Valéria Martins, a Portuguese artist, lives in Brussels, Belgium.
She completed the Professional Photography Course at the Portuguese Institute of Photography. She did an internship at Time Out Porto magazine and it was on this same journey, that she developed more authorial projects combining photography, cinema, and performance.
She took part in the group exhibition "Crises" at Porto Femme - International Film Festival (2021) and collaborated in the project "O Douro dos Fotógrafos" with the group exhibition "Dupla Exposição" (2023) at the museum Casa da Imagem. It has received funding from the Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth, and the National Culture Center to present her first solo installation “Bas-Bleu” (2022) at the cultural and independent art space Ermo do Caos, in Porto.
She recently graduated in Visual Arts - Photography from the Escola Superior Artística do Porto and started her Master of Arts (MA) at Luca School of Arts.
CONTACTS
valeriamacedomartins@gmail.com
(+351) 918 077 126
(+351) 918 077 126
(+32) 492 98 09 48
Studies
2024 - ongoing
MA, Arts
Luca School of Arts, BE
2020-2023
BA, Visual Arts - Photography,
Escola Superior Artística do Porto, PT
2017-2019
Professional Photography Course,
Instituto Português de Fotografia, PT
Programs & More
2024
Participant in the Workshop From I to You, from WE to US by Roberta Miss
Luca School of Arts, Brussels, BE
2023-2024
Credited Research Internship
Archive and Mediation: from Teófilo's Douro to Contemporary Artistic Practice, Porto, PT
2024
Participant in the Sekoia Artistic Residency - Performing Arts
Artist Residency, Artists' Shelter with the support of Sekoia- Performing Arts, Porto, PT
2021-2023
Participant of the collective PING!
Gallery Incursion Program, Galeria Municipal do Porto, PT
2023
Participant in the artistic residency- O Douro dos Fotógrafos
Casa da Imagem, Vila Nova de Gaia, PT
2023
Participant of the program Erasmus+ | Blended Intensive Programmes
Performing in Public Spaces, Girona, ES
2021
Participant of the seminar - Rerouting Capital w/ Erica Love & João Enxuto
Escola Superior Artística do Porto, PT
2019
Participant of the program Erasmus+ | Youth Exchange "Shoot!"
Connected for Future, Lozen, BG
Exhibitions and presentations
2024
Mostra Nacional Jovens Criadores
collective exhibit
Museu de Lamas, Santa Maria da Feira, PT
2024
The Future is Ours, Ideas Festival
collective exhibit
Full Circle Brussels, BE
2023
Árvore das Virtudes 2023 3rd Edition
collective exhibit
ÁRVORE, Porto, PT2023
Dupla Exposição
collective exhibit
Casa da Imagem, Vila Nova de Gaia, PT
2022
Bas-Bleu
presentation
Ermo do Caos, Porto, PT
2021
Crises
collective exhibit
Galeria de Exposições Tinturaria, Covilhã
Casa das Associações, Porto, PT