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Paulo Arraiano is a visual artist with a degree in Communication from ISCEM (Lisbon) and training in Fine Arts from Ar.Co – Center for Art and Visual Communication (Lisbon). He is a co-founder of re_act contemporary, a residency program and artistic laboratory based in the Azores, and course Director for New Media in Contemporary Arts at the Cascais School of Arts and Design.

His artistic practice has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Highlights include exhibitions at: La Casa Encendida [Madrid]; MAAT Museum [Lisbon]; Berardo Museum [Lisbon]; Centre d’Art Contemporain Passerelle [Brest]; Vellum/LA, [Los Angeles]; Wilhelm Hack Museum [Ludwigshafen]; Leal Rios Foundation (Lisbon); Dimora Artica (Milan), Hawaii-Lisbon (Lisbon), Pivô (São Paulo), Museu d’Història de Catalunya (Barcelona), Art Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Cidade das Artes (Rio de Janeiro), MAH – Museum of Angra do Heroísmo (Azores), Quartier Général – Centre d’art Contemporain (La Chaux-de-Fonds), Aeroplastics Contemporary (Brussels), Petra Gut Contemporary (Zurich), TAL Gallery (Rio de Janeiro), ArtRio (Rio de Janeiro), The Dot Project (London), Palácio da Pena (Sintra), Forty/Forty (Warsaw), Galeria Graphos (Rio de Janeiro), Museu do Côa (Vila Nova de Foz Côa), ArtWhino (Washington DC), Harare International Festival of the Arts – HIFA (Zimbabwe), Porto City Council (Porto), Musée d’Art Moderne (Luxembourg), Scope/Miami Basel (Miami), National Building Museum (Washington DC), and P28 (Lisbon), among others.

He has also participated in several artist residencies and festivals, including Hangar (Lisbon); Transforma (Torres Vedras), Walk&Talk (Azores), LAC (Lagos), and Atemporal (Rio de Janeiro).

Arraiano's work is included in various public and private collections, such as: CAC Málaga Museum (Spain), Luciano Benetton Collection (Italy), Quartier Général Arts Center (Switzerland), Museum of Angra do Heroísmo (Azores), Sztuki Zewnętrznej Foundation (Poland), Grupo Pestana (Portugal), D. Luís Foundation / Museum Quarter (Portugal), MARCC (Portugal),