Gonçalo Cunha de Sá PHOTOGRAPHY

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Passionate Street Photographer roaming the world to bear witness of a time. Faces that tell a tale, faces that address each of us in different ways. In every corner of every country there will be a person with a story. I blur the line that divides photographic genres; portrait, street, advertising. And the one expression that I was fortunate to capture will be addressing a larger audience than just me.

Professional photographer since 1991

BA Honours Photography, Film and Imaging - Napier University, Scotland.

Photographed for main advertising agencies: BBDO, Young & Rubican, McCann Erickson, BAR, Partners, Leo Burnet  

PRESS:

Newspapers: Independente | Correio da Manhã | Diário de Notícias | Público | Expresso

Magazines: GQ | | Visão | LER | Evasões | Rotas & Destinos | Fugas | Máxima Interiores | Casa & Decoração | Estética Viva | Oceanos | Vícios de Golf | Revista Pessoal | Espaço e Design | Atlantis | Frontline | ANA | UP | What ́s in | Magnólia | Cromus Honduras

Managed campaigns and projects to raise awareness on different social issues: Breast Cancer | child care | gender | poverty | senior centres

Organised workshops for marginalized youth with UNICEF and CISV.

Lecturer and tutor at IADE Creative University, Lisbon.

Photography Course Leader at St Julian’s School, Portugal. Photography Tutor at Light House, Lisbon.

Photography Tutor at Escola Património de Sintra, Portugal 

10 BOOKS PUBLISHED: 

Vanguard Visionaries NYC (sold online at artbook.com and amazon.com, and via private distribution to museums: the Serpentine Gallery London, The Tate Musuem, MOMA, LAMOCA, etc)

Heróis do Mar (private edition)

Mulheres Portuguesas (private edition)

International Masters of Photography - Casa Pastorinhos de Fátima

Solidão

Agenda Perpétua - ACEP

INATEL, 75 years

One Life - stories told through photography - Art Takes Miami 

AWARDS 

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY FRANCE, Series, 2025  - Le Pouvoir de l’Instant

LETRALIA, Tierra de Letras, En un Mundo Barbie, 2024

UCCLA, Shortlist Finalist (novel written in Portuguese), 2023

TiFA Official Selection 2022

Shortlist, PX3 Paris, State of the World, 2020

Finalist, Editorial - Travel, One Eyeland, US 2018

Silver Medal, Px3 Paris, 2015

IPA 2015, invited artist (by PX3 Paris)

International Prize Michelangelo - Artists at the Jubilee, Rome - Italy 2015

Prize Castroreale, Italy 2015

Botticelli Prize, Florence - Italy 2015

Invited artist, group exhibition in Times Square, NY 2014 Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art, US 2014

UPI - Of Love and Hate, NY 2013

1001 Artists, Miami 2012

Important Artists of the World, NY 2012 International Master of Photography, NY 2012 Important Artist - Art Takes Miami, Miami 2012

United Photo Industries, 2011 and 2012

PX3, Prix de la Photo, Paris 2009, categories: Portraiture and Free Style AGFA, 1991 and 1988

DN Jovem, 1989 and 1990

Kodak, 1989 | Estoril Tourism Bureau: 1st and 2nd prizes - 1987 to 1990

EXHIBITIONS

2025 - group exhibition - Team Art Gallery - Lisbon, Portugal

2025 - solo exhibition “In a Barbie World” - Fantom Gallery - Berlin

2025 - group exhibition - The Holy Art Gallery - Paris

2025 - group exhibition The Holy Art - Digital Exhibition Art on Loop - Athens

2019 - solo exhibition “Portugal, a balcony to the sea” - Bratislava (sponsored by the Portuguese Embassy) 2018 - group exhibition - Sicily, Italy

2017 - solo exhibition “Pequenas histórias” - Lisbon, Museu Geológico

2017 - Paratíssima - Lisbon

2017 - solo exhibition “The Canvas of God” - Gallery Vera Soares Branco - Portugal

2017 - group exhibition “Aequilibria” - Lisbon City Hall

2017 - group exhibition - Glo’Art, Flanders

2016 - Padua’s Art Fair - Italy - represented by Galeria Spazio Surreal

2016 - summer group exhibition at Kunstraum Popup 58 Ringstrassen Galerien - Vienna, Austria 2016 2016- solo exhibition “Portugal, uma terra de mar” - Milan, Italy

