Pedro Batista

Pedro Batista was born in Lisbon in 1980, where he lives and works. He grew up in Carcavelos, between the city and the sea, in a setting where skateboarding, surfing and garage bands helped shape his artistic references.

He graduated in Communication Design in Lisbon in 2004 and completed an artist residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2009. The following year he moved to Berlin. His career has developed through stays and projects in different countries, including residencies at Campos de Gutiérrez, in Medellín, Colombia, in 2015, and at Villa Lena, in Tuscany, in 2020. He also took part in the programmes Blank 100 | Craveiral, in Portugal, in 2024, and ARCUS Project, in Ibaraki, Japan, in 2026.

His solo exhibitions include "Chasing Clouds", at the Sala do Veado of the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, in Lisbon, in 2015, "¡Paisa!", at the Centro Cultural de Cascais, in 2016, and "Fill in the Blanks", at the Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, in Lisbon, in 2019. He later presented "Standstill", at BOALab, in 2021, and "O monstro está cheio de fome", at Ulisseia, in 2023, both in Lisbon, as well as "MESA", at Beta Contemporary, in Barcelona, in 2025.

He has taken part in group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, including "Periplos", at CAC Málaga, and "Marginal", at Underdogs, in Lisbon, both in 2016, as well as "Pintura sem Fim", at Brotéria, in 2023. In 2018 he took part in "Cola Cuspo", at Espaço AZ, in Lisbon, as both artist and curator. He was also present at the SWAB Barcelona fair in 2025 and showed work at Galeria Monitor, in Lisbon, in 2026.

His work is held in the collections of the Villa Lena Foundation, the Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, CAC Málaga, the Fundação D. Luís I and Luciano Benetton, as well as in the private collections of Miguel Sommer Champalimaud and Figueiredo Ribeiro.