Nuno Sacramento
Nuno Sacramento is a Mozambiquean-born Portuguese curator, and the Director of peacock & the worm (Aberdeen, Scotland). Between 2010 and 2016 he was Director of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop. He is a graduate of DeAppel Foundation, Amsterdam, and has a PhD by practice in Visual Arts (Shadow Curating) from DJCAD, University of Dundee.
In 2010, after introducing Shadow Curating to Deveron Arts, he co-wrote ARTOCRACY (Jovis) with Claudia Zeiske. In 2015, he and Brett Bloom co-organised CAMP BREAKDOWN SCOTLAND and co-wrote Deep Mapping (Half Letter Press). More recently, through his work at Peacock, Sacramento set up the worm – a gallery dedicated to printing and publishing of visual arts and underground cultural activity – where he co-curated Another World is Possible with Aberdeen People’s Press and ran Scotland’s first fully-funded Curatorial Fellowship in 2019-20. He is currently working on 7 solo shows under the title New Aberdeen Bestiary, and an exhibition about the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970s Aberdeen.
Sacramento has organised many projects such as Makers’ Meal (Scotland/Portugal/Brazil), Slow Prototypes, Skills Biennale, ART CUP (Portugal / Serbia / Finland / Scotland) and B-sides. He is a member of IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art and sits on the board of Scottish Contemporary Art Network.
