Filipe Casaca (Lisbon, Portugal; 1983). Graduated in Plastic Arts Sculpture at Faculty of Fine Arts (Lisbon) and on Photography at Portuguese Institute of Photography (Lisbon) in 2008. He frequented the Artist in Residence Yamanashi (AIRY) (Japan) in 2011, and in the same year was awarded an Artistic Creation Scholarship by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
He exhibited a minha casa é onde estás (my home is where you are) in 2010 at K-Gallery (Lisbon), in 2011 at Pente 10 Gallery (Lisbon), at Artist in Residence Yamanashi (Japan), at Begira Photo Festival (Spain), and in 2013 at Bipielle Arte (Italy). In 2012 he exhibited Blue Mud Swamp at Pente 10 Gallery, and in 2013 at Museu da Imagem (Museum of the Image) (Braga, Portugal) and at Hors Format (Belgium). He was selected for the collective exhibition Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2012 at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA) (Japan), in 2013. At the same year he exhibited Affections at Institute Cervantes of Tokyo (Japan).
Published the books a minha casa é onde estás (my home is where you are) in 2011, and Blue Mud Swamp in 2012. His books have been exhibited in Atlanta Celebrates Photography (USA); Flash Forward Festival (USA); Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (USA); Photobook Shows in Brighton (UK) and Helsinki Museum of Photography (Finland); and at the Book Awards of Rencontres d’Arles (France).
Filipe Casaca is represented in the Public Collections of BESart (Portugal) and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA) (Japan).
