BIOGRAPHY
PEDRO CALAPEZ
Born 1953, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
EDUCATION
1976-81: University of Fine Arts Lisbon, BA, Painting
1972-75: Arts Foundation Course, National Fine Arts Association, Lisbon
1969-74: Civil Engineering Technical Studies, University of Lisbon
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2012: “Máximo Ramos Graphic Arts Award”, Ferrol, Spain
2005: “National Graphic Arts Award”, National Chalcography, Royal Fine Arts
Academy, Madrid, Spain
2005: “AICA Award” (International Association of Art Critics, Portuguese Branch).
2001: “EDP Painting Award”, Lisbon
1994: “Drawing Award”, Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, Majorca, Spain.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018:
“EYE to EYE”, House Museum - Medeiros e Almeida Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal
“BoPeep”, Sismógrafo, Porto, Portugal
“Lieux inhabitables”, Centre Culturel Portugais Camões, Luxembourg
“Suddenly in the night I wake up”, Art Gallery in Guarda City Theatre, Portugal
“Drawing and construction”, João Esteves de Oliveira Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
“Uninhabitable places”, Camões Portuguese Cultural Centre, Luxembourg
2016: “A shadow secret”, Carmona Costa Foundation, Lisbon
2013: “There is only drawing”, Luís Seoane Foundation, A Coruña, Spain
2012: “Dark skies”, Paula Rego Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
2011: “Kickflip”, PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon
2009: “White and neutral clarity”, Contemporary Art Centre Casa da Cerca, Almada,
Portugal
2005: “Painting places”, CAB-Burgos Bank Art Centre, Burgos, Spain
2005: “ground zero”, CGAC-Galicia Contemporary Art Centre, Santiago de
Compostela, Spain
2004: “Selected works 1992-2004”, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
2002: “Madre Agua”, MEIAC - Contemporary Art Museum, Badajoz and CAAC -
Andalucia Contemporary Art Centre, Seville, Spain
Many other solo exhibitions since 1982 in Museums and Art Galleries in Portugal and abroad.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018: “Wanderings / BlackBox”, Caramulo Museum, Caramulo, Portugal
2017: “Quote/Unquote”. MAAT Museum, Lisbon
2015: “EuroScope”(BEI Collection), Cercle Cité, Luxembourg
2016: “Backstories”, FASVS Museum, Lisbon and Mudas, Madeira Contemporary Art
Museum, Portugal
2011: “The collection”, Barrié Foundation, A Coruña, Spain
2010: “It’s not my fault”, Berardo Museum, Lisbon
2009: “The collection”, Serralves Museum, Oporto, Portugal
2007: “Maps, cosmogonies and reference points”, CGAC-Galician Centre for
Contemporary, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2006: Beaufort Outside - Inside, Contemporary Art Triennial, PMMK Museum,
Ostende, Belgium
2005: “From zero to 2005. Insights on Portuguese art”, Marcelino Botín Foundation,
Santander, Spain
2001: “EDP. ART”, Serralves Museum, Oporto, Portugal
1999: Days of dark and light, Bonn Fine Art Museum, Bonn, Germany
Many other group exhibitions since 1975.
SELECTED COMMISSION PROJECTS
2017: Theatre Set design for Almada City Theatre, Almada, Portugal
2012: Glass printed panels for new Turbine Hall at Picote Dam, EDP, Portuguese
Electricity Company, Portugal
2010: Glass panels for Alves Martins Secondary School façades, Viseu, Portugal
2007: Main doors and façade bronze panels for the Holy Trinity Church, Fátima,
Portugal
2006: “Four seasons”, set of 35 acrylic painted aluminium panels for S. Francisco
Xavier Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal
2005: “Snow of thorns”, set of 17 acrylic painted aluminium panels for Lady of the
Snow’s Chapel at Ílhavo Public Library, Ílhavo, Portugal
2005: “Woods”, Theatre Curtain for Almada City Theatre, Almada, Portugal
2002: “Undisclosed ornament”, set of 20 acrylic painted aluminium panels for
Geronimo’s Monastery, Lisbon, Portugal
1998: Design of city square with stone drawings sidewalks for EXPO 98, International
Lisbon Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal
1998: “Jungle”, Ceramic panel for Lisbon Subway Station (Olaias), Lisbon, Portugal
1997: Painted Ceiling for City Hall, Lisbon, Portugal