PROFILE
YUP/Paulo.Arraiano, expresses himself through a body of work from where the forms emerge from an ambivalence between urban culture and nature, merging both these realities that surround him and bring forth a world between worlds where he continually searches for his space, his language; energy that flows and is turned into drawing, into shapes, colour and movement…
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Past
Born in 1977, Cascais, Portugal
Art director of Slang Magazine (urban culture mag)
Art director of Magnolia Magazine (trend mag)
Art direction and design in different studios
Illustration / Comics at Ar.Co www.arco.pt
Communication Degree at ISCEM www.iscem.pt
Teaching at Restart www.restart.pt´
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Exhibitions
2010 Montana Gallery . Lisbon
2009 ArtBasel . Miami
2009 BSV . West Berlin Gallery . Berlin
2009 Life.Essencials . Art.Whino . Washington D.C
2009 Lecoqtuguese (Exd09) . Mercado da Ribeira . Lisbon
2009 Cascais Artspace
2009 Mayday . Art.Whino . Washington D.C
2009 Are You Having a Crisis . Pavilhão 28 . Lisbon
2009 Encounters . Yron Artspace . Lisbon
2008 Inked.Souls Art.Whino/Tagur . Washington D.C
2008 Eurocultured . Manchester
2008 Museé d’Art Moderne . Luxemburg
2007 Optimus Lab Tour . Portugal
2007 Redbull Street Gallery Lisbon
2007 Kruvkurva Customs . Lisbon
2007 Fused Wasted Youth . Birmingham
2007 Freackypeople . St. Petersburg
2007 Restart . Restart . Lisbon
2006 MusaTour . Fabrica Features . Lisbon
2006 MusaTour . BBS Gallery . Tokio
2006 MusaTour . Mercado Del Borne . Barcelona´
Commisioned.Projects
Auf Blank
Carhartt
Nike
Redbull
Super Rad Toys
AboardShop.Skateboards
Methods.NYC
Playimaginative
Show&Prove Clothing
YesNoMaybe.Clothing
Dirtyface
Ride.The.Rockett.Clothing
A.Better.Tomorrow.Clothing
Roxy
Gatorade
Computer Arts
Fused.Magazine.UK
Optimus
Superbock
Station Urban Wear
Musicbox
Faster.Music
Dj.Riot
Transformadores.Records
Universal.Music
Damabete
Kruvkurva
Domus.Music.Space
El Camino (Carharttt Shop)
WTCC . Tiago.Monteiro
Books/Press
Pictoplasma
Victionary.Books
Index.Books
Musabook
NLFbook
Xfuns.Magazine.Japan
Idea.Magazine.Taiwan
Camouflage
Digit.Magazine
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