João Vasco Paiva: Bio

João Vasco Paiva (Coimbra, 1979) vive em Hong Kong desde 2006. Obteve uma Licenciatura em Artes Plásticas pela ESAP, Porto e um Master of Fine Arts na School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Tem exposto intensivamente desde 2008, destacando-se as exposições Dormant Fabric, Counter Space, Zurich ( 2015); Unlimited, MAAP, Brisbane (2015); Encounters, Art Basel Hong Kong ( 2015), Landseasky, Artsonje Center, Seoul (2014); The Part in the Story, Witte de With, Roterdão (2014); Anno Zero, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlim; Living as Art Form, Independent Curators International, Nova Iorque, EUA (2013); Decelarator, European House of Art of Upper Bavaria, Freising (2013); Near and Elsewhere,  Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (2013); Objects Encrypted, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong (2013); Vladivostok Biennale, Vladivostok (2013); Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, Londres(2012); The 4th Sate of Water, C.o.C.A., Torun; What should I do to live your life, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2012); The Creators Project, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing (2011); Nuits Sonores, Musée de Art Contemporaine de Lyon (2011)); Decelarator, Videospace, Budapeste (2011); Allan Nederpelt Gallery, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque (2011); Palimpseptic, Saamlung Gallery, Hong Kong (2011); Forced Empathy - Anchored Monument I, Experimenta, Hong Kong (2011); Moscow International Young Art Biennial, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscovo (2010); The Conditional Form of the Real, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscovo (2010); Mostra de Video Arte, SESC São Paulo, Campinas (2010), entre outras. Colaborou com músicos como Zbigniew Karkowsky, Arto Lindsay e Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten). Foi bolseiro da Fundação Oriente de 2006 a 2008. Leccionou na City University of Hong Kong e fez apresentações na American University of Sharjah (Architecture Department) e na Goldsmiths University, foi artista residente na City of Zurich Artist-In-Residence Programme em colaboração com a Zurich University of the Arts.