Pedro Vaz

Pedro Vaz (Maputo, 1977) graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2006. He lives and works in Lisbon. His practice investigates the relationship between human presence and the natural world, understanding landscape as a physical and ecological condition shaped over time. He works across painting, sculpture and video, often articulated in installations conceived in dialogue with the exhibition space. His projects emerge from extended journeys and periods of immersion in largely uninhabited environments. Vaz has developed work in diverse ecosystems, from the Amazon and the Brazilian Atlantic Forest to the Atacama Desert in the Andes and the Superstition Mountains in Arizona, as well as the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Himalayas. Direct physical engagement with each place precedes the construction of the image, and the works produced in the studio translate lived experience into visual form. Recent solo exhibitions include Becoming Mountain (The Orobie Biennial, GAMeC, Bergamo, 2025), Beginner’s Mind (Document Space, Chicago, 2025) and Uma pedra, um ser (Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon, 2024). In 2025, he received the FLAD Drawing Prize.

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