The artist Pedro Vaz is the winner of the FLAD Drawing Award 2025 – an initiative of FLAD, in partnership with Drawing Room Lisboa -, and will receive a monetary prize of 20 thousand euros. The announcement was made at Drawing Room Lisboa, where an exhibition with works by the five finalists of the Prize was also held.

The announcement was made this Saturday at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon, where the Drawing Room Lisboa took place, a contemporary art fair dedicated to drawing, in which works by the 5 finalists of this edition of the award were exhibited.

The FLAD Drawing Prize, worth 20 thousand euros, was awarded in what is the 8th edition of Drawing Room Lisboa, after 173 applications and 5 finalist artists selected: Ana Manso, Mariana Gomes, Luísa Jacinto, Pedro Vaz and Tiago Baptista.

The jury – made up of the artist João Onofre, Miguel von Hafe Pérez, curator of FLAD, and Mónica Álvarez Careaga, Director of Drawing Room Lisboa – unanimously decided to award the FLAD Drawing Prize 2025 to the artist Pedro Vaz, justifying: “His proposal combines a conceptual rigor that is complemented by a plastic formalization of undeniable uniqueness. Referring to the tragedy of contemporary forest fires, the artist immersed himself in the territory from August 9 to 25 of this year, to later propose a visual reflection that unfolds from the matrix of drawing to the territory of the moving image and the document. It should be noted his ability to reinterpret a recurrent practice of his painting in the current proposal with charcoal drawing, thus reinforcing the thematic adequacy dealt with and anchoring the project in a possibility for art to assert itself as a socially relevant discourse.”

The jury also points out the unequivocal quality of all the proposals presented, thanking the commitment with which the artists responded to the nomination, thus honoring the Prize and reaffirming the importance of drawing in contemporary creation.

The FLAD Drawing Award has already distinguished the artists Pedro Tropa, Maria Capelo, Carla Filipe and Rosa Baptista.

About the winner:

Pedro Vaz (1977). He is a visual artist who explores the relationship between man and nature. He uses drawing, painting, video, and installation to transform the physical experience of remote ecosystems into works that capture lived time, bodily presence, and the sensitive memory of the landscape.