João Bragança Gil
João Bragança Gil (Lisbon, 1989) is an artist and researcher based in Lisbon. He studied painting at the Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa between 2008 and 2010; he moved to Caldas da Rainha, where he graduated in Industrial Design (BA) in 2013 from the Escola Superior de Artes e Design. In 2014, Bragança Gil moved to London where he enrolled in a master’s program in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins UAL, which he completed in 2016. In recent years he has been making exhibitions and films on a regular basis, including Anticline (2020) awarded Best Green Short Film at the Drama Film Festival in Drama, Greece, as well as other national and international awards and exhibitions.
Among his recent exhibitions stand out Drop me in the river, Dip me in the water! (2021), curated by Carolina Trigueiros at Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon; O sol, o mais velho, a ovelha, as the origin (on and on) e o klecks klecks (2021), curated by Sismógrafo at Casa das Artes, Porto; CODA (2022) with Francisca Aires Mateus at Buraco, Lisbon; Uncertain Strata at EGEU, Lisbon; Purga’s group show, Estudo do Meio curated by Isabel Cordovil and Rudi Brito, at Carpintarias de S. Lázaro in Lisbon; and Midnight Sun at Mono Lisboa. He was in residence at Arquipélago - Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, in São Miguel, with the collective FetArt (France) and Ci.CLO (Portugal) as part of Temporada Portugal — França. In 2023, Bragança Gil presented Paraísos Artificiais (2023), a solo exhibition at the Museu Nacional de Ciência e História Natural, the result of more than two years’ research with Beatriz Medori and curated by Sofia Marçal. In 2024, he participated in the group exhibition Entre Margens, curated by João Pinharanda.
“‘Analogous to a film script, or fragmented visual essay, the viewer is guided through the ramifications of the artist’s investigative time-based process. Potential cracks and fissures in our perception are unearthed through
deconstruction of text, image and environment’”
