Pedro Gramaxo (Lisbon, 1989) is a Portuguese contemporary "Land-based" artist working in constructive art, photography and film, analysing and deepening our relation with space, time, memory and altered states of perception.
Pedro has been exhibiting in solo and group shows and public spaces since 2012 from Portugal, Italy, Holland and Bosnia and Herzegovina to Brazil, China, Russia, Argentina, United States, South Korea, Romania, Albania and Iceland. His work has been published in physical and digital magazines and art platforms all over the world.
Graduated in architecture from Lusíada University in Lisbon (2010), Masters in Arts (2012), where his academic education crossbred between Art and Architecture, developing a technical research based practice within the contexts of “art spaces” and the representation of art “contexts”, enhancing the physical aspects of phenomenology.
Channeling his practice of exploring the dualism between bodily presence and experience with altered states of perception, Pedro Gramaxo creates "ultra narratives" with man-made constructive elements in new artistic contexts.
Pedro develops research based on the importance of on-site presence and its relation with ourselves, space, time and memory for higher levels of existence. This research deepens the human consciousness towards Art and "Hyperstates". Starting in 2016 with “HOME Series”, to 2018 “Landscape Series”, to 2021 “Dimension Series” to the present day, developing monument shaped installations in new and natural art contexts.
His distinguished public art projects are: “Bright Hour #1”, in Lisbon at MANPOWER Art Festival (2016), “Landscape#1” at IMINENTE Festival, Lisbon (2018), “Bright Hour #6” at Gaivotas Polo Cultural, Lisbon (2019), Dimension #5 in Vyksa, Russia (2021), Landscape #11 in Reykjavik, Iceland (2021), Graças I, II, II at ESPORO, Portugal (2022).
CV
Education
Graduation in Architecture
Universidade Lusíada (2007-2010)
Masters in Arts and Architecture - (2011-2013) “Site and Art - The cosmic Cube” The relationship between art & Architecture
Universidade Lusíada (2011-2013)
Solo Shows
FLATLANDS
CICA Museum, Seoul/South Korea (2024)
Contrivance# 4
Paviljoen een hat Water, Rotterdam/Netherlands (2022)
Contrivance# 3
Residencia Corazón, Buenos Aires/Argentina (2021)
Dimension #5
Vyksa Museum, Vyksa/Russia (2021)
Contrivance #2
Contemporary Identities, Online (2021)
Bright Hour #6
Polo criativo das Gaivotas, Lisboa/Portugal (2018)
Imaterial
Zaratan Gallery, Lisboa/Portugal (2016)
Contrivance #1
Galeria FBP, Lisboa/Portugal (2014)
Self-Portrait with Landscape
Palácio Braamcamp, Lisboa/Portugal (2014)
Group Shows
MOMAFAD II
Museum of Modern Art for a Day - 2nd Edition, Vlora/Albania (2025)
ABRACADABRA
Curated by Diogo Ramalho
Galeria PLATO, Porto/Portugal (2024)
Ailleurs
Curated by Frederico Vicente
Galeria PLATO, Évora/Portugal (2024)
Portais do Tempo
Curated by Pauline Foessel
Antigos estaleiros da LISNAVE, Almada/Portugal (2024)
2023 Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize
Curated by Philippe Vergne, Tim Marlow, David Elliott, João Paulo Queiroz;
Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa/Portugal (2023)
The first Contemporary Art Museum of Macau
Curated by Felix Vong
Taipa Village Artspace, Macau/China (2023)
Beyond Architecture
Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos/Portugal (2023)
Bienal de Vila Verde
Braga/Portugal (2022)
Hammer-time
Zaratan Gallery, Lisboa/Portugal (2022)
Arquivo
Underdogs Gallery, Lisboa/Portugal (2021)
Control V
Zaratan Gallery, Lisboa/Portugal (2021)
Mostra EIXO
Centro cultural dos Correios de Niterói, Niterói/Brazil (2021)
Postulado Paralelo
GAAT Gallery, Lisboa/Portugal (2021)
Decontexts
Millepiani, Rome/Italy (2021)
Ephemeral Eternal
Underdogs Gallery, Online NFT exhibition (2021)
Dialogue in Winter
Technology and the private sphere/Yanjiao Biennale, Hebei/China (2021 )
Reality Check
Espaço Espelho D’água, Lisboa/Portugal (2021)
CADAF art Fair
ArtiNY booth, Online (2020)
Capiti
Supportive auction - Galeria da Estufa Fria, Lisboa/Portugal (2021)
Colectiva EIXO
