Carlos Noronha Feio

Carlos Noronha Feio (Lisbon, 1981) lives and works in Oeiras. In his work, Noronha Feio consumes, juxtaposes and performs media as research into cultural, local and global identity, adopting culturally significant images, locations and symbols as a form of creative interference with meaning, demonstrating the almost arbitrary nature in which cultural significance is interpreted. He holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, London.

Selected solo shows include: Não só de oceanos se constrói um corpo feito de água, curated by Ricardo Barbabosa Vicente, Centro de Artes de Águeda, Águeda (2026); An Other World is Possible, Coventry Biennial of Political, Critical, Social Art, Coventry (2025); Milk and Honey, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2024); Arkipélg, curated by Irlando Ferreira, CNAD – National Centre for the Arts, Crafts and Design, Cape Verde (2023); (sunsight!)/(sunclipse!), outside installation, curated by Susanne Prinz, with the support of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Rosa-Luxenburg-Strasse 27 + 28, Berlin (2022); at the end of it all there’s the beginning, the negotiation!, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2021); o peculiar é um detalhe no todo comum, Q22, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra (2021);  Zero/Zero, (with Délio Jasse) Galeria Municipal de Almada, Lisbon (2019); (sunsight!)/(sunclipse!), 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2019); even if at heart we are uncertain of the will to connect, there is a common future ahead, Narrative projects, London (2018); A Matter of Trust, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2017); banhados pela luz brilhante do pôr do sol, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2015); and Oikonomia: A Matter of Trust, MNAC – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon (2015).

Group shows include: Antropoceno: Em busca de um novo humano?, curated by Adelaide Ginga, MACAM, Lisbon (2025); X Biennial of São Tomé and Príncipe, curated by Ricardo Barbosa Vicente and João Carlos Silva, São Tomé and Príncipe (2024); Liberdade, Portugal um lugar de encontro, curated by João Pinharanda, UCCLA – União das Cidades Capitais de Língua Portuguesa, Lisbon (2024); A Revolução na Noite, curated by Ana Anacleto, Centro de Arte Oliva, S. João da Madeira (2023); Armando Martins Art Collection /MACAM,  Mace 15 Anos,  Elvas, Portugal (2022); José Carlos Santana Pinto Art Collection,  Mace 15 Anos,  Elvas, Portugal (2022); Pintura: Campo de Observação Parte II, curated by João Pinharanda, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon (2021); de Dentro e Fora – Colectiva de artistas de Cabo Verde, curated by Ricardo Barbosa Vicente, Centro Cultural de Cabo Verde e União das Cidades Capitais de Língua Portuguesa, Lisbon (2021); Dissonâncias, MNAC, Lisbon (2020); Sonho Europeu: Obras da Coleção Norlinda e José Lima, Centro de Cultura Contemporânea de Castelo Branco (2019); The fabric of felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018); Variations Portugaises, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Meymac (2018); Futures, CAC Vilnius (2017); You Are Now Entering_________, CCA Londonderry/Derry (2012); and Image Wars, Abrons Art Centre, New York (2011). From 2009 up to 2014 he was a director of The Mews Project Space in London’s east end. Noronha Feio’s work is included in the publications “The Art of Not Making: The New Artist/Artisan Relationship” as well as in “Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition”, published by Thames & Hudson.

His work is present in several collections including: Armando Martins Collection, Portugal; MAAT – Fundação de Arte EDP, Portugal; Norlinda e José Lima Collection, Portugal; Saatchi Collection, UK; Fundação PLMJ, Portugal; MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Portugal; MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Brazil; Vasco Santos Collection, Portugal; amongst other national and international private and public collections.

Milk and Honey

at the end of it all there’s the beginning, the negotiation!

(sunsight!)/(sunclipse!)

bathed by the bright light of the sunset

The tearful orchard, Tomás Camillis, October 2024

At the end of it all there’s the beginning, the negotiation!…,Maíra Botelho, July 2021

Délio Jasse and Carlos Noronha Feio – Zero/zero, Bárbara Valentina, January 2020

(sunsight!)/(sunclipse!), by Carlos Noronha Feio, Bárbara Valentina, June 2019