Bio
Frank Magalhães has been a serious photographer since the early 1950s. He has explored the art and technique of photography through books, articles, and personal observation. He began showing his work in public when, at the beginning of 2003, he joined Gallery 14, a cooperative gallery of photographic art in Hopewell, New Jersey. He maintained his membership at Gallery 14 for ten years. Elsewhere in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, his works have been shown in exhibits at the New Jersey State Museum, the Grounds for Sculpture, Ellarslie – the Trenton City Museum, Phillips’ Mill, The Noyes Museum of Art, the Erdman Gallery at Princeton Theological Seminary, and Montgomery Cultural Center for the Arts. His works are in many private collections as well as the collections of the New Jersey State Museum, the Hunterdon Art Museum and Ellarslie.
Magalhães has also been a member of the arts organization MOVIS since its early days in 2006. With MOVIS he has helped mount, and has exhibited his work in shows at the Mason Gross Galleries – Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (In Suspension – 2008), the Anne Reid Gallery at Princeton Day School, Princeton, NJ (Nibbling the White Cube – 2008), the Gallery at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor Township, NJ (Connect | Reconnect – 2009), the Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ (Reinventing the Wheel – 2010), the Bernstein Gallery in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Inside the Box – 2011), the Hostetter Gallery at The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ (Bumping into Intangibles – 2011), the Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ (MOVILITY: MOVIS Moves Meaning – 2012) the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (MOVIS: HAM & Eggs — 2013), the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (Boomerang — 2013), the Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ (Noise@Noyes — 2013), the Atrium Gallery, Cluis, France (Qui Suis-Je? — 2014), and Artworks, Trenton, NJ (Maverick Parallels — 2015).
Frank Magalhães lives in Princeton with his life-partner Rita Z. Asch, a musician, composer and soundpiece artist.
11 July 2015