Luís nobre

About Luís

Luís Nobre is a Portuguese postwar & contemporary artist born in 1971. Working in Lisbon he has shown his work at numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) who have featured Luís Nobre's work in the past. His work has been offered at auction multiple times and he is a sought after artist working from Lisbon as well as internationally.

He graduated from ESAD, Caldas da Rainha (PT) in 2001. Attended a PhD in Drawing, FBAUL (PT) 2012-2015.

His latest solo exhibition was From the Other Side, at the Braço Perna Gallery Lisboa , in 2025.

Luis has been exhibiting since 1994, including Seven Artists at the 10th Month1996 and Detour 2013, both at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Portugal.

Exhibitions

2025- From the other side, Braço Perna gallery, Lisbon

2016 -The Axis of The Compass II, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon.

2015 -Drawings, Liebre gallery , Madrid.

2015 - ||()()()()()(), Old Silos, Caldas da Rainha.

2014 - Memento Mori, Geologic Museum. Lisbon.

2014 - Stratigraphy and Other Systems, Kubikulo Project, Porto

2013 -Sector III, Kubik Gallery, Porto.

2012 -Expanded Drawing, Agency Who, Lisbon.

2011 -Cristal, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Lisbon.

2010 -Cause-Effect, Saint Roche Museum, Lisbon.

2009 -Scales, Perspectives and Surfaces, House-Museum Anastacio Gonsalves, Lisbon. (PT)

2009 - Three Steps Forward, Carlos Carvalho (Zoom) Gallery.

2008 -Hold It! Location 1; New York. (U.S.A.)

2007 -Paralelo 36, VPF-Cream Art Gallery; Lisbon,

2007 - Backside, Borderline Agency, Custom Post; Mondorff.

2005 -Plan B, Lagar de Azeite, Oeiras Town Hall; Oeiras,

2005 - Random Border, Leigh Woods; Bristol, (U.K.)

2004 -Through the Distance Between Us, Lisbon City Museum; Lisbon,

2003 -The Invisible Frontier, Atelier / Museum António Duarte; Caldas da Rainha,

2002 -350o (Around), G.L. Box; Oporto,

1998 - Between Heaven and Hell; National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon,

1998 - Eternal Gardens, Paula Fampa Gallery; Braga, (PT)

1997 -Sub.863-874, José Malhoa Museum; Caldas da Rainha

In 2019\18 he was a selected artist for the exhibitions Germinal and From Other Spaces at MAAT and the Galeria Municipal do Porto.

In 2017 he took part in the group show 4 at the Cathedral, at the Idanha a Velha Cathedral Castelo Branco. In 2016 He had his second solo exhibition at the Carlos Carvalho Gallery entitled The Axis of the Compass. In 2015 he held a solo show at the Liebre Gallery in Madrid, and in 2014 he took part in Memento Mori Exhibition at the Lisbon Geological Museum. In the same year, he was part of the 18th Exhibition Programme at Carpe Diem Centro de Arte e Pesquisa in Lisbon.

Highlights in his career include his participation in the artist residency programme at Location One, NYC (USA); and Spike Island, Bristol (UK).

He is represented in various collections in Portugal and elsewhere including Culturgest Lisbon, Fundação Ilidio Pinho Porto and MAAT Lisbon.

luisnobre@luisnobre.net

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