2016 - group exhibition “Paratíssima Lisboa 2016” - Lisbon, Portugal

2016 - group exhibition at Global Art Corporation, Flanders

2016 - group exhibition, “Galeria Spazio Surreale” - São Paulo, Brazil

2016 - group exhibition, Galery “Thurnhofer - der Kunstraum”- Vienna, Austria

2016 - group exhibition, Vittoria - Italy

2015 - group exhibition, Vittoria - Italy

2015 - Padua’s Art Fair - Italy - represented by Galeria La Principina

2015 - Art Expo NYC, presented by ArtPlatform NYC - Visionary Artists

2015 - Art BASEL Miami, presented by ArtPlatform NYC - Visionary Artists

2015 - group exhibition “Heroes of the sea”, Galery “Thurnhofer - der Kunstraum” - Vienna, Austria 2015 - group exhibition at San Vicenzo Ferreri, Sicily - Italy

2015 - group exhibition at Castroreale - Italy

2015 - group exhibition “Portraits” at “A Pequena Galeria” - Portugal

2015 - group exhibition at Galeria Traço - Portugal

2014 - group exhibition in Times Square, NY (projection on building)

2014 - solo exhibition "Heroes of the sea" - Casino Figueira, Portugal

2014 - group exhibition at Galeria Traço, Portugal

2014 - group exhibition at "A Pequena Galeria", Portugal

2013 - group exhibition "Of Love and Hate" - New York, US

2013 - solo exhibition "Mulheres Portuguesas" at Galeria Biblioteca Municipal Ovar, Portugal

2013 - solo display "Breast Cancer - Live to Tell" at Culturgest, sponsored by Caixa Geral de Depósitos

(Main Portuguese Bank), Portugal

2012 - group exhibition "Art Takes Miami" - Miami, US

2012 - solo exhibition "Mon Oncle", Cáceres - Spain

2011 - group display at "Feira do Livro Algarve"

2010 to 14 - Solo touring exhibition "Mulheres Portuguesas" (various galleries and municipal libraries, main train stations in Portugal, 3 months participation in television program SIC - "Mundo das Mulheres"; managed press conferences and speeches)

2010 - group exhibition Modern and Contemporary Art at "Palácio do Correio Velho", Portugal

2009 - group exhibition "Prix de la Photo", Paris

2009 - solo exhibition “Vai onde os teus passos te levarem” at Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

2009 - solo exhibition “Zaon bistari bistari” at Lisbon City Hall - Library Orlando Ribeiro

2008 - solo exhibition "Himalayas" at Galeria Biblioteca Municipal Lisboa, Portugal

2008 - solo exhibition "Cheirar o Incenso" at Galeria Santa Clara, Portugal

2008 - solo exhibition "Vai onde os teus passos te levarem" at Galeria Chapito, Portugal

2007 - group exhibition "100 years of Photography" at Galeria IF, Portugal

2006 - solo exhibition "Memoirs" at Museu da Imagem, Portugal

2006 - group exhibition at Portuguese Centre of Photography - CPF

2006 - solo exhibition “Acrílicos” at Livraria Almedina, Portugal

2005 - group exhibition at Portuguese Centre of Photography - CPF, New Talents

2005 - solo exhibition "Body Talks" at Museu Vila do Conde, Portugal

2005 - solo exhibition “Este é o galardám que meu amores me deram”, Quinta das Lágrimas, Portugal

2005 - solo exhibition “Este é o galardám que meu amores me deram”, Torres Vedras Town Hall - Municipal Library, Portugal

2004 - solo exhibition/private display "Falas de Corpo" at gallery Mercês 90, Portugal - Portugal

2001 - group exhibition at "Bienal Vila Franca de Xira", Portugal

2000 - group exhibition at English Speaking Union, Edinburgh, UK

1999 - group exhibition "Napier University", Edinburgh, UK

1998 - group exhibition "Napier University", Edinburgh, UK

1993 - group exhibition at "Forum Picoas", Portugal

1991 to 1994 - group exhibitions at "Tourism Bureau Costa do Sol", Portugal

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