Nuno Cera

Nuno Cera is a photographer and video artist whose work addresses spatial issues and their conditions of perception, architecture, and urban contexts through poetic and documentary forms.

His work has been exhibited and published internationally in various cultural institutions. He is represented in several public and private collections. Lives and works in Lisbon. Artist residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in 2001 (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant), Berlin. In 2003, with the architect Diogo Seixas Lopes, he published the book Cimêncio, a survey of suburban landscapes. Nominated for the BES Photo prize in 2004.

Artist residency at ISCP, New York, USA, 2006. Between 2007 and 2010 he carried out the Futureland project, an artistic investigation into urban growth in nine metropolises. In 2012 he received a grant from the XX edition of the Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, with the project Sinfonia doDesconhecido I. Artist residency at the International Artist Residency Récollets (Mairie de Paris), Paris, 2013 and in Macau in 2018 (Babel - Cultural Organization and Fundação Oriente).

In 2019 he received support from Dgartes - Ministry of Culture / Portuguese Republic for the video installation Sinfonia do Desconhecido II. Cera was one of the artists invited to represent Portugal at the Venice Architecture BiennalePublic without rhetoric (2018) and Metaflux (2004).