Rui Sanches

Rui Sanches (1954, Lisbon) studied at Ar.Co, in Lisbon, at Goldsmiths’ College in London (B.A. 1980) and at Yale University in New Haven (M.F.A. 1982). He received a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship for the period 1980/1982. His first one-person exhibition of drawings took place in Lisbon in the Modern Art Gallery of SNBA in 1984, soon followed by a first exhibition of sculpture in Galeria Diferença, in the same city. Since then he has shown his work in many galleries, museums and art centers, both in Portugal and abroad.