Amadeo Carvalho Cape Verde, b. 1985

Amadeo Carvalho is a contemporary visual artist based in London. His practice, which moves between painting, poetry, and photography, has been developing along a coherent international path, placing his work in dialogue with diverse audiences and cultural contexts.

Rooted in Cape Verdean heritage and the multiple geographies of the Black diaspora, his work seeks to map affections, silences, and presences — above all those of Black women, whose strength and centrality have shaped the family and social structures they inhabit. His creative process involves a wide variety of media — including charcoal, screen printing, acrylic, volcanic pigments, handmade paper, transfers, and hand-drawn graphic elements — resulting in richly layered and tactile compositions.

His practice emerges from the desire to listen to the echo of memories that traverse bodies, territories, and times. It seeks to build meeting spaces where the visual gesture also becomes a gesture of care and repair.

His compositions — made up of layers, textures, and fragments — are sensory and poetic cartographies. Each work is a field of relation between the visible and the invisible, between the intimate and the collective, where image and word come together to propose new forms of memory, belonging, and imagination.

His works are included in institutional collections such as those of the Ministry of Finance of Cape Verde, the Municipality of Loulé, the CACAU Museum in São Tomé, and the Mundu Nobu Association, as well as in several private collections. In 2025, he was commissioned to create a piece for Dino d’Santiago’s opera, presented at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. His career was recognised by Bantumen’s Powerlist100 (2024), which highlights influential Black figures across the Portuguese-speaking world.