About Portuguese photographer André CEPEDA (b.1976, in Coimbra)

André CEPEDA has been showing his work regularly, in Portugal and abroad, since 1999. He has since then made multiple artist residencies and received many commissions. In 2005, he founded Blues Photography Studio in 2005 where he produces work for many photographers, instituitions and gallery’s, printing, scanning and photographing.

Photo books by André CEPEDA

  • 'Anacronia' (2005); 'River' (2009); 'Ontem' (2010); 'Rien' (2012); 'Kanal' (2012); 'Whispering Light' (2013); 'Rien - text book' (2014); 'Rua Stan Getz' (2015); 'Depois' (2016); 'RDHK' (2016); 'Untitled' (2017); 'Ballad of Today' (2020)

read more


For his out-of-print photographic volume 'Ontem' (Portuguese: yesterday), André CEPEDA has studied the lives of the inhabitants of Porto, taking landscapes, interiors and portraits of people who are often hopeless and without perspective.
from 45,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 2000: 'Anacronia', Encontros de Fotografia de Coimbra, Coimbra.
    2001: 'Pontes, lugares e antropologia', Silo-espaço cultural, Portuguese Center of Photography, Porto.
    2002: 'Anacronia', Gallerie Image, Aarhus, Denmark; 'Corpo, tempo, desejo e morte', Galeria Massa, Porto e Vulcão dos Capelinhos, Azores.
    2003: 'Mapa de Intensidades', Oficina, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto.
    2004: 'Viseu', António Henriques Galeria de Arte Contemporânea, Viseu; 'Closer', Galeria +Consigo, Coimbra.
    2005: 'Anacronia', Museu de Imagem, Braga and at Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels; 'Jungle', Espaço Bartolomeu 5, Lisbon.
    2006: 'Stasis', Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon; 'Provas de Trabalho', Projecto Apêndice, Porto; 'Anacronia', KGaleria, Lisbon.
    2008: 'Sem título', Mad Woman in the Attic, Porto; 'Ontem', ZDB Gallery, Lisbon.
    2009: 'River', Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon; Galería AdHoc, Vigo (ES); 'Untitled', The Mews. Project Space, London; 'Project Room', Galeria Reflexus, Porto.
    2010: 'O que o futuro foi,' Mostra de Vídeo, Laboratório das Artes, Guimaraes; 'Untitled', Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto; 'Ontem', Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels; 'BESPhoto Photography Prize', Museum Berardo, CCB, Lisbon.
    2011: CAV-Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra.
    2012: 'Rien', Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon and at Museu do Neo-Realismo, Vila Franca de Xira; 'Ontem', Galery INVALIDEN1, Berlin; 'Canal' (together with Eduardo Matos), Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels.
    2013: 'Explicação da Lâmpada', Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto; 'Sob um sol recto', Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon.
    2014: 'Rien', Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimaraes and at Câmara Escura, Torres Vedras; 'Kanal', Standard Delux, Lausanne.
    2015: 'Untitled', Old School, Lisbon; 'Rien', Kasseler Fotoforum, Kassel (GER).
    2016: 'At the eyes ground', Fridman Gallery, New York; 'Depois', MNAC, Lisbon.
    2017: 'Depois', Benrubi Gallery, New York; 'Cão', Galeria Oliveira, Porto; 'Uma especie de silêncio', CAAA, Guimarães; 'Rasgo,' Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon.
Group exhibitions (a selection)
  • 2000: 'Bruxelles Active', C02 and 'Bruxelles a l’infini', Espace Photographique Contretype, both Brussels.
    2001: 'Memórias da Cidade', Encontros de Imagem, Braga.
    2002: 'Pontes, lugares e antropologia', Cadeia da Relação, Portuguese Center of Photography, Porto.
    2003: 'Pingyao International Photography Festival', China.
    2004: 'Re-produtores de sentido', Arte Sesc, Rio de Janeiro.
    2005: 'Creators of European Photography', Photo Festival Union, Lodz;
    2006: 'Busca-Pólos', Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimaraes and Pavilhão de Portugal, Coimbra; 'CO2', Miedzynarodowe Centrum Kultury, Krakow.
    2007: ''Deslocações: 4 perspectivas contemporâneas portuguesas', Comité Económico e Social Europeu, Brussels.
    2008: 'The Core of Industry', Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia (IT); 'Where are you from? Portuguese Contemporary Art, Faulconer Gallery, USA.
    2009: 'Rescaldo e Ressonância', Reitoria da Universidade do Porto.
    2010: 'Impresiones Y comentários – Fotografia Contemporánea Portuguesa', Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona
    2011: 'Da outra margem do Atlântico – videoarte e fotografia portuguesa', Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
    2012: 'New/Old Life', Galery Blanca Berlin, Madrid
    2013: 'A Arca Invisível', National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon
    2014: 'The New Social', European Photo Exhibition Award, The Nobel Peace Center, Oslo and at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris.
    2015: 'The New Social, European Photo Exhibition Award', House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg; 'The SAAL Process: Architecture and Participation, 1974-1976', CCA, Montreal; 'International Fotobook Festival', Kassel (GER).
    2017: 'Da fuga e do encontro: Inversão do Olhar', Espaço Novo Banco; Lisboa.
    2018: 'Before and After Architecture' (together with Nuno Brandão Costa), Chicago Architecture Biennial, 'Public without rhetoric', La Biennale di Venezia.