Igor Jesus

Igor Jesus was born in 1989 in Lisbon, where he lives and works. He has a degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. In 2022, he was one of the winners of the Caixa para Jovens Artistas Competition - Caixa Geral Depósitos Collection; in 2019 he won the Crear/sin/prisa award, Cervezas Alhambra /ARCO partnership; in 2017 he was a finalist for the EDP Foundation's EDP New Artists Award. In 2017, he was also awarded a scholarship by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in partnership with Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin for an Artist Residency program.

He has exhibited his work regularly, including solo exhibitions: “Animistic Glass: multidimensional visions”, Galeria Fundação Amélia de Mello, Lisbon, 2024; “Grande Palacio”, L21 Gallery, Palma, 2024; "BanhoMaria" - Escola das Artes, Porto, 2022; "Clávier à Lumier" - Rialto6, Lisbon, 2021; "Chamber" - Capela Carlos Alberto, Porto, 2020; "Safelight" - Galeria Filomena Soares, 2019; "Strob" - No Entulho/Artworks, Porto; "BoundtotheEarth" - Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin; "Anthropophag" - Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, 2018; "Love you to the bones" - Filomena Soares Gallery; "Liebe bis unter die haut" - Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2017 and "Chessari" - Solar Gallery, Vila do Conde, 2016.

His most recent group exhibitions include: “Contemporânea Film(e)”, Lisbon, 2024; “RANDOM”, Azan Contemporary Art, Lisbon, 2024; "Escola da Libertinagem" - Galeria Francisco Fino and "Aqui Somos" Rede, Rialto6 & Mace, Elvas, 2022; "Uppercut Editions" - Uppercut, Lisbon, 2021; "Água, vinho e coroas de flores" - Uppercut, Lisbon; "Murro no Estômago" - Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon; "El fantasma de una oportunidad" - La Nave, Madrid, 2019; "Collaboration" - Schijf, Rosendal & Quinta do Quetzal, Vidigueira, 2018; "Tawapayera" - Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon; EDP New Artists Award - EDP Foundation, Lisbon; "Offene Werkstatten" - Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; "Themorus" - Porto Municipal Gallery, Porto, 2017; "Artists' Film International" (at MAAT, Lisbon, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Istanbul Modern, Turkey, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy, and Projecto 88, Bombay, India); "O lince não conhece fronteiras", Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris, 2016, among others.

His works are part of several public collections, such as: António Cachola Collection, Elvas, Portugal; Fernanda Ribeiro Collection, Lisbon, Portugal; EDP Foundation Collection, Lisbon, Portugal; Norlinda and José Lima Collection, São João da Madeira, Portugal; TFRA -Teixeira de Freitas e Associados, Lisbon, Portugal; among other private collections in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlads and Brazil.

Strob, 2018

Installation View, “Vouga”

“Waterhole”, 2021

Installation View, “O lado escuro da Lua”, 2014

Installation View, “Grande Palácio”, 2024, L21 Gallery, Palma