MANUEL SAN-PAYO

Portugal, 1958

GALERIA MONUMENTAL

BFA in Painting and PhD in Drawing from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon. Worked with Mario Mertz and studied with Georg Eisler (Model Drawing and Painting) at the International Academy of Arts in Salzburg, Austria. Specialized in print making
and litography with Dževad Hoso in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (1984/85).
Teaches Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts, in Lisbon.
He exhibits his work regularly since 1981 and is represented in public and private collections, both in Portugal and abroad. Founding member and curator of Galeria
Manuel San-Payo’s work is essentially indebted to drawing in its evident graphic component. Keeping a disciplined daily drawing practice of everyday observations for decades, even the abstract dominant of his work sustains a latent conflict with the figure and figuration that is always around, underlying or in suspension.