Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1979, multimedia artist Gonçalves moved to the states in 2000 and currently lives and works in Tennessee. He attended school for architecture at Universidade Santa Ursula in Brazil and later studied Industrial Design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. He now works at his studio in Deerfield Beach, and his work is collected across the US and internationally, including Ripley's Believe It or Not Odditorium. He exhibits across the Southeastern United States and won First Place in the two-dimensional category at ArtPrize8, an international art competition based in Michigan, USA. In his interpretations of the works of artists like da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Bouguereau, the artist exposes that a clear expression of beauty, non-conceptual and free from abstraction is as important as the search for beauty in impressionism, abstraction, and conceptual art. Beauty can be simultaneously clear and hidden. Denying the pure expression of beauty requiring no explanation or examination is a sad injustice to humanity, in the same way it would be unfair to limit the artist’s freedom to search and conquer beauty in chaos or in conceptual ways. Gonçalves investigates the possibilities of beauty from the minimalistic arrangement of seemingly identical wood pieces to a complex well-planned and elaborate arrangement of precisely trimmed wood, reflecting light with perfection to achieve an image that resonates with our soul through undeniable and unanimous standards of beauty. CV 1979 Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Studied Architecture at Universidade Santa Ursala in Brazil Studied Industrial Design at Ft. Lauderdale Art Institute Awards1st Place 2-D Juried Vote, ArtPrize 20211st place 2-D Public Vote, ArtPrize 2019Best in Show, Art-Rageous Juried Show Exhibitions 2022LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA, USAPalm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Palm Beach, FL, USA2021 Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY, USA Art Miami CONTEXTi, Miami, FL , USA2020 Art Palm Springs, Palm Springs, CA, USALA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA, USAPalm Beach: Modern + Contemporary, Palm Beach, FL, USA 2019CONTEXT: Art Miami, Miami, FL, USAAffordable Art Fair, New York, NY, USASeattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA, USAThe Palm Beach Show: Jewelry, Art, Antiques, and Design, Palm Beach, FL, USA 2018Las Olas Art Fair, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 2016International Art Competition, ArtPrize8, Grand Rapids, MI, USA“Art-rageous”, Wilton Manors, FL, USA“Unsettled Landscapes”, MAC Fine Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 2015“Reveal in Shadows”, Baily Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, FL, USA“Our Ends or Our Beginnings”, !310 Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA“RedEye”, ArtServe, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Videos WZZM, ArtPrize Piece Highlights Challenges with Aging Out of Foster Care System: Aging Out Installation WalkthroughJ.P. Goncalves Artist Interview PressArtPrize Winners Announcement BroadcastWood TV, 21,000 Squares in ArtPrize Piece put Faces to Foster System Statistics Greeneville Sun, Shining a Light in the Shadows ArtPrize, ArtPrize 2021 Winners Announced Acontece Magazine, Architecture and Design in the Art of João Paulo Gonçalves