Hugo Canoilas lives in Vienna, Austria.
Canoilas completed his degree at ESAD in Caldas da Rainha in 2000 and obtained his master's degree
from the Royal College of Art in London in 2005. Individual presentations of his work include “Under
the Volcano - MNAC -Sonae Art Cycles”, curated by Emília Tavares, Chiado Museum, Lisbon;
“Endless Killing”, curated by Chus Martinez at Centro de Arte Contemporanea Huarte, Spain and “10
Reasons to be a member”, curated by Tobi Maier at Franfurter Kunstverein. Canoilas has been
contributing with his work in institutional exhibitions such as “Publishing as an artistic tool box” and
“Destination Wien” at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, “Where elephants come marching in” curated by
Mark Kremer at the De Appel in Amsterdam, “Performance Proletarians” organized by Lili Renaud
Dewar and Benjamin Valenza at Le Magasin - CNAC, Grenoble and before that, exhibitions at the
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, among
others. His work has received critical reviews in the magazines Mousse, ArtReview, Observer, Frieze,
Metropolis M, FlashArt and in the newspapers The Guardian, Public and Express. Canoilas was co-
editor of OEI #80–81: ”The zero alternative: Ernesto de Sousa and some other aesthetic operators in
Portuguese art and poetry from the 1960s onwards”. Canoilas is represented by the Galeria Quadrado
Azul (Porto / Lisboa) and Workplace Gallery (London).