Born in Lisbon, Portugal. Worked in Estoril, Portugal.
One of the most important artists of his generation, Sarmento exhibited extensively since the 1970s. Julião Sarmento drew upon themes of memory, sexuality, transgression, morality, and duality. He worked across different mediums (painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, performance, and film) to deploy a concise vocabulary of images.
Sarmento studied Painting and Architecture at Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Lisbon where he received his MA in 1974. The richness and complexity of Sarmento’s work lies in its system of free-floating signifiers which migrate between works and across the boundaries of medium. The use or recurring motifs such as hand gestures, parts of bodies and architectural floor plans generate a free-play of unsettling associations that refuse to settleinto meaning.

Pilar Corrias

Venice Biennial

Venice

Sao Paolo Biennial

São Paulo

Documenta

Kassel

Biennale de Paris

Paris

London

Munich

Galerie Kluser

New York City

Sean Kelly

Lisbon

Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv

Dvir Gallery

Rome

Alessandra Bonomo

Milan

Mimmo Scognamiglio

New Galerie

Raffaella Cortese

Turin

Giorgio Persano

Galeria Estação

Lisson Gallery

Gladstone Gallery

Galeria Camargo Vilaca

Mexico City

Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe

Santa Monica

Ruth Bloom Gallery

Carolina Nitsch

Brussels

Templon

Madrid

Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt

Ponta Delgada

Galeria Fonseca Macedo

Galerie Daniel Templon

Galerie De France

Xavier Hufkens

Galeria Luisa Strina

Louver Gallery

Galerie Montenay

Galería Juana De Aizpuru

Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Washington

The Kreeger Museum

Wiels - Contemporary Art Center

Caramulo

Museu Do Caramulo

Athens

Georgia Art Museum

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian

San Francisco

Yerba Buena Center For The Arts

Cáceres

Museo De Arte Contemporáneo Helga De Alvear

Los Angeles

Hammer Museum

Porto

Serralves Museum

Museu De Arte Moderna De Sao Paulo

Portland

Portland Art Museum

Lagos

Centro Cultural De Lagos

Badajoz

Meiac - Museo Extremeño E Iberoamericano De Arte Contemporáneo

Dallas

Dallas Museum of Art

The New York Public Library

León de Los Aldama

Musac - Museo De Arte Contemporáneo De Castilla

Bilbao

Guggenheim Bilbao

Moscow

National Centre For Contemporary Arts

Santander

Fundacion Marcelino Botin

Center For Contemporary Art - Tel Aviv

Neuss

Langen Foundation

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Sfmoma)

Eindhoven

Van Abbemuseum

Rio de Janeiro

Paco Imperial

Kraichtal

Ursula Blickle Stiftung

Kunstverein München

Barcelona

Galeria Joan Prats

Oxford

Modern Art Oxford

Caixa Forum

Palacio De Velazquez

Innsbruck

Kunstraum Innsbruck

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Hayward Gallery

Dublin

Imma - Irish Museum of Modern Art

Centre Pompidou

Berlin

Gropius Bau

Haus Der Kunst

Grand Palais

Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurter Kunstverein

Fundacio Juan Miro

Heidelberg

Bonner Kunstverein

Mixografia

Galpão

Ohio

Contemporary Arts Center

La Casa Encendida - Fundación Montemadrid

Tate Modern

Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía

Valencia

Instituto Valencia De Arte Moderno - Ivam

Málaga

Museo De Bellas Artes De Malaga

Juliao Sarmento

Amarillo Luminoso

Rojo Carruajes

Rojo China

Loco furioso (Gray)

Joven barriendo (Carmine)

Tres lavanderas (Black)

Mujer desnuda con espejo (Miami Blue)

La resignación (Green)

Por descubrir el movimiento de la terra (Blue)

Joven estirándose la media (Yellow)

Joven bañándose en una fuente observada por dos viejos (Orange)

Joven en pie, mesándose los cabellos (Red)