Pedro Liñares (1988 ) lives and works between Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro. He studied Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was a scholarship student at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. He holds a master's degree in Multimedia Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His work explores, through a non-narrative approach, how visual information can be repurposed to create new meanings by examining the relationships between everyday experiences and painting. His research suggests glimpses of contemporary reality, highlighting its complexity and the ambiguity of meanings from an intimate and personal perspective. The opaque colors, the diffused light and the layers worn away by the archaeological gesture, which makes images emerge from the background of the painting, demonstrate the artist's interest in what is rare and ancient. Liñares' method involves the development of multiple drawings and studies, which are later translated onto the canvass. Through addition, accumulation, and subtraction, each painting transforms until the original image disappears. What remains are visual echoes of memory, sometimes vivid, sometimes faint.
Education
2017 - 2020 - Master's in Multimedia Art, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 - 2017 - Bachelor's in Visual Arts, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016 - 2017 - "Poetic Immersions," Escola sem sítio / Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014 - 2016 - Foundation Scholarship in Visual Arts, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014 - 2015 - Electronic Sound Factory at the Villa-Lobos School of Music, UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2007 - 2011 - Bachelor's in International Relations, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Solo shows
Atlas, Hew Hood Gallery, Londres, 2024
Relicário, Kubik Gallery, Porto, 2024
Herbário, Painters Painting Paintings, Lisboa, 2025
Estudos, Andrea Festa Gallery, Rome, 2025
Selected Group Shows
Fundamentação, EAV Parque Lage , Rio de Janeiro, 2015
Ilha, Casa Kolor, Rio de Janeiro, 2015
Imersões, Casa França-Brasil , Rio de Janeiro, 2016
SGPCM—Belas-Artes prize show, Lisbon, 2019
I will take the Risk, Galeria Azan, Lisbon, 2020
Decomposição e fetiche, Vivian Caccuri Studio, Rio de Janeiro, 2022 (Co-curated with Carolina Carreteiro)
Coppistrasse ,Westphalians Studio, Berlin, 2022
Pintura sem fim, Brotéria, Lisbon, 2023
Relógio de Sol, Galeria PLATO, Évora, Portugal, 2023
Último Andar, Alegria 126, Lisbon, 2024 (Co-curated with Francisca Portugal)
Shadows of Memory, Hew Hood Gallery, London, 2024
Cacto-Orquídea , Factory, Lisbon , 2024 (Co-curated with Ana Grebler)
Pequenas notas sobre figuração II, Monitor Gallery, Lisbon, 2024
Nunca se está sozinho, Galeria 111, Lisboa, 2024
Chimera, Alina Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, 2024
Labirinto e vertigem, Gruta, São Paulo, 2025
Luminares, Galeria Refresco , Rio de Janeiro , 2026
Fairs
Roma Arte Nuovula, Andrea Festa Gallery, Rome, 2025
SP Arte, LAMB Gallery, Sao Paulo, 2025
Miart, Andrea Festa Gallery, Milan, 2026