Pedro França

Pedro França is an artist and educator. Since 2011, he has worked across a variety of media including drawing, ceramics, and digital projects. His practice moves between individual and collaborative modes, engaging with virtuality as a conceptual field tied to dreams, delirium, memory, and imagination.

França’s work has been exhibited and collected by institutions such as Pro Helvetia, MAR (Rio de Janeiro), Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, MUPA (Curitiba), Frestas – Trienal SESC, MAM SP, and MAM RJ.

He was nominated for the PIPA Prize in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, and for the Marcantonio Vilaça Prize in 2019. He has also participated in residencies at institutions including Residency Unlimited (New York, 2020), Casa Wabi (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2022), and Annex B (New York, 2019).

Between 2011 and 2023, França was a member of the theatre collective Cia Teatral Ueinzz. With the group, he performed in contexts such as Arika Episode 7 (Glasgow, 2015 and 2021), If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution (Amsterdam, 2016), and the São Paulo Biennial (2014).

As an educator, França has taught since 2006 in institutions such as Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro, 2006–2011), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2009), Museu de Arte Moderna (São Paulo, 2012–2020), and Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, 2011–2020). He was a visiting professor at the FAAP School of Art (Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado) in 2018. He also coordinated the Undergraduate Curriculum at EAV Parque Lage (2009–2010) and co-created Escola Entrópica (2012) at Instituto Tomie Ohtake, a school centred on group critique and both individual and collective creation.

França’s recent projects bring together material practice and pedagogical experimentation, resulting in works shaped by collective creation, institutional negotiation, and social engagement.