João Onofre was born in Lisbon in 1976, where he lives and works. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, earned an MA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London (1999), and holds a PhD in Contemporary Art from the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra (2018). In 2022 he was awarded the University of Lisbon /CGD Prize in the Arts.
Onofre took part in numerous international group exhibitions, amongst them, most notably: Plateau of Humankind – The 49th Venice Biennale, Human Interest at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Performing Bodies, Tate Modern, London;Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt; Video, An Art, A History 1965-2005 New Media collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Sydney – Contemporary Art Museum; Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona; Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan; Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Punk. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, CA2M, Atrium, Vitoria-Gasteiz; and MACBA, Barcelona.
His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide such as: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou – MNAM/CCI, Paris; The Weltkunst Foundation, Zurich; La Caixa, Barcelona; MACS – Museu de Serralves, Porto; CAM – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon; GAM – Galeria D’Arte moderna e contemporânea, Turin; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Centre National des Arts Plastiques- Ministère Culture, Paris.
