Renato Roque was born in 1952, in Oporto, Portugal Since the beginning of the 80s that he has a regular activity on Photography and other artistic projects

Main Exhibitions and Photography Individual Projects since 2000 - "Paintings from the other side of Manuel Manchinha" bi, tri and ene-dimensional photographic objects (1998 to 2000) PT Porto Space: Music Conservatory of Porto; ACERT Tondela; Zé dos Bois Gallery, Lisbon; Nave Gallery, Matosinhos; Regional Cultural Centre of Vila Real; Sentidos Gratis, Oporto; "The Hour Sweats" (1999 to 2000) Image Meetings of Braga; Árvore Cooperative, Oporto; Photography Biennial of Vila Franca de Xira; "City Bodies" (20of to 2003) Image Meetings of Braga; Biennial of Vila Franca de Xira; Serpente Gallery, Oporto; Vila Nova de Cerveira Gallery, integrated in the Biennial of Photography; Projection "Descobertus/Descoberti" with Music by João Lóio Image Meetings of Braga; Portuguese Photography Centre (Arts House); May Fair; Abril em Maio, Lisbon; Biennial of Vila Franca de Xira; "D'Ouro d'Alendouro" (2003 to 2004)          Sendim; Foz-Côa; Vila Real; Bragança; Mirandela; Mogadouro; Gil Vicente Theatre, Coimbra; ACERT, Tondela; Navio de Espelhos, Aveiro; "Cathedrals of Silence" Serpente Gallery, Oporto; Abril em Maio, Lisbon; "Landscapes of Silence" (2004) Photography Portuguese Centre Oporto; "Solitary Ballad" (2004 to 2005) ESAD, Oporto; Navio de Espelhos Bookshop, Aveiro; Velha a Branca Cultural Cooperative, Braga.

Main Publications in the areas of Photography and Writing - "Mirrors" (1992), Photography and poetic texts; "Chests of Dreams" (1994), with illustration by Carlos Reis; "Renato in the Little Splotches Country" (1997), illustrated with Photography by the author and Drawings by Carlos Reis; "The Land Of Squares" (1998); "The Hour Sweats" (1998), Photography, with selection of texts by Regina Guimarães; "City Bodies" (2001), Photography with texts by Eduarda Dionísio; "Projections of Memory" (2003). with the Photographers Aníbal Lemos and José Manuel Rodrigues; "D'Ouro d'Alendouro" (2003), Photography with texts by the poet Jorge Sousa Braga; "Cathedrals of Silence" (2004), Photography with texts by Eduarda Dionísio; "Solitary Ballad" (2004); Photography with texts by the Spanish Galician writer Fran Alonso; "Glass of Time" (2005), with illustrations by Catarina Silva.