Jo㯠do Carmo was born in Lisbon the 9th of February, 1953 1971- School of Decorative Arts Ant󮩯 Arroio, Painting Course 1973/74 - Montreal-Canada, works in the atelier of the painter Enzo Antonacci 1975/79-Works in architecture (interiors), graphical design and illustration. 1979-1985- Superior studies in Painting by the College of Belas-Artes of Lisbon 1985- Portuguese Representation/expo in the 1st European Days of Art Schools, Toulouse ? France 1979-1993- Exhibitions with some regularity in individual and collective samples 1994-2001- Leaves to paint and to divulge its workmanship 2001-2003- Returns to painting and drawing. Completes eighteen pictures series: Scenarios ? theaters of the form 2004- Solo exhibition at 65A Gallery in Lisbon - Professor of Visual Education and Ceramic. - Director of the Department of Arts in the Almirante Gago Coutinho School in Lisbon (1980). - Creates his personal page in the NET in February of 2003: Amphora Letters & Colors (Painting and Poetry) (HTTP://www.joaodocarmo.no.sapo.pt). - Bibliography Dictionary of Portuguese Painters and Sculptors- Dr.Fernando Pamplona from the National Academy of Fine-Arts. 2nd. edition, Civiliza磯 Editora, 1987. Arte Iberoamericano Contemporᮥo - Maria Elena Troncoso e Ricardo Lescano Grosso. 1st.edition, AT cultura, Cordoba, Argentina, 2004.