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Jorge Manuel do Carmo Pereira de Almeida was born in 1958 in Lisbon and attended the Ar.Co Painting Course.

“Architectural, graphic, and symbolic, can be used to describe the artist’s pictorial imagination” – this is how his most recent works were defined by “Arte Ibérica” magazine.

In 1986 he won the first prize in "Primeira Mostra Ibero-americana de Jovens Autores", in 2000 he was awarded the Mention of Honour by the I Painting Biannual Domingos Sequeira and, in 2007, the First Prize of the Portuguese Association for Institutional Comunication.

He is the author of several Urban Installations, namely for the Lisbon Municipal Council, situated in the Bairro Alto, for the Braga Municipal Council and for the EPAL Water Museum.

Several of his Prints have been published by the Centro Português de Serigrafia, he has illustrated several Books and developed Posters for the GLRP and the Centro Cultural de Belém, having also established regular collaboration with several national and international Museums.

Exhibiting since 1985, he has participated in dozens of Exhibitions and Conferences both in Portugal and abroad.
Present in the collections of several Foundations and Museums, he is mentioned in the“50 Anos de Pintura em Portugal”, published in 2000 and “Pintura em Portugal 2001”, published in 2002, both works published by Univer- sitária Editora.

In 2004, Produtora Mandala published a DVD with his most recent work.

Currently he is Consultant for the EUROPEAN MUSEUM FORUM (Portugal) and Consultant for International Projects for APOREM, an association of 17 Portuguese Museums.

Since January 2007, he has accepted responsibilities in the Museum of Water of Coimbra, as director of the Cultural and Contents Department.