Vasco Araújo was born in 1975 in Lisbon, the city where he continues to live and work. He completed his first degree in Sculpture in 1999 at FBAUL (Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon), and attended the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Maumaus in Lisbon, from 1999 to 2000. Since then, he has participated in various solo and group exhibitions both in Portugal and abroad, also taking part in residency programmes, such as The University of Arts, Philadelphia (2007); Récollets, Paris (2005); and the Core Program (2003/04), Houston. In 2003, he was awarded the EDP Prize for New Artists.

His recent solo exhibitions include A Ｍoment Ａpart, MAAT, Lisbon (2019); Vasco Araújo, M-Museum, Leuven, Belgium, (2018); Decolonial Desire, Autograph ABP, London, United Kingdom (2016).

Amongst his group exhibitions, the most important have been his participation in the Triângulo Atlântico, Bienal Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2018) and All that Falls, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014).

His work has been published in various books and catalogues and is represented in several public and private collections, such as at the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne (France); Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Centro de Arte (Spain), etc.