Jose Maurício Saldanha Alvarez Saldanha-Alvarez

I was born in 1948 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From a very young age, I drew on any sheet of paper or surface I could find. By the age of 16, I was earning money from my art. My body of work, in my Portfólio-Gallery, begins with a painting from 1966. Since then, I have ventured into watercolor and mastered oil painting and drawing techniques. As I traveled the world, I created countless drawings and paintings of the places I visited. From 1997 to 1999, I lived in Lisbon, Portugal, sketching countless corners of that beautiful country. Fascinated by France, I produced drawings and poems depicting numerous cities, resulting in three major consecutive exhibitions between 2008 and 2010.

Salons Fluminense Salon of Arts, from1968 to 1970. Niterói, RJ, Brazil. National Salon of Arts, Rio de Janeiro, 1973 -1979. Colective Exibitions “Bloias Frias”, Maurício Alvarez and Merlin Currie,The CornerstoneSt.Johns Church, Edinburgh, Scotland,1983.International Amnesty. Individual Exibitions. Images of the Real, ETI Arts,Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, 1977. Drawings. Pascoal Carlos Magno Cultural Center, Icaraí, Niterói, 1982. Painting of Sun and Salt. Ingá Palace, Niterói, 1994. Carnets de Voyage, Gallerie 52, Alliance Francaise, Icaraí Niteroi, 2005, Carnet de Voyage II, France in Text and Image. Gallerie 52, Alliance Française, Icaraí, Niterói. 2008. France in poems and drawings, Galeão International Airport, 2010.

He holds a degree in Painting from the National School of Fine Arts (UFRJ, 1977) and a degree in History from the Fluminense Federal University (1978); he earned a doctorate in History in 2000 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Social Communication in Coimbra, Portugal.