Hugo Canoilas lives and works in Vienna and New York.

Recent individual presentations of his work include 

, curated by Rainer Fuchs, mumok, Vienna; 

Cnidarian Polyps Repaired by the Eye of the Observer

, curated by Ricardo Nicolau and Marta Almeida, Serralves Museum, Porto. Canoilas has been contributing with his work in institutional exhibitions at Kunstverein in Hamburg, De Appel in Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Salzburguer Kunstverein in Salzburg, 30th São Paulo Biennial in São Paulo, the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial in Yekaterinburg, and Vienna Biennale For Change in Vienna.

His work has received critical reviews in the magazines 

The Zero Alternative: Ernesto de Sousa and some other aesthetic operators in Portuguese art and poetry from the 1960s onwards

. He’s developing The Grotto, a collective project at Quadrado Azul Gallery in Lisbon. Canoilas was the 2020 recipient of Kapsch Contemporary Art Award.

https://gulbenkian.pt/cam/en/agenda/hugo-canoilas-sculptured-in-darkness/

A detail crop from Jannis Varelas painting. Bright primary colours create a childlike narrative. 

Installation documentation from 'Later Is Now' a group exhibition curated by Hugo Canoilas at Workplace | London

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Later Is Now

A brightly coloured collaged painting of film stills from the thriller Gloria (1980 directed by John Cassavetes) of actor Gena Rowlands gazing into the middle distance in-front of a mirror, by Hugo Canoilas

Installation Images of 'Unfaithful to Daydreams' by Hugo Canoilas at Workplace London

Unfaithful to daydreams

Installation shots of 'Satellite Satellite' a group exhibition at Workplace London 

Satellite Satellite

Exhibition documentation of Hugo Canoilas' exhibition 'Propaganda' at Workplace in Gateshead

Hugo Canoilas

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