Gil Delindro (1989, Porto) is a sound and visual artist with wide international recognition. He studied architecture at FAUP and has a degree in Media Art from FBAUP (Porto), having completed his studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Germany.

Delindro’s interdisciplinary practice includes documentary film, installation and performance, based on intensive field research, addressing areas such as bioacoustics, ecology and geology.

Notable projects were developed in the Sahara desert (The Weight of Mountains residency, 2015), in the Brazilian rainforest (Resilience: Artist Residency, 2017), in rural northern Vietnam (Blind Signal VTNM-GRMN, 2019), on the Rhône glacier (La Becque Artist in

Residency, 2019), in the volcanoes of Auvergne (residency 100 Jours - Intramuros, 2020) and Northumberland National Park (Visual Arts in Rural Communities VARC, 2022). He has received awards and patronage from institutions such as: EPO (European

Patent Office), EMAP (European Media Art Platform), EDIGMA (media art award, PT), Berlin Masters Award (DE), ENCAC (European Network for Audiovisual Creation), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT), Berlin Senate for Kultur & Europa (DE), Goethe Institute (DE), OSTRALE (DE), STEIM Foundation (NL), Ford Foundation (BR), Françoise Siegfried Meier Foundation / La Becque Artist in Residency (CH), EOFA (Embassy of Foreign Artists, CH), VARC (UK), Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT), SHUTTLE (Porto, PT), among others.

He was a guest artist at the 2017 BioArt & Design Award at the MU Art Centre in the Netherlands and was a finalist in the 2018 edition of this award. His work is represented in private and public collections, and he has presented work in North and South America, Asia and Europe. His most relevant exhibitions: Resilience - Burned Cork (Serralves Foundation, Porto); Constructing Memory (Cluster, Winnipeg); A Grain Within this Cloud of Dust (Gallery Turm, Berlin); Permafrost (Laboral, Gijon); Un measurements (Ars Eletronica, Linz); Perennial Earth (Goethe Institute, Vietnam); Harbour (Living Art Lab, Amsterdam); and To Bough and to Bend (Bridge Projects, Los Angeles).

In 2016 he was selected by the SHAPE platform as one of Europe’s most innovative sound artists, and has been programmed by leading festivals such as MusikProtokoll (AU), Novas Frequências (BR), CynetArt (DE) Athens Digital Arts Fest (GR), ARS Eletronica (AU),

Submerge festival (UK), Semibreve (PT),Lisboa Soa (PT).

He is co-founder of Rural Vivo, an interdisciplinary association dedicated to ecological, educational and cultural activities in the UNESCO-listed GerêsNature Reserve, whose main aim is to combat the loss of cultural opportunities in the rural villages of northern Portugal and innovation in the ecological preservation of the region.

His work has been published on records by Tzadik (New York), Sonoscopia (Porto) and Ausland (Berlin), among others.