João Miguel Barros

Founder & 1st President of Board of Directors

João Miguel Barros was born in 1958, in Lisbon, Portugal.

In 2017, he began to exhibit his photography work, with individual exhibitions at “Creative Macau”, Macao (2017), at “Museu Coleção Berardo”, Lisbon, Portugal (2018), at “Macau Contemporary Art Center – Navy Yard nº 1”, Macao (2019), at Albergue SCM, Macao (2019), at Fundação Rui Cunha, Macao (2020) and at Faculty of Law of the Lisbon University (2023).

He has also participated in several group exhibitions.

He was selected in 2021 to represent Macao at the Macao International Art Biennial.

As an artist, João Miguel Barros has received several distinctions in international photo competitions (https://www.jmb.photo/brief-cv-awards/).

He published four photobooks. At the beginning of 2020, he started publishing the magazine “Zine Photo” (www.zine.photo), with his own work. Photo London Academy published one edition of its Magazine (nº 32), exclusively dedicated to his work (https://online.flippingbook.com/view/416129/).

João Miguel Barros is also a freelance curator in contemporary photography.

Was selected, as curator, together with the artists Ung Vai Meng and Chan Hin Io to represent Macau in the “59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia” (https://www.gov.mo/pt/noticias/563042/).

He is the founder of the “Ochre Space” (www.ochrespace.com) in Lisbon a center focused on contemporary photography.