Manuel Caldeira was born in 1979, Oeiras, Portugal.
He studied painting at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London and at the Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual de Lisboa, where he completed the Advanced Course in Plastic Arts in 2006.
Manuel Caldeira participates in the Visual Arts Course of the Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2015, he was selected for the EDP New Artists Award and the Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Prize.
Among the exhibitions he has been included are Red as Scarlet White as Snow, at Giefarte and Si Sol Flat, Ar. Co de Xabregas, in 2019; Steam2 at Rockaway Beach, New York; Spettacolo at Galeria João Esteves de Oliveira, 2017; EDP New Artists Award at the Museu da Electricidade in 2015; Mostyn 20 Now, at Mostyn Gallery, Wales; Araruta (collaboration with Ana Jotta) at Galeria João Esteves de Oliveira; Before I Remember at the Carmona e Costa Foundation in 2012).
His work is represented in several collections: Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Vieira de Almeida, CAC - Centre d'art contemporain de Malaga, Luciano Bennetton, Ribeiro Figueiredo.
Lives and works in Lisbon.