Manuel Carmo

Who is Manuel Carmo?

Jorge Manuel do Carmo Pereira de Almeida is a Portuguese artist and author.

Having practised as a lawyer, he performed, in earlier years, as a deputy to the Chairmanship of the Council of Ministers during the VII Constitutional Government, as Chairman of the European cooperation NGO Latin American Studies Institute, and as Chairman of the Board in various multinational companies. In the early 1980s, he studied painting at Ar.Co, Lisbon and since then devoted himself exclusively to painting, sculpture and writing. His first exhibition dates from 1985 and he has since been present in many exhibitions and conferences in Portugal and abroad. In 2000 he was awarded the Mention of Honour by the I Painting Biannual Domingos Sequeira and, in 2007, the First Prize of the Portuguese Association for Institutional Communication.