Daniel Barroca

Daniel Barroca was born in Lisbon, in 1976. He studied Visual Arts at the Escola de Arte e Design das Caldas da Rainha from 1996 to 2001 and attended the individual programme of Ar.Co in 2002. He was an artist-in-residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in 2008, thanks to a João Hogan Grant from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in 2010 and 2011. From 2013 to 2014, he took part in the Home Works Program of Ashkal Alwan, in Beirut, and in the Open Sessions of the Drawing Center, in New York. From 2014 the 2015, he held a grant from Fundación Botín. His work has been shown at the Hunter College Art Galleries, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação EDP, MACE, Hangar, DeLaCharge, Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Fundação Botin, NCCA, CIAJG and Museu de Serralves, among others.

His most important solo exhibitions are: “Refusal of the image” (curated by Tatiana Mouarbes) at the Hunter College Art Galleries, New York (2015); “Circular Body” (curated by Laure de Selys), De La Charge, Brussels (2015) and “Riot _ Motim” at Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2011). He took part in several group shows: “The Brain Loves the Brain”, MADC, 2017, San Jose, California; “THEM OR US!”, Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2017, Porto (curated by Paulo Mendes) and “The New Normal”, at The Hangar, Umam & Dawawine, 2017, Beirut (curated by Murat Adash and Iba Farhat). In 2016, he began his PhD studies in Anthropology at the University of Florida, USA, as the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship.