Bio/CV – Matilde de Oliveira Roque

Matilde de Oliveira Roque is a Portuguese artist based in London, UK. She completed a MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London, in 2025, and a BA in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art in 2023. She has recently exhibited her first solo show 8-80, at AINORI, in Lisbon. She has been part of group shows including Tender Grounds at Terrace Gallery, Réverie de Fleur at The Salon, and Parrhesia at the Hockney Gallery in London, and Frequencies at Oceans Apart in Manchester, as well as self-curated group shows as part of the collective Dilemma as a student in Manchester.

Matilde de Oliveira Beja Rodrigues Roque, b. Lisbon, 2001

Selected Exhibitions

Solo shows

2026 8-80, AINORI, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2026

Group shows

2026 A Scattering of Clouds, Framing Gallery Green and Stone, London, April 2026

2025 Tender Grounds, Terrace Gallery, London, October 2025

Interior Murmur, The Salon x Stratum Gallery, September 2025

Réverie de Fleur, The Salon, London, upcoming July 2025

Parrhesia, Hockney Gallery Royal College of Art, London, May 2025

2024 Tiny Art Show, Seminar Room Royal College of Art, London, Dec 2024

Frequencies, Oceans Apart Gallery, Manchester, Nov 2024

2023 Through the Cracks, The Rag Gallery, Manchester

A Tight Spot, three-artist show curated by Dilemma, XLR, Manchester

2022 Take Care, Group Show curated by Dilemma, XLR, Manchester

Night shift, Group Show curated by Dilemma, XLR, Manchester

Lost in the supermarket, three-artist show curated by Dilemma, XLR, Manchester

2021 Open Iso(lation), Group Show, Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford

Prizes

Valerie Beston Painting Prize, 2025

Selected for Longlist of Signature Art Prize, 2025

Selected for Extended Longlist of Jackson’s Art Prize, 2025

Ali H Alkazzi Scholarship 2024

People’s Prize at ‘Open Iso(lation)’, Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford, 2021

Education & Qualifications

MA Painting (awarded Ali H Alkazzi Scholarship), Royal College of Art London, 2024-25

First Class Honours BA Fine Art Hons, Manchester School of Art, 2020-23

Distinction in Art & Design Foundation, Oxford Brookes University, 2019-20

Matilde de Oliveira Roque is a Portuguese artist based in London, UK. She completed a MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London, in 2025, and a BA in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art in 2023. She has recently exhibited her first solo show 8-80, at AINORI, in Lisbon. She has been part of group shows including Tender Grounds at Terrace Gallery, Réverie de Fleur at The Salon, and Parrhesia at the Hockney Gallery in London, and Frequencies at Oceans Apart in Manchester, as well as self-curated group shows as part of the collective Dilemma as a student in Manchester.