Vasco Araújo completed the course in advanced photography at the Maumaus School of Visual Arts at the Lisbon School of Visual Arts and Photography, and graduated with a major in Sculpture from the Fine Arts Faculty at Lisbon University, the city where he lives and works. Vasco Araújo is a multidisciplinary artist who develops his own intimate, intense poetics based on the reflection that his pieces generate around the identity of the subject and their relationship with the context and surroundings. His work combines photography, installation, video, performance and lyrical singing, a field in which he is also active. His artistic output seeks to inspire reflection about systems for depicting the world and its fragility, focusing on the identity of the subject and governing policies. The logic structuring his artistic poetics has to do with the representation of drama and its mirror expression of the phenomena of reality.
Vasco Araújo has taken part in various solo and group exhibitions. These include the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Rome, 1999); ‘Melodrama’ at the Atrium – Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country (2002), the Palace of the Counts of Gabia (Granada, 2002), Vigo Contemporary Art Museum (2010), ‘Hereditas’ [Heritage] at Caramulo Museum (Portugal, 2006), ‘Botanics’ at Lisbon Contemporary Art Museum (2014) and, more recently, ‘Potestad’ [Power] at the Latin-American Art Museum in Buenos Aires (2015) and ‘E daqueles que nada sabemos’ at the Art School in Coimbra (Portugal, 2016).
Vasco Araújo completed the course in advanced photography at the Maumaus School of Visual Arts at the Lisbon School of Visual Arts and Photography, and graduated with a major in Sculpture from the Fine Arts Faculty at Lisbon University, the city where he lives and works. Vasco Araújo is a multidisciplinary artist who develops his own intimate, intense poetics based on the reflection that his pieces generate around the identity of the subject and their relationship with the context and surroundings. His work combines photography, installation, video, performance and lyrical singing, a field in which he is also active. His artistic output seeks to inspire reflection about systems for depicting the world and its fragility, focusing on the identity of the subject and governing policies. The logic structuring his artistic poetics has to do with the representation of drama and its mirror expression of the phenomena of reality.
Vasco Araújo has taken part in various solo and group exhibitions. These include the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Rome, 1999); ‘Melodrama’ at the Atrium – Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country (2002), the Palace of the Counts of Gabia (Granada, 2002), Vigo Contemporary Art Museum (2010), ‘Hereditas’ [Heritage] at Caramulo Museum (Portugal, 2006), ‘Botanics’ at Lisbon Contemporary Art Museum (2014) and, more recently, ‘Potestad’ [Power] at the Latin-American Art Museum in Buenos Aires (2015) and ‘E daqueles que nada sabemos’ at the Art School in Coimbra (Portugal, 2016).