Born in 1978 in Loulé (Portugal), Ricardo Valentim lives and works in New York (USA). He is a visual artist known for his films and conferences, although he also works with media such as radio, printed matter, photography and sculpture.
Valemtim was a contributor to the book ‘Das erziehungsbild. Zur visuellen kultur des pädagogischen’ (The Education Panorama. For a Visual Culture of Education), published by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. He is the author of “Activity”, a publication carried out in collaboration with Pedro Barateiro, which features the dialogues and collaborative work he has undertaken with various artists for three years on topics such as collaboration, responsibility and democracy.
He was awarded the Visual Art 2010 prize by the Rema Hort Mann Foundation of New York, and in February 2011 he won the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Heineken Prize awarded in Madrid (Spain).
Links of interest
Images of the work of Ricardo Valentim at the Pedro Cera Gallery