ABOUT
BIOGRAPHY
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 Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa; followed by a Master of Fine Arts and Education from the Universidade Lusófona in Lisboa in 2011.
In 2010 he exhibits at Arton Art Gallery, The Museum of Kyoto, and in Eye of Gyre Gallery, in Tokyo, Japan, representing a series for the 150 º Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Commerce between Portugal and Japan.
Besugo’s work is featured in private and public collections including:
Fundação Oriente, Macau, China; Western Union Philippines for the Art Collection of the Embassies in the Countries of Asia Pacific, Gil Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal; Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo; Private Bank Atlântico, Lisboa, Portugal; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon, Portugal; Pro Dignitate, Lisboa, Portugal; Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti, Setúbal, Portugal; Valormed, Lisbon, Portugal; Pfizer, Anderlecht, Belgium; Garrigues, Lisbon, Portugal; and Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicaçoes, Lisbon, Portugal.
EDUCATION
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
2023 - Reverso, Cisterna Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal 2022 - Blue Grid, Atmosfera M, Lisbon, Portugal
- Blue Grid, Casa da Cultura de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal 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, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - Intercities, Museum Michel Giacometti, Setúbal, Portugal
2007 - Single Houses, Palpura Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2007 - Unknown Places, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 - Lx Frame, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 - Puzzles, 9arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2002 - Musicais, Lisbon, 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
GROUP EXHITIONS
2023 - JustLX – Lisboa Contemporary Art Fair, Cisterna Galeria, Lisboa, Portugal 2021 - Artweek Lisboa´21, Casa70, Lisboa, Portugal 2020 - Quinta na Casa, Casa70, Lisboa, Portugal 2013 - AFA Autumn Salon, Casa Garden, Macau, China 2012 - Em Particular, 9arte, Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 - Art Beijing Art Fair, Gallery 57, Aragon Gallery, Beijin, China 2012 - Sexto Sentido, Gallery 57, Macau, China 2011 - ARTM, Venetian, Gallery 57, Macau, China 2010 - Entrada Livre, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2010 - Shanghai Art Fair, Gallery 57, Shanghai, China
2009 - 12/9, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2009 - Collective Exhibition September, Gallery 57, Leiria, Portugal 2009 - Shanghai Art Fair, Gallery 57, Shanghai, China 2009 - Kunstart, Bolzano Art Fair 09, Galeria 57, Bolzano, Itália
2009 - March Collective Exhibition, Galeria 57, Leiria 2008 - 9 Artists Exhibition, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2008 - On Europe 1. Biennial International Prize Vespeira IX Montijo, Portugal 2008 - April Group Exhibition, Gallery 57, Leiria, Portugal
2003 - Arte +, 9arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 - 9arte Group Exhibition December, Hestia, Porto, Portugal 2003 - Banco de Portugal, Portugal, Lisbon
2002 - December Group Exhibition, 9arte Gallery, Lisbon
2002 - December Group Exhibition, 9arte Gallery - Hestia, Porto, Portugal
2002 - Group Exhibition Arte Y Oficina Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal 2000 - Fine Art Student Finalist Exhibiition, Fábrica da Pólvora, Oeiras, Portugal 2000 - Escultura na Praça 2000, Lisbon City Hall, Sala do Risco, Lisbon, Portugal 1994 - Christmas Exhibition 94, Arte Y Oficina Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal
1994 - VIII Mostra Anual de Arte na Anunciada, Setúbal, Portugal 1994 - Festas Bocagianas 94 - Salão Nobre da Câmara Municipal de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal 1994 - Artes Y Outros Ofícios, Arte Y Oficina Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal
1994 - Homenagem a Álvaro Perdigão – Conventual Gallery, Setúbal 1994 - Evocação a Bocage, Casa Bocage, Setúbal, Portugal 1994 - Semana da Juventude CUPE, Barreiro, Portugal 1993 - Arte 93, Primeiro Aniversário CUPE, Barreiro, Portugal 1992 - Conventual Art Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal 1992 - VI Mostra Anual de Arte na Anunciada, Setúbal, Portugal
1991 - II Feira do Livro, Biblioteca Municipal, Palmela, Portugal 1991 - VI Salão de Primavera, Casino Estoril Art Gallery, Estoril, Portugal 1991 - Criarte Artists Exhibition, Setúbal, Portugal
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal 1989 - II Salão Juvenil de Artes e Letras, Barreiro, Portugal
AWARDS
2000 - Sculpture Square 2000, Lisbon City Hall, Lisbon, Portugal. 1st Prize
1991 - Descobre a Tua Terra, Palmela, Portugal. Photography Competition. Photography - 1st Prize
1991 - Criarte, Setúbal, Portugal. Bronze Medal
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal. Drawing - 1st Prize
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal. Drawing - 2nd Prize
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal. Photography - 1st Prize
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal. Photography - 3rd Prize
1989 - II Salão Juvenil de Artes e Letras. Drawing Competition, Barreiro, Portugal.
