Collection: Pedro Calisto, visual artist

Portuguese visual artist, trained in Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (2009–2013), with specialisation in medal-making and woodwork. Throughout his academic and professional career, he developed technical skills in ceramics, tile painting, sculpture, drawing, medal-making, woodwork, computer skills, and the handling of tools and machinery.

His education also includes a Technical Course in Ceramics at CENCAL (Caldas da Rainha, 2014–2015) and a Contemporary Tile Art Artistic Residency with Thomas Schittek (Óbidos, 2015), experiences that were decisive in shaping his artistic practice.

Since 2014, he has worked as a visual artist specialising in traditional Portuguese tilework, exploring this medium through a contemporary approach. In 2022, he worked as an instructor in a Tile Painting Workshop promoted by the Municipality of Palmela.

Exhibitions

• 2025 – “Roots and Modernity: Tilework as Expression”, Igreja de Santiago, Castle of Palmela (Palmela)
• 2024 – “Fifteen by Fifteen”, Museum of Mechanical Music (Pinhal Novo)
• 2022–2023 – “Visual Arts Exhibition”, Citizen’s Space (Palmela)
• 2022 – “Tilework”, Municipal Gallery 11 (Setúbal)
• 2022 – “Extremes”, Casa de Bocage (Setúbal)
• 2015 – “ECO II”, OCA (Óbidos)
• 2014 – “ECO I”, OCA and Espaço Ó (Óbidos)
• 2014 – “Contamination”, CENCAL (Caldas da Rainha)
• 2012 – Sculpture Graduate Exhibition, National Conservatory Dance School (Lisbon)
• 2012 – “Open Galleries of the Faculty of Fine Arts” (GABA), Lisbon
• 2011 – “Convergences”, Officers’ Club (Setúbal)
• 2011 – Group exhibition of painting and sculpture, Pousada de Palmela (Palmela)

His work establishes a dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity, valuing tilework as a contemporary and identity-driven form of artistic expression.