Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 1985
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Pedro Victor Brandão develops series of works in photography, painting, video, and social experimentation that challenge artistic traditions through reflections on the present and future of capitalism, based on research in economics, the right to the city, cybernetics, and the current manipulable nature of the technical image.

Among his solo exhibitions, highlights include: “More Abstract”, Portas Vilaseca Galeria, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil (2023); “Forjada e Outras Formas,” Portas Vilaseca Galeria, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil (2019); “Tela Preparada”, Sé Galeria, São Paulo, SP, Brazil (2016); and “Pintura Antifurto,” Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil (2011).

Recent group exhibitions include: “Non-Fungible Castle,” Lobkowicz Palace, Prague, Czech Republic (2022); Histórias Brasileiras, MASP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil (2022); “Atos de revolta: outros imaginários sobre independência,” Museum of Modern Art – MAM, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil (2022); “O Rio é uma Serpente,” III Trienal das Frestas, SESC Sorocaba, SP, Brazil (2021); “Take Me (I’m Yours),” Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (2018).

In 2019 he minted the series “Returnable” on the Ethereum blockchain, and in 2021 he created the Acerola Fund – an experiment of distributed governance and indirect coordination focused on the acquisition of works made by artists from the Global South. He was awarded the 11th Funarte Marc Ferrez Photography Award in 2010, and nominated for the 11th PIPA Prize in 2020.

He holds a degree in Photography from UNESA (2009) and took courses at the School of Visual Arts (EAV) of Parque Lage (2006-2010 and 2015), the Summer University of Capacete (2012), and the Brazilian College of Advanced Studies (2019), all in Rio de Janeiro.

The artist’s works are part of public collections in Brazil (MAM-RJ, Instituto Moreira Salles, FUNARTE, MAR, and MASP), cryptocurrency collections (M4T, Lander, and Studio137), as well as private national and international collections.