Diogo Nogueira

Diogo Nogueira (b. 1999, Porto) lives and works between Porto and Paris. He holds a BA in Fine Arts – Painting from the University of Porto (FBAUP) and a postgraduate degree from ESAD.CR, and has trained at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (ENSBA) as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grantee.

His practice, which moves between painting, drawing, ceramics and installation, is grounded in an investigation of the body, the landscape and the collective imaginary, with a scenographic approach to the image. In large-scale compositions painted on advertising canvas, bodies intertwine in playful or ritual gestures, in natural settings that operate as spaces of escape and transformation. Between humour and eroticism, the work links propaganda imagery to history painting and insists on the power of images to summon bonds and create shared mythologies.

Since 2018 he has exhibited regularly in Portugal and abroad, with solo exhibitions at Galeria Municipal de Almada (2025), Galeria Graça Brandão (2024) and Galeria Presença (2024), and group exhibitions at CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, and UCCLA, Lisbon (2026). In 2025 he received the Millennium BCP Young Artist Prize and the Mouseion Prize – Art Law House, and was selected for the 4th edition of Culturgest's CAIXA Competition; in 2026 he was a finalist for the Prisma Art Prize, Rome. His work is held in collections including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Culturgest, the Porto Municipal Collection, Fundación ARCO, the António Cachola Collection and the Cerveira Biennial Foundation. He is a member of Clube de Desenho in Porto, where he also works as an art educator.