Tomaz Hipólito (b. 1969 Lisbon, Portugal) Lives in Lisbon, Portugal. Studied architecture. Among other prizes and grants, In 2023, the artist was awarded the Santander Art Prize Edifício dos Leões in Portugal, securing first place. His work has been showcased in various venues worldwide, including the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Emily Harvey Foundation in New York and La Tabacalera in Madrid. He has done some artistic residencies like Gyeonggi Creation Center in South Korea and the Residency Unlimited at New York. Since 2010, he regularly starts exhibiting between Seoul and New York but also in Portugal in several spaces such as Project by Pedro Cabrita Reis at Associação 286 (Faro) and in Azores with Nature Remains at Atlantis Festival, Sete Cidades, S. Miguel, Walk and Talk Festival, Arquipélago – Contemporary Arts Center and finally in Lisbon at Brotéria, Thalia Theater, Berardo Collection Museum, Cristina Guerra Gallery, and Appleton Square among others.
Tomaz Hipólito work is represented in private and public art collections, he continues to engage in thought-provoking exploration of space and experience resulting from this gesture.
The work addresses the questions of space, its occupation and transformation. Mapping gesture in order to create a new territory, interval, placed in-between subjectivity and the experience occurring from that. Multiple media such as photography, video, performance, painting and drawing, are used to better reveal the concept of each work.
The entire process becomes part of the work.
Like Gestures, all works are unique pieces