Pedro Besugo

Pedro Besugo, born in Setúbal, 1971, lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.

From an early age onwards, Besugo has always managed to combine his two passions: art and travel. Won a first prize drawing competition when he was seven and bought his first camera at the age of ten. As a teenager he begins to hitchhike throughout Europe sleeping in parks, train stations, living in squats with different communities including the Hare Krishnas and experimenting with street art. This taste for the extreme leads him to be selected and win the International Survivor reality tv show competition in Panama in 2001, where contestants are stranded on a remote island try to survive while facing challenging tasks.

All of these travels inform greatly his art practice. His multilayered paintings are a juxtaposed record of travel memories, maps, network lines, coordinates, city landmarks, architecture and transit spaces. His technique blends a web of abstract drawing, painting, collage, and ink.

In 1986, Besugo enters the secondary school Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon - where he later teaches in the Audiovisual Image and Communication Department from 2007 to 2010. In 2001 he earns a bachelor’s degree in fine arts - Sculpture, from the...

Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa. Master of Fine Arts and Education
Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa, FBAUL. Bachelor of Fine Arts - Sculpture
School of Fine Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha, ESAD.CR. Student Product Design Ceramics
AR.CO, Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Lisboa. Painting II
AR.CO, Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Lisboa. Advanced Course in Photography
Escola Artística António Arroio, Lisboa. High School Diploma in Audiovisual Image and Communication

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 - Invisible Gateway, Iaohin Gallery, Macau, China
2011 - In Transit, Galeria 57, Macau, China
2010 - Resurrection, Miguel Costa Cabral Oficina, Porto, Portugal
2010 - Drawings in Translation, Eye of Gyre Gallery. The exihibition was part of the 150 years Celebration Portugal-Japan Relations, Tokyo, Japan
2010 - Changing Machiya, Arton Art Gallery. The exihibition was part of the 150 years Celebration Portugal-Japan Relations, Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2009 - Shool Maps Box, 9 arte Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
2008 - Intercities, Museum Michel Giacometti, Setúbal, Portugal
2007 - Single Houses, Palpura Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal 2007 - Unknown Places, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbo, Portugal
2005 - Lx Frame, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
2003 - Puzzles, 9arte Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
2002 - Musicais, Lisboa, Portugal
1995 - Origens, Setúbal, Portugal
1994 - Casa da Cultura de Sacavém, Loures, Portugal
1994 - Galeria Municipal do Barreiro, Barreiro, Portugal
1993 - Conventual Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal
1991 - Setarte, Setúbal, Portugal