Hugo Canoilas

Hugo Canoilas (Lisbon, 1977) lives and works in Vienna. He studied Fine Arts at the School of Art and Design, Caldas da Rainha, and at the Royal College of Art, London. Her solo exhibitions include: Phantasmagoria, CAV- Centro de Artes Visuais; Coimbra, 2023; Moldada na escuridão, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2022); Under the volcano, Sonae Art Cycles, MNAC, Lisboa (2016). Workplace Gallery, London (2016); Passos dias a voar, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto (2015); The sun in darkness, Weingruell Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany (2015); Mirror Sea, Discoveries section with Workplace Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong (2014); Fierce: Riding the wave fiercely with no fear, Workplace Gallery, London (2013). Group exhibitions include: Constructing Paradise, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York (2017); A foreign encounter, Galerie FOE 156, Munich, Germany (2015); Colore Uniti, Vienna Fair, Wien Messe, Vienna (2015); Arbeiter kehrt Heim, Franz Josefs Kai 3, 1010 Vienna (2014). His works are included in the Samling Lenikus collection (Austria), Budapest Gallery (Hungary), Caixa Geral de Depósitos, PLMJ Foundation, among others.