Born in Lisbon in 1964, lives and works in New York and Lisbon. Graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (1992). Between 1994 and 1996 he completed his Master of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2002, joined as an assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. Exhibits regularly since 1991. He has held several solo and group exhibitions at the Chiado Museum in Lisbon; at the Laure Genillard Gallery in London; at the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in New York; in the Círculo de Artes Plásticas in Coimbra; in the Módulo - Centro Diffusor de Arte, in Lisbon; in Hospital Júlio de Matos, in Lisbon; in the Miguel Nabinho Gallery, in Lisbon, among others. His works are represented in many collections such as Serralves Foundation, Chiado Museum, Carmona and Costa Foundation, Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.