Gonçalo Cabral

Born in Lisbon in 1948. In the 60s he was a drawing student of the painter Rafael Calado and the sculptors João Fragoso and Hélder Baptista. In 1964/65 he attended the Artistic Training Course at the Society of Fine Arts.

In 1967 he won the Plastic Arts Prize from the Juvenile Supplement of the Diário de Lisboa.

In 1972 he completed his degree in Architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, where he was a drawing student of the sculptors Lagoa Henriques and Soares Branco.

In 1981 he settled in the Municipality of Lagos, where, in addition to practicing architecture independently, he was an effective teacher in the Visual Arts group at Escola Secundária Gil Eanes for 30 years.

He held solo painting exhibitions in Lagos-1999 (Regimental Warehouse), 2000 (Slave Market) and 2014 (Tourist Office).

He was part of the initial nucleus of the informal group “Artistas de Barão de São João”, having participated in collective exhibitions from 2012 to 2022.

He has participated in almost all artist exhibitions organized by Lagos City Council since 1996. Recently, he received 3rd prize in the “LocalArte” project (2022) and an Honorable Mention in the “D. Sebastião in the History of Lagos” (2023).