Amadeo Carvalho Cape Verde, b. 1985
Amadeo Carvalho is a contemporary visual artist whose practice unfolds across painting, poetry, and photography. He is currently based in London, following a steadily ascending trajectory that has led him to exhibit and collaborate internationally. His exhibition career began in 2022 with a solo show at the W Hotel in London, and since then his work has been presented in a range of artistic contexts, including the Centro Cultural do Mindelo (Cape Verde), the Cape Verde Cultural Centre in Lisbon, the São Tomé and Príncipe Art Biennial, and several artist residencies in Cape Verde, São Tomé, and Portugal.
Carvalho’s work draws upon his Cape Verdean heritage to explore themes such as memory, Black identity, familial ties, and the central role of Black women in the construction of both social and affective fabrics.
His visual language is characterised by a deliberate interplay between pictorial gesture and written word, between the intimate and the political, and between personal photographic archives and material experimentation.
