Tereza Seabra

Tereza Seabra, Alcobaça, Portugal, 1944.

Education:
1962-64 Painting Course ESBAL (Lisbon College of Art), Portugal
1969-70 Craft Institute of America, New York
1970-75 Jewellery Course at Art Centre Y, New York with Thomas Gentille. | Working in the studios of Robert Kulicke and Hiroko Swornick. | Assistant to Professor Thomas Gentille.
1975-76 Postgraduate student of Professor Almir Mavigner at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany | Worked in the Gallery-Studio Silbermine of Michael Rheinlander. 

Collections:
Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Collection of Contemporary Art, Lisbon. | Panorarama Films SR.L, Rome.

Professional Activities:
1975 Teacher of Jewellery at Art Centre Y, New York
1978 Founds the Departament of Jewellery at AR.CO (Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, which she heads from 1978 to 2004.
1980-81 Assessor for Goldsmithing to the curating team for the permanent exhibition of Treasures of Portuguese Archeology, for the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Lisbon
1981-83 Artístic director of Leitão & Irmão,Lisbon
1982-83 Researches technique e restoration of Queen Eleanor’s reliquary (15th c.) for the XVII Council of Europe Exhibition of Art, Science & Cultura, Casa dos Bicos, Lisbon
1984 Opens the studio / gallery Artefacto 3, Lisbon
1988 Presentation of contempoary Craft Jewellery for the Portuguese Secretary of State for Culture, Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, Azores
1990 Member of the Executive Committee for the I International Simposium on the Jewel, Lisbon
1991 Curates, for Portugal, Exhibition Configura |Künste in Europa, Erfurt'91, Germany.
1993 Opens the new gallery/studio Artefacto 3, Lisbon, where she works, | Jury member for Portuguese Jewellery,1st J&B.National Competition
1994 Jury member for Portuguese Jewellery,2nd J&B.National Competition.
1998 Jury member for Portuguese Jewellery, Young Creatives 98. | Assumes reponsability for studio / gallery Artefacto 3, taking the name Tereza Seabra • Jóias de Autor.
1999 Curates the exhibition THIS IS A JEWEL• 20 YEARS OF JEWELLERY AT Ar.Co, Fundação Ricardo Espírito Santo, Lisbon
2001 TAVIRA DAYS • ceramics & jewellery workshop directed by Fausto Maria Franchi, Tereza Seabra & António Marques, Palácio da Galeria de Tavira, Algarve, Portugal
2004 Curates the exhibition PONTO DE ENCONTRO / MEETING POINT(S), 25 Anos de Intervenções no Departamento de Joalharia do Ar.Co José de Azeredo Perdigão Centre for Modern Art, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Liisbon
2008 Jury member for Jewellery, Young Creatives 2008, Lisbon
2009 Curates jewellery exhibit of DIANA SILVA & TERESA MILHEIRO, Espaço Arte Tranquilidade, Lisbon | Invited tutor for the Advanced Course in Visual Art, Ar.Co • Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual | Honourary member of PIN (Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea | Member of Klimt02.
Since 2004 has made annual visits to Índia to research and document the rural and tribal jewellery of the country

Individual exhibitions:
1975 GALERIE SILBERMINE, Hamburg, Germany
1985 ANOS 80, (‘the 80s), Museu Nacional do Traje, Lisbon
1988 JEWEL OF THE MONTH, Museu Nacional do Traje, Lisbon
1997 JEWELS FOR ALEXANDER OF MEDICI, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga Lisbon
1999 BIBLIOTECA MUNICIPAL CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN, Ponte de Sôr, Portugal

