João Francisco Vilhena was born in Lisbon.
He has collaborated with various Portuguese and international publications as a photographic editor and art director.
He is a photographer and visual artist, working with images, words, and music.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
OCT 2021 Theater of Images: Cruzeiro Seixas – the poetics of deception, solo exhibition, Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos.
OCT 2021 Cloud Diary: Photography and Video, poems by João Paulo Cotrim, Fólio, Óbidos.
AUG 2021 Love Kills, solo exhibition, Casa dos Crivos, Braga.
JUL 2021 Theater of Images: Cruzeiro Seixas – the poetics of deception, solo exhibition, Cisterna, Colégio do Espírito Santo, University of Évora.
JUN 2021 Portraits included in the group exhibition Lisbon Green Capital 2020, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon.
DEC 2020 Theater of Images: Cruzeiro Seixas – the poetics of deception, solo exhibition, Casa da Cultura and Galeria Casa da Avenida, Setúbal.
OCT 2020 Illustrated Illustrators – 20 years later, solo exhibition, Lapso Galeria, Festa da Ilustração, Setúbal.
SEP 2020 Love Kills, solo exhibition and sound installation, Cooperativa de Comunicação e Cultura, Torres Vedras.
JAN 2019 Love Kills, solo exhibition, Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos.
NOV 2018 The Melancholy of Words, commemorative edition of the 20th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Centro Português de Serigrafia, Lisbon.
NOV 2017 Persona, solo exhibition, Museu da Imagem, Braga.
OCT 2017 Stone Stories, solo exhibition, Museu do Côa, Vila Nova de Foz Côa.
NOV 2016 Lanzarote: Saramago’s Window, solo exhibition, Teatro Español de Madrid, Spain.
OCT 2016 Canary Islands, the synthesis of elements, solo exhibition, Canárias space at Centro Cultural de Belém.
JUL 2016 White Evil, solo exhibition, Casa dos Crivos, Braga.
MAY 2016 The Melancholy of Shadows, solo exhibition
