Chico Machado

Chico Machado (Brazil, 1964) is an artist, performer, and professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the Institute of Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He holds a PhD in Visual Poetics from the institution. He has held dozens of group and solo exhibitions and has participated in several stage shows in various capacities. He has received several regional and national awards in visual arts and theater. He is the coordinator of the Grupo Insubordinado de Pesquisa (GRIPE) and has been conducting research in artistic poetics at the university since 2005. He lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil.