Tomas Cajueiro

An innovative Brazilian with a strong desire to share experiences. Photographer with long experience in documentary photography, also became a cultural producer to have other means to express ideas and to bring MY theoretical reflections to a more tangible dimension.

Used to living different cultures and communicating with different people, I'm is passionate about communication, multiculturalism and learning opportunities that can emerge from the encounter with what is different. This is the idea that led ME to live in different countries and three continents.

Bachelor in Communication Sciences at University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy), Graduated in Political Science at University of Manchester (UK), having a master’s degree in cultural management by Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Brazil). I'm is currently pursuing a phd in photojournalism at autonomous university of barcelona.

Founder, in 2014, of an independent company with the aim of promoting culture through artists career management and cultural projects. Images and projects loaded with expression and feeling, which proposes a reflection, to those who observe, on the lives of others and the cultural differences that ennoble and enrich our world.

In July 2019, he had returned to Europe to develop a network with European cultural producers to give his projects a global dimension by learning from their stories and also contributing through his own experiences. in doing so its open for new partnerships WITH PHOTO AGENCIES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PHOTO REPORTAGES AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION ON THE AUDIOVISUAL SEGMENT.

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CURRICULUM

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIEs

• Ph.D. in Communication and Journalism. October/2020 – October/2025 (expected conclusion date) – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

• MBA in Cultural goods: culture, economy, and management (March/2015 – October/2017) Getúlio Vargas Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil

• Master’s degree with Merits in International Politics (September/2011 – September/2012) University of Manchester – Manchester, England

• Bachelor's in Communication Sciences (September/2007 – July /2010) University for Foreigners of Perugia – Perugia, Italy. - 2009 (Erasmus, 4 months) Department of Middle Eastern History and Political Science, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey.

SOLO Exhibitions

2022 - Terùn, Espacio de exposición Facultad de Filosofía – UAB (Barcelona) 2020 - Dal vuolto al Volto, Palazzo Lascaris (Torino)
2019 - Terùn, L'Arteficio: Show Room & Art Factory (Torino)
2019 - Terùn, Virada Sustentável de Campinas (Campinas/SP)
2019 - Scavenger of Hope, Virada Sustentável de Valinhos/SP
2017 - Brazilian Portraits: São Paulo, Galeria Braz Cubas, Santos/SP 2017 - Brazilian Portraits: São Paulo, Museu Araçatubense de Artes Plásticas Araçatuba/SP
2017 - Brazilian Portraits: São Paulo, Museu Histórico Sorocabano, Sorocaba/SP
2016 - Brazilian Portraits, Cavallerizza Irreale, Turin, Italy
2016 - Brazilian Portraits, Università per stranieri di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
2016 - The beauty and the pain: an experience in Nigeria, Centro de Exposições da Unicamp - Piracicaba and Campinas/SP
2015 - Portraits from Campinas, Museu da Imagem e Som (MIS) – Campinas/SP 2014 - The beauty and the pain: an experience in Nigeria, Ponto de Cultura Ibaô – Campinas/SP 2012 - The beauty and the pain: an experience in Nigeria, CIS Guanabara (UNICAMP) – Campinas/SP

Group Exhibitions

2021 - Tra le speranze, Vinhedo Visual Arts Festival

2018 - Almada, Ubatuba Arts Festival

2017 - Ocupe.Arte: Valinhos, Espaço Cutural Aguazul Piscinas,Valinhos/SP

2014 - Brazilian Portraits, 1o Fórum da Juventude – Valinhos/SP

2014 - Nigerian Faces, Novo Panorama das Artes – Valinhos/SP

2011 - The beauty and the pain: an experience in Nigeria, 8th Salão Nacional de fotografia Pérsio Galembeck – Araras/SP

GRANTS AND PUBBLICATIONS

2022 Exposition and printed catalog (Brazil) - Ocupe.Arte Trajetória: Genivaldo Amorim Grant by the State of São Paulo Culture department (PROAC).

2021 Exposition and printed catalog (Brazil) - Espécies Nativas (PROAC)

2021 Exposition and printed catalog (Brazil) - Ocupe.Arte Trajetória: Marcos Guimarães. Grant by the State of São Paulo Culture department (PROAC)

2020 Printed catalog - ‘Racconto Plurale – ‘Canta Oltre’ - Grant by CRT Foundation (Italy)

2020 Article Publication (Brazil) - ‘Terùn: a reflection on epistemological colonialism’, Revista de Ciências da Sociedade, V.3, N. 6

2020 Exposition and printed catalog (Brazil) - Ocupe.Arte Connections: arts between cities. Grant by the State of São Paulo Culture department (PROAC

2019 Photo ethnography research and exposition (Brazil) - Terùn: stories from the Movimento Sem Terra, Grant by the Virada Sustentável Institute

2019 Photo ethnography research and exposition - Scavengers of Hope, grant by the Virada Sustentável Institute

2019 Exposition and printed catalog (Brazil) - Ocupe.Arte Artists of Valinhos Sticker Collection. Grant by the State of São Paulo Culture department (PROAC)

2017 Book publication and exposition (Brazil) - 'Retratos Brasileiros: São Paulo,' São Proac, Grant by the State of São Paulo Culture department (PROAC)

2015 Exposition (Brazil) - 'Retratos Campineiros,' Campinas, Grant by the Campinas Culture departament (FIIC)