Drawing - 2nd Prize
COLLECTIONS
2020 - Brooklyn Art Library, NYC, USA
2019 - Fundação Oriente, Macau, China
2013 - Western Union Philippines for the Art Collection of
the Embassies in the Countries of Asia Pacific, represented
in; Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Macau
2010 - Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2009 - Private Bank Atlântico, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti, Setúbal, Portugal
2008 - Valormed, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 - Garrigues, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 - Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicaçoes, Lisbon, Portugal
OTHERS
2004 - Assistant to José Manuel Ciria, “O Sonho de Lisboa”, António Prates Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2000 - Sculpture assistant to the International Symposium of Sculpture in Stone, Cantanhede, Portugal
1994 - Ethnic Painting Workshop - Arte y Oficina Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal
LINKS
Reverso, Cisterna Galeria
Setúbal Mais
This Is Not A White Cube, Blue Grid Solo Show
Article in Upmagazine TAP
The New York Optimist
Article in Macau Closer
Article in Ponto Final Macau
Article Jornal Tribuna de Macau
Drawings in tranlation Tokyo Dayori
Changing Machiya Arton Art Gallery
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 Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa; followed by a Master of Fine Arts and Education from the Universidade Lusófona in Lisboa in 2011.
In 2010 he exhibits at Arton Art Gallery, The Museum of Kyoto, and in Eye of Gyre Gallery, in Tokyo, Japan, representing a series for the 150 º Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Commerce between Portugal and Japan.
Besugo’s work is featured in private and public collections including:
Fundação Oriente, Macau, China; Western Union Philippines for the Art Collection of the Embassies in the Countries of Asia Pacific, Gil Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal; Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo; Private Bank Atlântico, Lisboa, Portugal; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon, Portugal; Pro Dignitate, Lisboa, Portugal; Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti, Setúbal, Portugal; Valormed, Lisbon, Portugal; Pfizer, Anderlecht, Belgium; Garrigues, Lisbon, Portugal; and Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicaçoes, Lisbon, Portugal.
