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Francisco Laranjo (1955 – 16 November 2022) was a Portuguese contemporary painter and educator.
Laranjo was born in 1955 in Lamego, Portugal. He was the director of the School of Arts[1] and associate professor of Porto University and has been lecturer in many universities in cities such as Bilbao, Ottawa, Sheffield, Alexandria, Sofia, Paris and Athens.
As an artist, he has exhibited extensively and in several countries, including Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Canada, India, United Kingdom, and China.
From his many individual shows, it is possible to highlight the following in Porto (Iter Duriense, Nasoni Gallery, 1993), UK (Simultaneities, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry and The Gallery in Cork Street, London, 1997), Aylmer, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Intimate Land, Chateau Cartier and Camões Institute, 1998), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Espelho, Museum of the Republic, 2002), Riga, Latvia (Recent Work, Latvian Academy of Art and Bastejs Gallery, 2002).
Laranjo received several scholarships for post-graduate research, including grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1981–1983), National Scientific Board (Egypt and The Netherlands, 1995), European Committee (1995–1999) and the Goethe Institut, Dresden, Germany.
Laranjo lived and worked in Porto, Portugal. He died from cancer on 16 November 2022, at the age of 67.[2]