Centro Cultural Paschoal Magno, Niterói/Brazil (2019)
IMINENTE Festival
Panorâmico de Monsanto, Lisboa/Portugal (2018)
#Leilão
Zaratan Gallery, Lisboa/Portugal (2018)
Missão Dimix
Tara Gallery, Lisboa/Portugal (2018)
Bairro das Artes
Ordem dos Arquitectos Gallery, Lisboa/Portugal (2018)
Rede ART
Estoril Open - Art Exhibition, Cascais/Portugal (2017)
Man Power’16
International Art Festival, Lisboa/Portugal (2016)
Mostra *16
Portuguese contemporary art show, Lisboa/Portugal (2016)
SHED 76
Portuguese Art, Architecture & design exhibition / SHED, Lisboa/Portugal (2013)
EU
Biblioteca Municipal Orlando Ribeiro, Lisboa/Portugal (2012)
Public Interventions
Landscape #14
Arges/Romania (2024)
Cronoescultura #6
Festival FRACTAL FUNCHAL, Jardim de São Roque, Funchal/Madeira (2024)
Landscape Specimens - Memória Digital
Festival MURO, Estação Ferroviária do Cais do Sodré, Lisboa/Portugal (2023)
Dimensions #6
Chicago/United States (2023)
Graças I, II, III
ESPORO Cultura, Figueiró dos Vinhos - Ansião - Proença a Nova/Portugal (2022)
Landscape #10
Reykjavik/Iceland (2022)
Dimension #5
Vyksa/Russia (2021)
Dimension #2
Setubal/Portugal (2020)
LANDSCAPE Series
Lisboa/Portugal (2018), Sintra/Portugal (2019), Santarém/Portugal (2020), Buenos Aires/Argentina (2021)
PORTRAIT Series
Lisboa/Portugal (2015), Lisboa/Portugal (2016), Sintra/Portugal (2019), Buenos Aires/Argentina (2021)
Curated Shows
Zaratan Artist in Residency
Guest Curator and Mentor, Lisboa/Portugal (2025)
Assorted Landscapes
Mcaninch Arts Center, Chicago/United States (2023)
Normativa do gesto - A paisagem artificial
Casa do Capitão, Lisboa/Portugal (2021)
LEITE DERRAMADO
Zaratan Gallery, Lisboa/Portugal (2021)
Residencies
Cultivamos Cultura
São Luis/Portugal (Aug 2025)
Cleve Carney Museum of Art + College of DuPage
Guest Professor / Artist in Residence
“Site specific and Public Art /
Color theory and Sculpture”
Chicago, IL/United States (May 2023)
SIM
Reykjavik/Iceland (Mar 2022)
Residencia Corazón
Buenos Aires/Argentina (Nov 2021)
VYKSA AIR
Vyksa/Russia (Jul 2021)
Short Films
HYPERSTATE
35 mm film for the Bright Hour Series (2024)
Bright Hour “iso 6400”
Digital video - Confinement archive (2020)
Bright Hour
35 mm film for the Bright Hour Series (2019)
LANDSCAPE Series
Digital on going documentary with the making of the LANDSCAPE Project
Talks / Lectures
Comer com os Olhos
Artist talk at Cortex Frontal Artist Residency, Arraiolos/Portugal (2025)
Toposfera
Galeria Vidro Duplo w/ Colectivo FIELD + Maria Souto Mouro + Francisco Pinto, Porto/Portugal (2025)
Site specific and Public Art
Guest Professor / Artist in Residence at College of DuPage, Classes: 3D Elements + Color theory + Sculpture - Chicago/US (2023)
Space, time and art
Artist talk at Vyksa AIR, Vyksa/Russia (2021)
Public Art - Cities of the future
"Retirement call" Program - Espaço Espelho D’água, Lisboa/Portugal (2020)
Awards / Grants
Sovereign Portuguese art Prize - Shotlisted
Sociedade Nacional Belas Artes, Lisboa/Portugal (2023)
Cleve Carney Museum of Art - Artist Grant
"Landscape Project", Chicago/US (2023)
Compete2020 - Garantir Cultura
"Landscape Project" (2021)
Honorable Mention OA
"Blue buildings" - urban intervention,
Ordem Arquitectos de Portugal (2018)
Publications / Press
Landscape Stories Magazine (IT) / Das Artes Magazine (BR) / VOGUE Magazine (PT) / Observador (PT) / Compulsive Contents -interview (UK) / Jornal I online - interview (PT) / Umbigo Magazine - interview (PT) / Shifter (PT) / Magnetica Magazine - interview (PT) / Contemporary Identities (IR) / Conceptual Projects - interview (UK) / Al-tiba9 (ES) / Artecapital (PT) / Art Uzel (RU) / Ramona (AR) / Time Out - interview (PT) / ESPORO (PT) / Gazeta do Interior (PT) / Gerador - interview (PT) / SIM (IC) / Jornal de Leiria (PT) / The Bold Modern - interview (ES) / ArtConnect Magazine - Interview (UK) / The Chicago Courier (US) / Time Out (PT) / Azar Magazine (PT) / Jornal Almadense (PT) / Jornal S/TÍTULO (PT) / Diário de Notícias da Madeira (PT) / PLATO - Interview (PT) / Curatory Magazine (UK) - Interview / Festival MURO 23 (PT) / Paraíso HOJE - Portuguese Pavillion, Architecture Venice Biennale 25 (PT)
