José Rafael was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1995 and lives and works in London. Prior to the RCA he received his BA at Wimbledon College of Art in 2017, where his work was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries. José is the recipient of the Leverhulme Trust and the Gulbenkian Foundation Arts scholarships.
Selected group shows:
Final, not Over – again, Unit 1 Gallery, London, 2021
WIP SHOW, Royal College of Art, London, 2020
Life, Love, Labour, Brixton Beneficiary, London, 2019
Open Ended Questioning, Deptford x Fringe Festival, London, 2018
RBA Rising Stars, The Framers Gallery, London, 2018
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017, Block336, Brixton, London, 2018
The Ingram Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize, The Cello Factory, London, 2017
Fully Awake, ART PARK Glasgow at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, 2017