Pedro Vaz

Pedro Vaz lives and works in Lisbon. His artistic practice, mostly resulting in painting and video-installations, is based on research about the landscape. It Is conducted through journeys and solitary expeditions, in an approach, he defines as ‘lived landscape’. He develops projects in which he tries to keep the awareness that landscape, as represented in art, is but a construction dependent on humankind’s perception of itself as separate from nature.

Some of the most recent include Amazonas, Brazil, or Superstition Mountains, USA. Painting Degree (2006) at Faculdade de Belas Artes Universidade Lisboa. He has presented projects in Europe, USA, Brazil and Mexico, in also museums such as the MAAT, Lisbon, the Kreeger Museum, USA and Arquipélago – Center for Contemporary Arts, São Miguel, Azores. The Newspaper Público highlighted in 2018 the individual exhibition Azimute, at Gallery 111, as the Top 10 of the Portuguese exhibitions of that year.

Last update: October 8th, 2019