Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1979, multimedia artist J.P. Gonçalves moved to the states in 2000 and currently lives and works near Austin, Texas. He attended school for architecture at Universidade Santa Ursula in Brazil and later attended courses in Industrial Design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. His work is collected across the US and internationally, including Ripley's Believe It or Not Odditorium. He exhibits across the US. In 2016, he won First Place in the 2-Dimensional category public vote, and in 2019 and 2021 the First Jury Selection at ArtPrize8, an international art competition in Michigan.

In his interpretations of the works of artists like da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Bouguereau, the artist exposes that a clear expression of beauty, non-conceptual and free from abstraction is as important as the search for beauty in impressionism, abstraction, and conceptual art. Beauty can be simultaneously clear and hidden. Denying the pure expression of beauty requiring no explanation or examination is a sad injustice to humanity, in the same way it would be unfair to limit the artist’s freedom to search and conquer beauty in chaos or in conceptual ways. Gonçalves investigates the possibilities of beauty from the minimalistic arrangement of seemingly identical wood pieces to a complex well-planned and elaborate arrangement of precisely trimmed wood, reflecting light with perfection to achieve an image that resonates with our soul through undeniable and unanimous standards of beauty.