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ricardo acosta

Born in 1986 in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, his life—and his art—found its home in Portugal. From an early age, he discovered in drawing an intimate territory, a place where imagination breathes and curiosity flourishes. For him, drawing is not a mystical gift, but a cultivated fascination: a practice that refines itself over time, between passion, discipline, and discovery. An architect trained at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho (PT), where he completed his Master's degree in 2013, he has always seen in art and construction two sides of the same restlessness: to understand, transform, and communicate what surrounds him. For him, drawing is both meditation and a tool—a way of thinking with his hands, of organizing the world through lines, shadows, and intentions. In 2017, he shaped another part of this creative impulse by founding, with two friends, LIMIT atudio. There, he continues building — houses, ideas, spaces, and possibilities. EXHIBITIONS + Collective exhibition with the drawing “This girl can fly” at the Verde Oliva gastronomic and cultural space, in Paredes, in 2025 + Collective exhibition at the event “ACTUM – 2020” with the work entitled “Flexible and Virtual House”, at the Casa dos Crivos gallery, Braga, in 2020 + Solo drawing exhibition entitled “Alice's Lines” named after Alice Acosta (daughter), at the event “NOC NOC Guimarães”, in 2018 + Collective exhibition entitled “The Section Drawing: Drawings Made in the Master's Thesis in Architecture”, at the Shair Gallery (now ZET Gallery), in 2014 + Solo drawing exhibition entitled “À minuta”, at the Banhos Velhos gallery, in Caldas das Taipas, in 2013 + Solo drawing exhibition entitled “Process”, at Studio One of the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, in 2013 + Solo drawing exhibition at the event “Noc Noc Guimarães” with Title “Expression of the Environment”, in 2013 + Collective exhibition “Viana in Analysis: 8 Visions between Context and Utopia”, in Viana do Castelo, in June 2013, and in A Coruña, in October 2013 + Collective exhibition in “Open Exhibition of Póvoa de Lanhoso”, in 2004, 2011, 2012, 2013

Born in 1986 in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, his life—and his art—found its home in Portugal. From an early age, he discovered in drawing an intimate territory, a place where imagination breathes and curiosity flourishes. For him, drawing is not a mystical gift, but a cultivated fascination: a practice that refines itself over time, between passion, discipline, and discovery.

An architect trained at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho (PT), where he completed his Master's degree in 2013, he has always seen in art and construction two sides of the same restlessness: to understand, transform, and communicate what surrounds him. For him, drawing is both meditation and a tool—a way of thinking with his hands, of organizing the world through lines, shadows, and intentions.

In 2017, he shaped another part of this creative impulse by founding, with two friends, LIMIT atudio. There, he continues building — houses, ideas, spaces, and possibilities.

EXHIBITIONS

+ Collective exhibition with the drawing “This girl can fly” at the Verde Oliva gastronomic and cultural space, in Paredes, in 2025
+ Collective exhibition at the event “ACTUM – 2020” with the work entitled “Flexible and Virtual House”, at the Casa dos Crivos gallery, Braga, in 2020
+ Solo drawing exhibition entitled “Alice's Lines” named after Alice Acosta (daughter), at the event “NOC NOC Guimarães”, in 2018
+ Collective exhibition entitled “The Section Drawing: Drawings Made in the Master's Thesis in Architecture”, at the Shair Gallery (now ZET Gallery), in 2014
+ Solo drawing exhibition entitled “À minuta”, at the Banhos Velhos gallery, in Caldas das Taipas, in 2013
+ Solo drawing exhibition entitled “Process”, at Studio One of the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, in 2013
+ Solo drawing exhibition at the event “Noc Noc Guimarães” with Title “Expression of the Environment”, in 2013
+ Collective exhibition “Viana in Analysis: 8 Visions between Context and Utopia”, in Viana do Castelo, in June 2013, and in A Coruña, in October 2013
+ Collective exhibition in “Open Exhibition of Póvoa de Lanhoso”, in 2004, 2011, 2012, 2013