Bernardo Pinto de Almeida is the October guest on Conversas de Galeria, the informal conversation programme at the Municipal Gallery of Porto. The programme invites people from a wide range of fields to share how culture and the arts influence their daily lives, or what memories, influences and references they continually draw on in the present.

The writer and historian Bernardo Pinto de Almeida received the AICA/Gulbenkian Foundation Art Criticism Award in 1983. A retired professor of art theory and history at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, he sat on the Serralves Foundation Purchasing Committee from 1990 to 1996, during which time he organised several exhibitions. He curated the Portuguese art collection at the M.E.I.A.C. (Museo Extremeño Ibero-Americano de Arte Contemporáneo) in Badajoz, Spain, and served as the artistic director of the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation from 1995 to 2001. During his tenure, he established the Centre for Surrealism Studies and organised numerous exhibitions.

Between 2005 and 2009, he sat on the Board of Directors of the Berardo Foundation as a representative of the State. As an independent curator, he organised over a hundred exhibitions in museums and institutions in Portugal and Spain. He has written the preface to around three hundred catalogues in Portugal and abroad. He has delivered over three hundred lectures at cultural institutions in Portugal and abroad.

He also edited the 40-volume collection 'Caminhos da Arte Portuguesa no Século XX' for Editorial Caminho. He has contributed articles to the magazines Lapiz, Arte y Parte (Spain), Artforum and Contemporânea (USA), and has published approximately twenty books of essays on art and ten books of poetry.