Tiago Madaleno (1992, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal). Visual artist whose approach to artmaking is multimodal. His creative process transfers images between different mediums as a strategy to develop narratives and to reflect about performance. Madaleno studied at the Department of Fine Arts, University of Porto, where he was awarded a Masters degree in Painting (2016). He has exhibited his artwork since 2013, in the solo shows Smoke Room (2023), Museu Guerra Junqueiro, Porto; Light of September (2022), Galeria do Paço, Braga; A Garden at Night (2020), RAMPA, Porto, Criatório 2019 grant; and Clepsydra (2017-2018), Serralves, Porto, after winning Novo Banco Revelation Prize; among others. In 2022, he made the mural painting A Leaf in the Pocket, Porto Penitentiary Institution (Custóias), commissioned by the Serralves Foundation (project ‘Windows to the World’).
