About
Miguel Proença (b. 1984, Porto) lives and works in London.
CV
Education
| 2018 | MA Documentary Photography, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK |
| 2011 | BA Audio-Visual Communication Technology, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, PT |
| 2009 | Photography, Instituto Português de Fotografia, Porto, PT |
Awards, Grants and Honors
| 2020 | HSBC Prix pour la Photographie, FR, Nominated |
| 2019 | The Photographers’ Gallery New Talent, UK, Selected |
| 2019 | MACK First Book Award, UK, Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Unseen Dummy Award, NL, Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Fiebre Photobook Award, ES, Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award, PT, Honorable Mention |
| 2019 | Flash Foward Magenta Foundation, UK, Finalist |
| 2018 | British Journal of Photography, Fractured Stories, UK, Shortlisted |
| 2018 | SOURCE Magazine Graduate Photography, UK, Selected Graduate |
| 2018 | Photograd, UK , Selected Graduate |
| 2017 | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, PT, Scholarship |
| 2015 | VSCO Artist Initiative, USA, Grant |
| 2012 | Prémio Estação Imagem, Daily Life, PT, Winner |
| 2009 | FNAC Novos Talentos, PT, Honorable Mention |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2019 | TPG New Talent Annual Exhibition, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK |
| 2019 | A Glitch in the System, Photovogue, BASE, Milan, IT |
| 2019 | MACK First Book Award, Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK (book) |
| 2019 | Unseen Dummy Award, Unseen Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL (book) |
| 2019 | Fiebre Photobook Festival, Madrid, ES (book) |
| 2018 | The Buzzer, Riga Photomonth, Riga, LV (screening) |
| 2018 | Hiraeth, USW MA Documentary Photography, Truman Brewery, London, UK |
| 2018 | A Tension Span, USW MA Documentary Photography, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK |
| 2018 | RAVE, Projeto 18 DAI ESMAD, CPF, Porto, PT |
| 2017 | Common Thinking, Milano Photo Week, Milan, IT (screening) |
| 2016 | Thin Line, Museu Municipal Ourense, Ourense, ES |
| 2015 | Sala de Fiestas, Delhi Photo Festival, New Delhi, IN (screening) |
| 2015 | Contemporary Ibero-American Photography, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, USA |
| 2015 | Thin Line, Museu de Arqueologia D. Diogo de Sousa, Braga, PT |
| 2014 | Der Greif a Process, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, DE |
| 2013 | These Are Young People, Ena Rola Filma, Maribor, SL |
| 2012 | Curandeiros, Prémio Estação Imagem, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, PT |
| 2012 | Curandeiros, Prémio Estação Imagem, CPF, Porto, PT |
| 2011 | RAVE, Projeto 11 DAI ESMAE, CPF, Porto, PT |
| 2011 | Los Agarradores, FNAC Novos Talentos, Florence, IT |
| 2011 | Los Agarradores, FNAC Novos Talentos, Torino, IT |
| 2011 | Los Agarradores, FNAC Novos Talentos, Cascais, PT |
| 2011 | Los Agarradores, FNAC Novos Talentos, Matosinhos, PT |
Press
WÜL Magazine, Interview, April 4, 2021
Bird in Flight, Doves Fly Over the Eurozone, March 9, 2021
Youthies Magazine, The Folkloric Issue, May 2020
MAPS Magazine, Issue 140, Behind the Hill, January 2020
P3 Público, The Buzzer, November 13, 2019
Vogue Italia, A Glitch in the System, September 25, 2019
Hero Magazine, Meet eight of tomorrow’s most exciting talents, June 13, 2019
Lens Culture, Elastic Forms, Elastic Visions, May 2019
Another Magazine, Ten Photographers to Have on Your Radar, May 10, 2019
British Journal of Photography, MACK First Book Award Shortlist, February 22, 2019
Source Photographic Review, The Buzzer, Issue 95, August 2018
It’s Nice That, Behind the Hill, August 22, 2018
British Journal of Photography, Fractured Stories: Meet the eight finalists, July 30, 2018
NevoAzul, COLECTIVO Thin Line, June 2018
VSCO Artist Initiative, Work in Progress, September 2016
CNN, Life on the border of Spain and Portugal, December 21, 2015
Ain’t Bad Magazine, Sala de Fiestas, June 28, 2015
FotoRoom Living with the Dead – Inside the Necropolis in Cairo, January 2015
OjodePez Magazine #36: Selected Portfolios PhotoEspaña Descubrimientos, February 2014
Teaching
| 2020– | Instituto de Produção Cultural & Imagem, Porto, PT |
| 2011– | Instituto Português de Fotografia, Porto, PT |
| 2016–17 | Museu do Douro, Peso da Régua, PT |
Residencies
| 2014 | Fundação Bienal de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, PT |