ribeiro was born in Porto in 1957. He attended the drawing, painting and sculpture studios at Ar.Co in Lisbon, where he completed his training in Sculpture in 1985. He has worked regularly as an artist ever since, and currently lives and works in Mafra.

He has held solo exhibitions since 1985. Among the most recent are Árvores Improváveis, at Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon (2019); Florestas Brancas, at Galeria do Espírito Santo, Loulé (2018), and at Galeria São Mamede, Porto (2016); É de Pau É de Pedra, with Álvaro de La Vega, at the library of the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2018); Lugar de Silêncios, at the Mosteiro da Batalha (2016); A Brincar com o Fogo, at Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon (2015); Por Dentro, Por Fora, with Rui Matos, at the Galeria Municipal de Matosinhos (2013); Através do Tempo, at Casa da Cerca, Almada (2008); Das Margens, at Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon (2008); A Minha Casa é uma Árvore, at Cooperativa Árvore, Porto (2003); and Metábole, also at Cooperativa Árvore (1999).

He has taken part regularly in group exhibitions since 1981. Among the most significant are Une Perspective Portugaise de l’Art Contemporain, at the Maison de l’UNESCO, Paris (2000); exhibitions at Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon and Porto; Objetos de Memória, with Rui Matos and Mathias Contzen, at Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon (2004); Três Escultores, at the Museu Alberto Sampaio, Guimarães (2012); Déjeuner sur l’Herbe, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2014); and Cinco Escultores, at the Galeria de Arte do Convento do Espírito Santo, Loulé (2020).

Over the course of his career he has taken part in various sculpture symposia in Portugal and abroad, including the XXVIII International Stone Sculpture Symposium in Iwate, Japan (1991), as well as gatherings held in Porto, Pêro Pinheiro, Aveiro, Alfândega da Fé, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Penafiel, Braga, Vila Nova de Gaia, Matosinhos and Grândola.

His work forms part of public and private collections in Portugal and abroad. He is represented, among other institutions, in the Comissão de Coordenação da Região Norte, the Fundação Mário Soares, the Presidency of the Republic of Uruguay, Iwate Park (Japan), the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito (CAMB) and the PLMJ Collection, as well as in several Portuguese municipal councils.

In 1999 he received the 1st Prize of the Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques / UNESCO.