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BIOGRAPHY
Duarte Perry is an interdisciplinary artist based between Zurich and Lisbon. Working across photography, performance, and installation, his practice engages with emotion, memory, and disappearance, interweaving personal and collective narratives. He approaches disappearance and memory as active processes, showing how absence reshapes affective relations across bodies, images, and spatial contexts.
Often investigating the semiotics of affection, he stages performative gestures of care, loss and belonging. Materially, Perry works with fabric, stone, metal, and plexiglass—frequently linked to family heritage — bridging architecture and fashion.
He holds a BA in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, and an MFA from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), where he received the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship.
Recent solo exhibitions include Emotional Extractions — Images of Disappearance (Centre Culturel Portugais — Camões, Luxembourg, 2025; curated by Julian Denzler), Presence through Others (MATERIAL, Zurich, 2024; curated by Lucas Gasgar), La Biennale Architectures (Luxembourg, 2024). Group exhibitions include EMoP (Luxembourg, 2025), TOXI Space (Zurich, 2023), and Fundação D. Luís I (Portugal, 2023). His works are held in public and private collections, including MAC|CCB (Lisbon) and MU.SA — Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sintra.
He has been an artist-in-residence at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (2024), the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2022), and MAAT—Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Portugal (2020). He is also the founder of Artists’ Voices, an upcoming podcast and digital platform based in Zurich that spotlights artists connected to Switzerland through in-depth, English-language conversations.
Awards & Recognitions
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2021 - 2023 Master of Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK, Switzerland
2018 - 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
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(Selection)
2025 Emotional Extractions - Images of Disappearance, curated by Julian Denzler, at Camões - Centre Culturel Portugais, Luxembourg, LUX (cat.)
2024 Presence Through Others, curated by Lucas Gasgar, at MATERIAL, Zurich, CH
2024 LOVÓ, La Biennale Architectures, Esch Capitale Culturelle, Luxembourg, LU
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(Selection)
2025
EMOPLUX- European Month of Photography, curated by Paul di Felici, Luxembourg, LUX
Rautistrasse 3000, curated by the collectives RAUTI & Papillarya, Zurich, CH
2024
La Biennale ‘Architectures’, Esch Capitale Culturelle, Luxembourg, LUX
2023
Art Arrived at Colombo, II edition, Fundação D.Luís I, Cascais, PT
Bring your worst Artwork, Toxi Space, Zurich, CH
CONTROL, Diploma show ZHdK, curated by Anna Roberta Goetz, Zurich, CH
2022
Emergency, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, curated by Mithu Sen, SG, Asia
D. Fernando II Prize, Sintra Museum of Contemporary Arts, MU.SA, PT
VII Edition Sintra Photography Award, Sintra Museum of Contemporary Arts, MU.SA, PT
2021
Sonae Art Award “Art arrived at Colombo”, Berardo Museum Collection, Lisbon, PT
D. Fernando Prize XVI edition, Sintra Museum of Contemporary Arts, MU.SA, PT
Em Suspenso, Galeria Municipal de Loures, PT
À Superfície, Museu Mineiro, curated by Luzia Alves, Lousal, PT
2020
MAAT Art Residency Exhibition, Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology, Lisbon, PT
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2024 Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg, LUX
2022 Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, Asia
2020 MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology, Lisbon, PT
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Museum of Contemporary Art, MAC | CCB, PT
Sintra Museum of Contemporary Arts, MU.SA, PT
Katar Embassy, Bern, CH
Private collections in CH, IT, LU, SG and PT
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2025 Pro Helvetia, Studio Visit Grant.
2025 International Project, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, grant (winner)
2023 Art Arrived in Colombo, II edition, D. Luís I Foundation, Cascais, PT (finalist)
2022 Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, CH (winner)
2021 Honourable Mention, VII Edition of the Sintra Photography Award, Museum of Contemporary Arts, MU.SA, Sintra, PT
2020 Sonae Sierra Prize “Art arrived at Colombo”, Lisbon, PT, (finalist)
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2025 Denzler, Julian. Emotional Extractions – Images of Disappearance, in: European Month of Photography Luxembourg (EMOPLUX), published by Café Crème asbl, Luxembourg
2023 Ridlhammer, Rabea, Velvet Kisses, published by ANSELM VERLAG
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September 2025 Interview Duarte Perry, with RDP Internacional - RTP, on Emotional Extractions - Images of Disappearance, with Raquel Barreira.
May 2025 Interview with Ana Cristina Gonçalves (Radio Latina, Luxembourg), on Emotional Extractions – Images of Disappearance
May 2025 Lorgé, Marie-Anne, «Récits Cachés», review of Emotional Extractions – Images of Disappearance, author’s website.
May and June 2025 Cité Magazine Luxembourg — feature on Emotional Extractions – Images of Disappearance, Centre Culturel Portugais – Camões, Luxembourg
June 2024 Le Quotidien Luxembourg, LOVÓ, Project.
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INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
Museum of Contemporary Art – MAC | CCB, PT
Camões – Centre Culturel Portugais, LUX
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
MAAT Museum, PT
C2DH - Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History, LUX
Esch Capitale Culturelle, LUXFINANTIAL SUPPORT
Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
Swiss Government
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
SOTA - State of the Art