To start from the dark, discover the light.
To paint is, to me, a path upwards. Reach the surface and see the whole through the water line.
The balance between “firm land” and “out of depth”, between the shadows and all the colors in the world.
To even forces is to see the beauty through the eye of the hurricane.
BIOGRAPHY
Tiago Hesp (1981), is a Portuguese artist with a long multidisciplinary artistic career that takes expressions from mural art, to music, illustration, scenography and painting.
Graduated in Scenography from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema de Lisboa (formerly the Lisbon Conservatory), Tiago Hesp has been exploring multiple techniques and approaches to his art, having gained considerable visibility for his work in graffiti, which he has been developing since 1998.
Tiago Hesp paints to try to resolve himself as a human being in the world, in a permanent attempt to find the balance of having a place that is only his own.
Always starting from the dark – reflected in the permanent black line, in the aggressiveness of its application – his works are an attempt to resolve and balance the various forces that affect him, in a battle in which the self and the ego meet and compete, seeking soften in any middle ground between the black and the target.
SOLO SHOWS
“É FOGO POSTO” - Circus Network
Porto, March 2025
“Quase um Quarto” - Galeria Municipal Orlando Morais, Casa de Cultura Jaime Lobo e Silva
Mafra, October 2024
“Pedra e Pau” - Apaixonarte
Lisbon, March 2023
“PANO CRU” - Atelier da Graça
Lisbon, April 2022
Untitled – Municipal Gallery at Câmara Municipal de Proença-a-Nova
Proença-a-Nova, January/February 2020
“Da pele das coisas” – Galeria do Centro de Documentação da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Lisbon, April 2019
“Aparar os Cascos” - Birraria - Parede de Arte
Almada, November 2018
“Partida, Lagarta, Fugida!” – Casa ao Largo - IPDJ Setúbal
Setúbal, September 2018
“A Alegria da Caverna” – Apaixonarte
Lisbon, April 2018
“Ir à lenha, ver os bichos – êxodo” - Véronique Boutique
Lisbon, June 2017
“Ir à lenha, ver os bichos” – Birraria-Parede de Arte
Almada, April 2017
“Nem morte nem primavera” - Véronique Boutique
Lisbon, March 2011
COLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
“Cara ADÍLIA” - Apaixonarte
Lisboa, Portugal, March 2025
“Perspectivas da Memória” - MUSEU DE ARQUEOLOGIA E ETNOGRAFIA DO DISTRITO DE SETÚBAL
Setúbal, Portugal, February 2024
“BETWEEN TWO WATERS” - UNDERDOGS GALLERY
Lisbon, Portugal, January 2024
Abstrakt 2.0 - REM . Espaço Arte
Porto, Portugal, September 2023
“Programa 3” - Irmã Feia Gallery
Almada, Portugal, October 2022
“Olhar Pessoa” – Lisbon Pestana Hotel
Lisbon, December 2021
“Ephemeralethernal” - NFT group show curated by Underdogs Gallery
May 2021
Untitled – Malapata Gallery
Lisbon, July 2019
“Cacilhas Inside” - Birraria-Parede de Arte
Almada, December 2014
“Fabrik P-01” – Fábrica do Braço de Prata
Lisbon, June 2011
“Wallmada” - Oficina da Cultura
Almada, March 2010
“LX Factory Open Day” – LX Factory
Lisbon, May 2010
“Red Bull Street Gallery” + “Art Bunker”
Lisbon, May 2008
“CLASH COLLECTIVE 08 – THE PURPLE CYCLE” – Centro de Congressos de Lisboa
Lisbon, October 2008
STREET ART - Participations | Presences | Comissions
ESTAU 24 - Curated por Mistaker Maker - Estarreja - Portugal 2024
VIA VALONGO - Curated por Mistaker Maker - Valongo - Portugal 2024
WOOL FEST - Curated by Mistaker Maker - Covilhã, Portugal 2023
STEP IN THE ARENA Festival - Eindhoven, Holland 2023
SÊ O HERÓI DA VIDA REAL - IPST / CMA - Almada, Portugal 2023
Festival IMINENTE - Lisboa, Portugal 2022
FAZUNCHAR - Curated by Mistaker Maker - Figueiró dos Vinhos, Portugal 2022
MÉEE - Folk Festival - Palmela, Portugal 2022
APRENDER É CRESCER - Sobreda, Almada - Portugal 2021
Mural 18 - Barreiro, Portugal 2021
Festival Marmotto - Faro, Portugal 2019