Group exhibitions (selected):
1975 AARON FABER GALLERY, New York |Represents ART CENTRE Y at Craft Show, New York | Represents Portugal at INTERNATIONALE SCHMUCKSCHAU 1975, Munich | INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY FAIR, BASEL, through Meissner Edition, Basel | Postgraduate exhibition Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg..
1982 DESIGN & CIRCUNSTÂNCIA, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon.
1985 NOVA OURIVESARIA, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. | PROJECTO AQUA, Gabinete de Apoio Técnico, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
1986 MONTEPIO GERAL, Lisbon. | GALERIE MARZEE, Nijmegen, Netherlands. | MANOBRAS DE MAIO, (Manoeuvres of May) fashion show, Lisbon, | HALSSCHMUCK, Galeria Koppel, Hamburg. | JÓIAS PARA A COLECÇÃO OUTONO/INVERNO 86-87(Jewels for the Autumn/Winter Collection) of the designer Maria Manuela Gonçalves, Loja Branca, Lisbon.
1987 TRADIÇÃO E ACTUALIDADE, Museu da Casa Brasileira, S. Paulo, Brazil. | PROJECTO SANTARÉM CAPITAL DO GÓTICO, Forum Centro Cultural Regional de Santarém, Portugal.
1988 PROJECTO ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS, Casa Museu Álvaro de Campos, Tavira, Portugal. | JOAILLERIE CONTEMPORAINE, Banque Générale du Luxemburg, Luxembourg. | A LINGUAGEM DOS NOVOS MATERIAIS, (the Language of New Materials) Antiga Galeria do Rei D. Luís, Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisbon. | USO E ABUSO, Galeria de Arte, VilaMoura, Portugal. | FIC-88, Feira das Indústrias e da Cultura, FIL, Lisbon.
1989 COMBS PROJECT, Provincial Museum GM Kam, Nijmegen. | DESIGN PORTUGUÊS, Portfolio para a I Exposição Mundial de Design 98, Nagoya, Japan.
1990 COMBS PROJECT, Museum Bellerive, Zurich. | COMBS PROJECT, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany | 1ST INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY SYMPOSIUM, Joalharia Contemporânea Portuguesa, The British Council, Lisbon, Portugal.
1991 CONFIGURA 1 - Künste in Europa, Erfurt' 91, Germany. | TRADIÇÃO E QUALIDADE - PORTUGAL L' AVENIR EN PLUS, (Tradition and Quality • Portugal: The Future More) within the scope of Europália, Brussels
1993 NOVOS DESIGNERS, EXPORJÓIA 93, FIL, Lisboa, Portugal. | JOALHARIA CONTEMPORÂNEA, Centro Cultural Malaposta Amascultura, Amadora, Portugal.
1994 DESIGN LISBOA 94, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon | CAL VIVA, FEIRA DE ARTE, Braga, Portugal.
1996 SCHMUCK' 96. Sonderschau der 48. Internationalen Handwerksmesse Munich.
1997 DESIGN PORTUGUÊS / EINE ANTOLOGIE, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt.
1998 MULTIPLES (CULTURES OF THE EAST INDIA), Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, Expo98, Lisboa. |MICROSCULPTURES: RENCONTRE D’ARTISTES ORFÈVRES EUROPÉENS - European Patent Office, Rijswijk, Netherlands
1999 ISTO É UMA JÓIA - 20 ANOS DE JOALHARIA NO AR.CO, Fundação Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva, Lisbon. | MODE PORTUGUAISE RÈVELATION, ICEP, Printemps de la Mode, Paris | NARRATRICI DI GIOIELLO (Narrators of the Jewel), 20 Orafe e Designers di Gioiello Contemporeneo, Marijke Studio Gioello d'autore, Padua, Italy.
2000 AS IDADES DO FUTURO (The Ages of the Future), Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, FIL Parque das Nações, Lisbon | A MODA DO SÉCULO 1900 / 2000, Museu Nacional do Tr.aje, Lisbon PORTUGAL |  “Memória do Futuro, Cultura, Moda, Um Povo" ICEP, Madrid.
2001 CAPUCHOS 2001, within the 21º Festival de Música, Almada, Portugal.
2002 + PORTUGAL POWERED by Moda Lisboa, Barcelona, Espanha.
2004 PONTO DE ENCONTRO/MEETING POINT(S) 25 anos de Intervenções no Departamento de Joalharia do AR.CO- Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon. | MONSARAZ-MUSEU ABERTO, Bienal de Monsaraz, Monsaraz, Portugal.
2004-05 LEVEZA / LIGHTNESS- Reanimar a Filigrana (Reanimating Filligree), travelling exhibition in Portugal and beyond: ESAD Art School, Matosinhos in collaboration with Museu do Ouro, Travassos, Portugal
2005 MAIS PERTO/CLOSER, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Exhibition integrada in the X Simposium ARS ORNATA EUROPEANA, ‘Every Where, No Where’, Lisbon. | DES+GN MAIS, Contemporary Portuguese Design, ICEP-Gallery FLOW, London
2006 QUATRO PONTOS DE CONTACTO ENTRE LISBOA E ROMA/ FOUR POINTS OF CONTACT BETWEEN LISBON AND ROME, Galeria Alternatives, Rome | LOOK FROM WITHIN • ANTIPODE, galeria de arte virtual Antipode, Mi-Mi JEWELLERS Moscow, organized by Cristina Filipe & Pin • Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea.
2007 IMPRESSIONS ON PORTUGUESE CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY, LandskronSchneidzik Galerie, Nuremberg. | GOLD FAIR 2007, Portugal invited country, Berlin | AS JÓIAS DO AR.CO (The Jewels of Ar.Co), Portuguese Presidency of the European Union Centro Cultural Português, Rabat, Morroco
2008 PIN SELECTION within the ambit of 10 years of Reverso, Galeria Reverso, Lisbon. | QUEL AIR CLAIR Works from the 35 years of the Ar.Co collection (1973-2008), Palácio Galveias & Museu da Cidade (Pavilhão Preto), Lisbon | JÓIAS REIAS(Royal Jewels) travelling exhibition Commemorating the migration of King João VI and his Court to Rio de Janeiro Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Palácio Nacional da Ajuda Lisbon; Berlin.
2009 GRUPPO DI FAMIGLIA IN UN INTERNO, Istituto Portoghese di Sant´Antonio in Roma António Marques, Bela Silva, Fausto Maria Franchi, Maximilian Vilz, Tereza Seabra
2009/10 GARBAGE PIN. PROJECT "Worth v. Waste" project by Ana Cardim, travelling exhibition, Barcelona (Galeria Klimt02); Porto (Galeria MCO); Lisbon (Galeria Articula), Antwerp (Silke & The Gallery).
2009 ON THE OTHER HAND, Exhibition commemorating the fifth anniversary of PIN - Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea, Galeria Reverso, Lisboa
 

