Guilherme Parente is a Portuguese painter, born in Lisbon. In the early 1960s, he studied painting with master Roberto Araújo at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon. He also attended engraving courses at Gravura – Sociedade Cooperativa de Gravadores Portugueses, in Lisbon. Between 1968 and 1970, he studied at the Slade School in London as a grantee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Guilherme Parente was a member of the group 5+1, alongside sculptor Virgílio Domingues and painters João Hogan, Júlio Pereira, Sérgio Pombo, and Teresa Magalhães.