Nuno de Campos
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Nuno de Campos is a Portuguese
Portugal
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 painter
Painting
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, living in New York City
New York City
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, United States
United States
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Life and work

Nuno de Campos was born in Porto
Porto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...

, Portugal
Portugal
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His paintings are done in tempera
Tempera
Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium . Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st centuries AD still exist...

, and are known for their luminous quality. He lives and works in New York City
New York City
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Selected exhibitions

  • 2001 Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, Ma.
  • 2004 Private Lives - Westby Gallery, Rowan University, NJ (Lisa Hatchadoorian, curator)
  • 2005 Desenhar discurso: digressões sobre uma urbanidade disruptiva - Bienal de Cerveira, Portugal (Miguel von Haffe Pérez, curator)
  • 2005 Extended Painting - Prague Biennale 2 , Praga, República Checa (Helena Kontova, Giancarlo Politi curators)
  • 2005 Segunda Língua - Reitoria da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal (Miguel Amado, curator)
  • 2005 Bichos Nossos, Nossos Bichos - Arte Contempo, Lisbon Portugal (Miguel Amado, curator)
  • 2006 The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition - National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

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