Sebastião Paz Costa

Sebastião Paz Costa’s works draw from queer existence, allowing for the fleeting moment to become an object of prolonged contemplation. Working across various mediums, painting is used as a dance that releases, expands, intensifies and intertwines. A fascination with the body takes form in autobiographical figures that often seem relaxed. Drawings turn into paintings, where time transcends linearity through an amalgamation of feelings and memories, giving shape to intensified versions of reality. Surfaces are brushed with thoughtful color pallets and repetitive gestures, conversations with the self open up hidden desires, an interplay between light and shadow.

Sebastião Paz Costa (b. 1995 in Porto, Portugal) is an artist working with painting and drawing. He completed his BFA in Fine Arts - Multimedia in 2019 at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. He’s currently based in Esposende.

Fine Arts, Multimedia - Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto

Solo / Two Person Shows:

2023 Out Of The Invisible, Galeria Mola, Braga PT

2023 Freedom Is Your Birth Right, Osso & Adda, Porto PT

2019 Open Archive, Galeria Cozinha FBAUP, Porto PT

2015 Estou a Morrer Por Dentro, Café Avesso, Esposende PT

Group Shows (selected):

2023 Osso Artisans, Porto PT

2022 Coletivo Corrente de Ar II, Lisboa PT

2021 Open Studio, Forjães PT

2021 Corpo: Medium da Criação Artística, Galeria Cobalto, Porto PT

2021 Give Me Truth! Complicities, Casa Das Artes, Porto PT

2019 Imagem Contextualizada, Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa, Lisboa PT

2019 Cruzamento 150, Porto PT

2019 Tem De Ser? (Exposição Finalista), Museu FBAUP, Porto PT

2018 Einblick Ausblick, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel DE

2018 As Fotografias e o Resto, Museu FBAUP, Porto PT

2017 Género na Arte. Corpo, Sexualidade, Identidade, Resistência, MNAC, Lisboa PT

2017 DATA, Casa da Imagem, Gaia PT

2017 Estereo.Utopias, Galeria Oitavo, Porto PT