EDUCATION
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
2023 - Reverso, Cisterna Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal 2022 - Blue Grid, Atmosfera M, Lisbon, Portugal
- Blue Grid, Casa da Cultura de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal 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, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - Intercities, Museum Michel Giacometti, Setúbal, Portugal
2007 - Single Houses, Palpura Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2007 - Unknown Places, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 - Lx Frame, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 - Puzzles, 9arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2002 - Musicais, Lisbon, 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
GROUP EXHITIONS
2023 - JustLX – Lisboa Contemporary Art Fair, Cisterna Galeria, Lisboa, Portugal 2021 - Artweek Lisboa´21, Casa70, Lisboa, Portugal 2020 - Quinta na Casa, Casa70, Lisboa, Portugal 2013 - AFA Autumn Salon, Casa Garden, Macau, China 2012 - Em Particular, 9arte, Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 - Art Beijing Art Fair, Gallery 57, Aragon Gallery, Beijin, China 2012 - Sexto Sentido, Gallery 57, Macau, China 2011 - ARTM, Venetian, Gallery 57, Macau, China 2010 - Entrada Livre, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2010 - Shanghai Art Fair, Gallery 57, Shanghai, China
2009 - 12/9, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2009 - Collective Exhibition September, Gallery 57, Leiria, Portugal 2009 - Shanghai Art Fair, Gallery 57, Shanghai, China 2009 - Kunstart, Bolzano Art Fair 09, Galeria 57, Bolzano, Itália
2009 - March Collective Exhibition, Galeria 57, Leiria 2008 - 9 Artists Exhibition, 9 Arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2008 - On Europe 1. Biennial International Prize Vespeira IX Montijo, Portugal 2008 - April Group Exhibition, Gallery 57, Leiria, Portugal
2003 - Arte +, 9arte Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 - 9arte Group Exhibition December, Hestia, Porto, Portugal 2003 - Banco de Portugal, Portugal, Lisbon
2002 - December Group Exhibition, 9arte Gallery, Lisbon
2002 - December Group Exhibition, 9arte Gallery - Hestia, Porto, Portugal
2002 - Group Exhibition Arte Y Oficina Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal 2000 - Fine Art Student Finalist Exhibiition, Fábrica da Pólvora, Oeiras, Portugal 2000 - Escultura na Praça 2000, Lisbon City Hall, Sala do Risco, Lisbon, Portugal 1994 - Christmas Exhibition 94, Arte Y Oficina Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal
1994 - VIII Mostra Anual de Arte na Anunciada, Setúbal, Portugal 1994 - Festas Bocagianas 94 - Salão Nobre da Câmara Municipal de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal 1994 - Artes Y Outros Ofícios, Arte Y Oficina Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal
1994 - Homenagem a Álvaro Perdigão – Conventual Gallery, Setúbal 1994 - Evocação a Bocage, Casa Bocage, Setúbal, Portugal 1994 - Semana da Juventude CUPE, Barreiro, Portugal 1993 - Arte 93, Primeiro Aniversário CUPE, Barreiro, Portugal 1992 - Conventual Art Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal 1992 - VI Mostra Anual de Arte na Anunciada, Setúbal, Portugal
1991 - II Feira do Livro, Biblioteca Municipal, Palmela, Portugal 1991 - VI Salão de Primavera, Casino Estoril Art Gallery, Estoril, Portugal 1991 - Criarte Artists Exhibition, Setúbal, Portugal
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal 1989 - II Salão Juvenil de Artes e Letras, Barreiro, Portugal
AWARDS
2000 - Sculpture Square 2000, Lisbon City Hall, Lisbon, Portugal. 1st Prize
1991 - Descobre a Tua Terra, Palmela, Portugal. Photography Competition. Photography - 1st Prize
1991 - Criarte, Setúbal, Portugal. Bronze Medal
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal. Drawing - 1st Prize
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal. Drawing - 2nd Prize
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal. Photography - 1st Prize
1990 - Drawing and Photography IFL, Setúbal, Portugal. Photography - 3rd Prize
1989 - II Salão Juvenil de Artes e Letras. Drawing Competition, Barreiro, Portugal.
Drawing - 2nd Prize
COLLECTIONS
2020 - Brooklyn Art Library, NYC, USA
2019 - Fundação Oriente, Macau, China
2013 - Western Union Philippines for the Art Collection of
the Embassies in the Countries of Asia Pacific, represented
in; Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Macau
2010 - Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2009 - Private Bank Atlântico, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti, Setúbal, Portugal
2008 - Valormed, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 - Garrigues, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 - Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicaçoes, Lisbon, Portugal
OTHERS
2004 - Assistant to José Manuel Ciria, “O Sonho de Lisboa”, António Prates Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2000 - Sculpture assistant to the International Symposium of Sculpture in Stone, Cantanhede, Portugal
1994 - Ethnic Painting Workshop - Arte y Oficina Gallery, Setúbal, Portugal
LINKS
Reverso, Cisterna Galeria
Setúbal Mais
This Is Not A White Cube, Blue Grid Solo Show
Article in Upmagazine TAP
The New York Optimist
Article in Macau Closer
Article in Ponto Final Macau
Article Jornal Tribuna de Macau
Drawings in tranlation Tokyo Dayori
Changing Machiya Arton Art Gallery