José Drummond is a Portuguese artist who lives in Macau, where he is the director of VAFA, an international video art festival. He has an MA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute in New York and the University of Plymouth. Previous studies include Painting, Drawing and Scenography. He is twice nominated for the Sovereign Prize for Asian Art and represented Portugal at the Valencia Biennial. He has been honored with scholarships from the Orient Foundation (Portugal), the Portuguese National Cultural Center (CNC), and the Macao Office of Cultural Affairs. Drummond was named Artist of the Year 2015 by Hoje Macao newspaper and has exhibited in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Portugal, Spain and the United States, among other nations. Drummond works with Film / Video, Photography, Installation, Performance and Objects. He is interested in the duality between visibility and invisibility and the space between fantasy and reality. Love, loss, loneliness, dreams and failure are some of the most common themes of him, in an existentialist work group by nature.