Paulo Luís Almeida is an artist, an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal (FBAUP) and Director of i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society (since 2019). He holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, Spain
As an art researcher, he works within i2ADS’s programme ‘Drawing Across Disciplines,’ which is focused on developing drawing-based strategies to challenge disciplinary strictures and habits of thought that often constrain thinking across divergent areas. Paulo is the co-PI of the DRAWinU R&D project (2021-2025), funded by the Foundation of Science and Technology, a study on drawing in STEM to develop new learning strategies and artistic practices based on drawing activities crossing art and science. Intimately connected with his research, he develops an artistic practice intertwining drawing and performance through elemental notions: the friction between body and site, the loss of everyday gestures and the transference of actions between performative contexts.