A selection:

1987 City, Les Éclaireurs
1989 Art Áurea Internationale Zeitschrift für Gestaltung | Dimensão - Artefacto 3 / Ourivesaria Contemporânea
1991 Configura 1 - Künste in Europa Erfurt' 91
1992 International Crafts Year Book 1991/ 92 edited by Martina Margetts
1993 Design & Designers Portugal, Associação Portuguesa de Designers, APD Directório,
1994 Design Lisboa 94, Grupo Dimensão, Electa
1997 Jóias para Alexandre de'Médici, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
1998 Portugal, Quando o Atlântico Encontra a Europa, Expo 98, ICEP | Dictionnaire International du Bijoux, Éditions du Regard.
1999 Isto é uma Jóia – 20 anos de Joalharia no Ar.Co,
2000 Memória do Futuro, Cultura, Moda, Um Povo, Lisbon, ICEP,.
2002 +Portugal Powered by Moda Lisboa, .
1978-2003 Ponto de Encontro, Meeting Point(s), Lisbon,
2003 25 Anos de Intervenções no Departamento de Joalharia do Ar.Co
2004 Leveza-Reanimar a Filigrana, ESAD/Museu do Ouro de Travassos
2005 Mais Perto/Closer – Ars Ornata Everywhere. Nowhere, Lisboa, Publicação de Instituto Português de Museus, Pin – Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea
2006 Quatro Pontos de Contacto entre Lisboa e Roma, Edição AGC – Associazione Gioillo Contemporâneo e Pin – Associação de Joalharia Contemporânea | Portugal Contemporary Jewellery , Antipode presentes, Mi-Mi Revista Desilusionist nº 2, 1/06, Rússia
2008 500 Pendents & Lockets Contemporary Interpretations of Classic Adornments - Lark Jewelry Book | Quel Air Clair Obras da Colecção do Ar.Co. – 35 anos/ Works from the Ar.Co Collection, Lisbon, Galeria/ Palácio das Galveias, Museu da Cidade, Lisboa | Jóias Reais, Joalharia Contemporânea Luso-Brasileira, Lisboa
2009 Garbage Pin Project, Barcelona, Klimt 02 Publishers.