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Foto: Klaus Pichler
Hugo Canoilas
Foto: Klaus Pichler
Foto: Klaus Pichler

Hugo Canoilas

geb. 1977 in Lissabon, Portugal
https://www.martinjanda.at/de/kuenstler/hugo-canoilas/werke/

lebt und arbeitet in Wien / lives and works in Vienna (AT)

1995/2001 Hons B.A. in ESAD, Caldas da Rainha (PT)
2004/2006 Master in Painting, Royal College of Art, London (UK)


Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) / Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2021
Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (PT)

2020
Cnidarian Polyps Repaired by the Eye of the Observer, Serralves Museum, Porto (PT)
Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize 2020, mumok, Vienna (AT)

2018
Oh spider, big spider! Do you bring the cure spider?, Galeria Quadrado Azul Gallery, Lisbon (PT)

2017
Can it be that it was all so simple then, Galeria Collicaligreggi, Catania (IT)

2016
Unfaithful to Daydreams, Workplace London, Mayfair, London (UK)
I’ll devour your eyes, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna (AT)

2012
Paradise Birds, 30th São Paulo Biennial – A iminência das poéticas (curated by Luiz Perez Oramas, Tobi Maier, André Severo and Isabela Villanueva), Museum Casa do Bandeirante, São Paulo (BR) (catalogue and publication)

2013
Ve.sch, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg (LU)
Magma, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (UK)


Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) / Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2020
satellite ll, Galerie Martin Janda im Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna (AT)
Dissonances (curated by Adelaide Ginga and Emília Tavares), Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon (PT)
Chaos and Rythm #1 (curated by Nuno Faria), José de Guimarães International Arts Centre, Guimarães (PT)

2019
Sequences Real Time Art Festival (curated by Oliver Basciano), Rejkavik Arts Festival, Reikjavik (IS)
Negative Hands, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon (PT)

2017
Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017 (curated by Luca Lo Pinto), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
Constructing Paradise, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York (USA)

2015
Destination Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
Ciao!, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania (IT)
Lesen (curated by Ingeborg Strobl), Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (AT) (catalogue)

2014
When elephants come marching in (curated by Mark Kremer), De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
Wildwuchs: in den Straßen und an den Körpern (curated by Vitus Weh), Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag (AT)

2010
Originalfunktional (curated by Stefan Bidner), Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna (AT)
Personal freedom, Bienal PortugalArte10 (curated by Johannes Vanderbeek), Pavilhão de Portugal, Lisbon (PT)


Preise / Awards
2020
Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize 2020, Vienna (AT)

2002
1st prize, Prémio Francisco Wandschneider Award, ANJE, Porto (PT)

2001
1st prize for photography, Jov’ arte, Loures (PT)


Public Collections
Artothek des Bundes im Belvedere 21, Museum Belvedere, Vienna (AT)
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
EGEAC/ City of Lisbon, Lisbon, (PT)
Bank of Spain, Madrid (ES)
Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
CCB, Belém Cultural Center, Lisbon (PT)
Caixa Geral de Depósitos Collection, Lisbon (PT)
EDP Collection, Lisbon (PT)
Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna (AT)
Budapest GalÉria, Budapest (HU)
ANJE – Associação de Jovens Empresários Collection, Porto (PT)
PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
Ficarra Town Hall, Ficarra (IT)
Loures Town Hall, Loures (PT)
Person TypeKünstler