Pedro Vaz
Bio
Pedro Vaz was born in 1977 in Maputo, Mozambique. He lives and works in Lisbon.
Highlights include participation in group exhibitions, such as Loops-Expanded 2021, at MNAC, Lisbon, PT; LA TORMENTA, 2020, Centro Cultural Teopanzolco, Cuernavaca, MX; O Olhar Divergente, 2019, Arquipélago - Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Azores, PT; After the shock, the tropics, 2018, Galeria Luísa Strina, São Paulo, BR; Second Nature, 2018, The Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C, US; Segunda Natureza, 2016, MAAT, Lisbon, PT.
He also held residencies in PIVÔ, São Paulo, BR; Labverde, Manaus, BR; in ISLA, Chile; at Garhi Artist Studio, New Delhi, IN; and also at the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, US. The following grants and distinctions stand out: LOOPSEXPANDED 2021, MNAC, Lisbon, PT; 2021 - Guarantee Culture Program, Lisbon, PT; 2017 - LOOP DISCOVER Award (Finalist), Loop Barcelona, Barcelona, ES; 2014 - Projects to Support Artistic Research, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PT; 2011 - Support for Artistic Creation Projects, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PT. His work is still represented in collections such as: CAM / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, PT; Serralves Museum / Serralves Foundation, Porto, PT; MAAT - EDP Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon, PT; and also at CAC Málaga - Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, ES; Caja de Burgos Art Center - CAB, Burgos, ES; CAPC - Coimbra Plastic Arts Circle, Coimbra, PT; Lisbon City Council, Lisbon, PT; State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE), Lisbon, PT; Cleusa Garfinkel Collection, São Paulo, BR; Leal Rios Foundation Collection, Lisbon, PT; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Juan Entrecanales Collection, Madrid, ES; Manuel de Brito Collection, Lisbon, PT; Norlinda Collection and José Lima Collection, São João da Madeira, PT; VdA Collection - Vieira de Almeida, Lisbon, PT.
Statement
Pedro Vaz is a visual artist with more than ten years of career and whose work takes as its starting point hiking expeditions to semi-wild places around the world.
For more than a decade, he has been carrying out pioneering artistic research on landscape and the relationship between man and the natural environment. To produce his series he undertakes demanding and even adventurous expeditions, such as: The full crossing of the Superstition Mountains, in the Arizona Desert, USA, the Amazon Rainforest, in Brazil, the Alps, in the Tour du Mont-Blanc, or the Laurissilva Forest, on Madeira Island. His expeditions can be organized independently, often to critical and inhospitable places, which sometimes have not been visited for decades, as happened in 2016 on the Caminho do Ouro route, in Brazil. They can also be carried out in the context of international residencies, such as Labverde 2016 – Imersão Artística na Amazónia (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa da Amazónia / Manifesta Arte e Cultura), Brazil, or the Onloaded residency, in Phoenix, USA, in 2017. His artistic supports are mainly painting and video installation, which recurrently transform the museum or gallery space into an immersion chamber, evoking the experience of expedition. His production method also includes a phase of studio work, in which memory The experience of the place is transposed into painting and video editing, resulting in magnificent paintings and panoramic projections with sophisticated technological solutions.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
