Victoria Marques Pinto, born in Oporto, Portugal, 1994, with Spanish and Portuguese nationality, is a multidisciplinary photographer and artist who has lived in Portugal, Spain, England and Austria and currently works between Madrid, Mallorca and London.
Through her mixed-media landscapes, Marques Pinto explores and emphasizes the human impact on the natural world. Creating surreal landscapes by incorporating found objects of plastic into seascapes, the addition of bright and saturated acrylic pigment into pristine untouched landscapes and marring the images of African savannas and its natural wildlife.
The artist’s interventions into traditional landscape compositions create strange new realities - sometimes witty and playful, but always hinting at a greater permanence and perhaps consequence - within her constructed landscapes.
Marques Pinto is represented in the UK by the London based gallery, Black Box Projects.
EDUCATION
2018-2019 | MA Fine Art Photography, Instituto Europeo di Design (IED), Madrid, Spain.
2013-2016 | BA Art, Design and Media with Art History, Richmond International University, London, UK.
2011-2012 | Digital Photography Course, Instituto Português de Fotografia (IPF), Porto, Portugal.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 | Pigmented Touch, Espattio, Madrid, Spain
2021 | Imminent Impressions, CCA, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2021 | Imminent Impressions, Black Box Projects at Cromwell Place, London, UK
2020 | Kalahari Hues, Rhino Home, Porto, Portugal
2019 | Imminent Impressions, Espacio 28014, Madrid, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 I Winter Show, CCA, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2022 | Spring: Forårskuller, CCA, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2021 | Polyptyque , Archipelago and Black Box Projects , Marseille, France
2016 | eleven bookworks, Tenderbooks, London, UK
2016 | She Will Let U In, Asa Briggs Cafe & Atlantic House Art Studio, Richmond University, London, UK
2015 | Going Public, Geddes Gallery, London, UK
2015 | Atlantic House Art Studio, Richmond University, London, UK
2012 | Instituto Português de Fotografia (IPF) Gallery Space, Porto, Portugal
FAIRS & AUCTIONS
2024 | Vol.III, Zoara's Auction, Madrid, Spain
2023 | Solo Show: Lost Paradise, A ppr oc he 7th edition, Black Box Projects, Paris, France
PRESENTATIONS
2021 | Virtual presentation by Moritz Neumuller of Imminent Impressions at Havana Biennale, Cuba
2019 | Presentation of Imminent Impressions project, Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, UK
AWARDS & FEATURES
2022 I Feature in The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice, edited by Moritz Neumüller
2021 | Belfast Photo Festival, shortlisted and highly commended
COLLECTION
Private collections in Spain, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Mexico, Germany, Denmark and the UK.