Celso

Celso Junior was born in Guararapes, Sao Paulo, Brazil on 5 February, 1961. After studying Chemical Engineering for two years, Celso switched to Painting and graduated from the Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná, in Curitiba Brazil in 1985.

While in Brazil Celso was Set and Costume Designer for sveral opera, theatreand ballet shows, yet still found time to take further training in Documumentation and Archiving.

In 1989 Celso moved to Lisbon, Portugal and, shortly afterward embarked on his pofessional artistic activities. These included some projects at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and, in collaboration with eth GNR - one of Portugals's Police Forces - a painted compilation of all its official uniforms dating from 1911 to 1993.

A short time after this porject Celso began to mount exhibitions in Portugal and elsewhere, in galleries sucha s Galérie des Figuratifs Expressionnistes in Paris, Galeria Labyrintho in Oporto, Galeria do Principe Real in Lisbon. In addition - from 1986 to 1996 - Celso was a photographic producer, with companies in both Brazil and Portugal.

In 2007 Celso moved to Lucerne, Switzerland.