Pedro Valdez Cardoso (Lisbon, 1974), lives and works in Lisbon.
He has exhibited regularly since 2001 and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.
The work he has been developing, with a greater focus on sculpture and installation, focuses mainly on issues related to identity (social, sexual and cultural), and post-colonial issues.
He is represented in several public collections, among which the following stand out Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Arquipélago-Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Azores; Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon; Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon; DA2-DOMUS ARTIUM 2002, Salamanca, Spain; IVAM-Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderna, Valencia, Spain; MUDAS-Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira, Calheta, Madeira; Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Oporto; Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon; MACUF-Museu de Arte Contemporânea Union Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain.