TheSpaceInYourHead

Miguel Ângelo Marques (Guimarães, 1994) is an artist and art educator who lives and works in Porto. He completed his master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design (2023). He founded the School of Unconventional Drawing and is part of the PALMA collective together with the artist Catarina Braga. In painting, he works from a combination of archival sources, fiction and memory, his compositions rewriting canonical images to imagine both a different subject and a different viewer. These themes are represented in a rich color palette, with an attention to light and space that gives the work a psychological depth and narrative, these details lead the viewer beyond the work and activate their own imagination.
He has been exhibiting regularly since 2015, including the group shows Vermelho Vivo, MIS Ceará, Brazil (2025) SINGSONG, Galeria Zé dos Bois Lisbon (2024) Hammer Time, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2023), Drowning Room, Cosmos CAC, Lisbon (2023), O Verdadeiro lado da Manta; a proposal by Sara & André at the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (2022), PREMIERE at the Meymac Arts Center, France (2022) and the solo shows BOLA DE CRISTAL, Galeria Braço Perna 44, Lisbon (2025); Os Algoritmos da Pintura, Centro de Artes das Caldas da Rainha (2021) Resistir a todos os traumas, Galeria Verso Branco, Lisbon (2019); also noteworthy are the artist residencies: Mascaras with Damian Ortega, Centro Botin Santander (2022) and Unravelling the Myth, CAU Cortém (2021).