João Vasco Paiva

1979
born in Coimbra, Portugal
Lives and works in Hong Kong

Education

2004
Fine Arts Degree, E.S.A.P. , Porto, Portugal

2008
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media, School of Creative Media,
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Selected Exhibitions/Performances

2011
Unit for Sound Practice Research, Goldsmiths University,
London, United Kingdom;
New Media Archeology, Videotage, Hong Kong;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Writing of the Wall, Kunsthalle Kowloon, ArtHK 2011, Hong Kong ;
New Media Archeology, Videotage, ArtHK 2011, Hong Kong;
Solo-Forced Empathy, Experimenta, Hong Kong;
Imaginary Belongings, Museu Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal;
AllanNederpelt Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.;
Sur La Montagne, Berlin, Germany;
Videospace, Budapest, Hungary;
Meet Factory, Prague, Czeck Republic;
Superb Meaningless Invention, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong;
Arts Birthday, RadioZero, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Amsterdam;
Writing Machine Collective, Y-Square, Hong Kong;

2010
Experimenta Mostra de Video Arte, SESC Sao Paulo, Campinas, Brazil;
Against Easy Listening, 1a Space, Hong Kong;
City with a Broken Sky, Agnes B. Theatre, Hong Kong Art
Center, Hong Kong;
The Creators Project, 798 Space, Beijing, China;
Cross City Experience, Brisbane Emerging Art, Brisbane, Australia;
Solo-Para/Site Central, Hanart Tz Gallery, Hong Kong;
Sigma , Osage Gallery , Hong Kong;
The conditional form of the real, Garage Centre for
Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia;
Moscow International Art Biennial, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow , Russia;
Hong Kong Biennial Awards, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Art Beijing, Beijing;
Unmeasured Music, Input/Output Gallery, Hong Kong;
Solo – Input/Output gallery, Hong Kong;
Fuse – artist in residence, Videotage, Hong Kong;
Chirps v. II – John in the Cage, Bird, bird cage, microcontrollers, electronic components, plastic motorized toys

2009
Microwave International New Media Art Festival, Hong Kong;
London International Festival of Exploratory Music, London, UK;
Architecture is Discourse with Music Festival, Hong Kong
Cultural Center , Hong Kong;
City Transit, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong;
FILE Hypersonica International Festival of Electronic Language, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
Experimenta, Hong Kong;
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece;

2008
CityTransit, Vienna , Austria;
Videotage, Hong Kong;
Waterland Kwanyin, 2Kolegas, Beijing;
Hong Kong and Shenzhen Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, Hong Kong;

2007
2pi festival, HangZhou;
Shanghai Street Artspace, Hong Kong;