João Vasco Paiva received a BFA from the Escola Superior Artistica do Porto in 2004 and an MFA in Creative Media from the City University of Hong Kong in 2008.

[4] His practice involves systematically documenting, analysing and abstracting them to create a process-driven composition that is simultaneously an artwork, which ultimately explores how urban spaces may evoke aesthetic production as well as informative truths.

[5] Though intrinsically tied to Hong Kong, Paiva’s work has been exhibited widely at the Witte de With, Rotterdam;[6] Artsonje, Seoul;[7] OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai;[8] Orient Foundation, Macau[9] and Counter Space, Zurich[10] amongst other locations.

In 2015, Paiva’s installation ‘Mausoleum’ (2015) – a towering composition of marketplace Styrofoam boxes cast in stone resin – was selected for the Encounters section of Art Basel Hong Kong.

[12] Other notable exhibitions in recent years include ‘Benches, Stairs, Ramps, Ledges, Ground’ in Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York (2016)[13] and ‘CARGO’ at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Museu do Chiado, Lisbon (2016).