Joaquim S. Marques was born in 1972 in Frankfurt (Germany). He studied at the Offenbach School of Arts and Design, Germany with Prof. Adam Jankowkski (1990-94) and at the Frankfurt School of Fine Arts with Prof. Thomas Bayrle (1994-95), where he finished his degree in Visual Arts. He obtained a grant from the Johannes Mosbach Foundation in 1994 and from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in 1998. That same year, he settled in Portugal. In 2001/2002 he studied Painting with Prof. Castro Caldas at the Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual in Lisbon. Between 2013 and 2016, he lived and worked in Brazil. In 2015 he and the Brazilian artist Letícia Barreto created the artistic duo Pocket Entropy, collaborating on various projects since then. Return to Portugal in early 2017. That same year he was artist in residence at MArt in Lisbon. Selected for the 12th edition of the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Prize in 2020 in Amarante. In 2021 he was artist in residence at the 5th International Symposium of Contemporary Art in Guarda and at VIARCO in São João da Madeira and took part in the International Art Biennale of Gaia.
Joaquim S. Marques lives and works in Lisbon.
Since 1994 he has participated in individual and collective exhibitions, such as: Solstice, Galeria Ato Abstrato, Lisbon, (2022); Passages, Museu de Santa Maria, Azores, PT (2022); The Discreet Charme of Certain Places, Biblioteca de Belém, Lisbon (2022); Other Places, Galeria do CLR da Ordem dos Advogados, Lisbon (2022); Anonymous Drawings, Galerie am Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany (2022); The Landscape Dreamers, Casa da Cultura, Ílhavo, PT (2022); Far away inside me, Auditório Municipal de Vila do Conde, PT (2022); Beyond Matter, Galeria do Convento do Espírito Santo, Loulé, PT (2021); Everything Flows, Casa de Cultura Jaime Lobo e Silva, Ericeira, PT (2021); IV Internacional Biennale of Art of Gaia, Lever, PT (2021); Home, Morgan Library Jersey City, NJ, USA (2021); Memories of Nowhere, Museu da Guarda, PT (2021); Somewhere, maybe..., Art Lab/ Museu das Artes, Sintra, PT (2021); Landscapes, I want them with me, Casa Municipal da Cultura, Coimbra, PT (2020); Through a Fluid Mosaic, Art Curator Grid, online (2020); Landscapes, Memories and other Murmurs, Galeria Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo, PT (2020); When the Night Falls, Ateneu O Catorze, São Luis/ Odemira, PT (2020); The Memory of Water, Galeria Municipal Palácio da Quinta da Piedade, Póvoa de Santa Iria, PT (2020); Nightmare, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA (2020); Sustainable Connection, Unobvious Lab, Lisbon, PT (2020); Forgotten Landscapes, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Lisbon, PT (2019); Memories from Nowhere, Centro de Documentação, Lisbon, PT (2019); Which Landscape, Livraria Sá da Costa - Galeria, Lisbon, PT (2019); Love is Eternal While it Lasts, Nohso pop up, Lisbon, PT (2019); The Conquest of the Useless, Biblioteca Municipal Camões, Lisbon, PT (2019); Lost in Memories, Livraria Sá da Costa - Galeria, Lisbon, PT (2018); Cruzamentos, USALMA, Almada, PT (2018); I'm no longer who I was when I left, Casa de Cultura Jaime Lobo e Silva, Ericeira, PT (2017); Escalas Desejantes, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Lisbon, PT (2017); New projects, Livraria Sá da Costa - Galeria, Lisbon, PT (2017); We the Others, SESC Sorocaba, BR (2016); Destiny Lines, Galeria Fernanda Monteiro, Sorocaba, BR (2016); Transitar, Museu Paulo Setúbal, Tatuí, BR (2016); Lost in Memory, Chalé Francês (MACS), Sorocaba, BR (2016); Paratíssima, Intervenções Artísticas no Espaço Urbano, Lisboa (2016); Lost in Memory, Chalé Francês (MACS), Sorocaba, BR (2016); Finalistas Prêmio Flávio Gagliardi, Palacete Scarpa, Sorocaba, BR (2015); Fragments of a Paradise, Jardim Botânico Irmãos Villas Boas, Sorocaba, BR (2015); Flávio Gagliardi Prize, Palacete Scarpa, Sorocaba, BR (2015); Poipodrome, Frestas - Trienale de Artes, SESC, Sorocaba, BR (2014).