Vítor Pomar was born in 1949, in Lisbon. He studied at the Fine Arts School of Lisbon and of Oporto (66-69). He lived in the Netherlands in the seventies, where he attended the Free Academy of The Hague and the Free Academy of Rotterdam. He has taught silkscreen at the Free Academy of The Hague (73-74). He uses different techniques in his work: b/w photo, experimental film 16mm and super 8mm. and video. Solo exhibitions (selection) Vítor Pomar – My Own Battlefield , Contemporary Art Museum of Serralves, Oporto; Painting and Drawing 1965 to 2002, Lisbon: Fidelidade-Mundial Chiado & Arte Contemporânea (org. Fernando Santos Gallery). Group exhibitions: (selection) Depois do Modernismo, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, 1984 Veins (Twenty Portuguese Artists Living in the Netherlands), Galerie Tribe 1, Amsterdam, Super 8 Film Festival, Stichting Makkom, Amsterdam, 1986-2002: Colecção de Arte Contemporânea Portuguesa da Fundação Luso-Americana, Uma Selecção, Serralves Foundation, Oporto; Micropráticas, LisboaPhoto 2005, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. 2002 EDP Painting Prize.
