Born in Lisbon in 1973, Diogo Pimentão lives and works in London. In his practice, drawing is activated through movement, tension, and spatial interaction: it unfolds in space, engages the body, and inhabits the surrounding architecture. Color-blind, the artist perceives the world through variations of tone, texture, and gradation. His works reflect this perceptual reality: they resist fixed categories and instead propose a continuous transition between different states (between surface and volume, drawing and sculpture, fragility and solidity). Our encounter with his work is less about representation than about presence, rooted in the tactile and the perceptual.

Having grown up on the Portuguese coast, Pimentão developed an early sensitivity to natural forces and the transformations of matter. His practice bears the trace of this: graphite is not merely a tool, but a substance, accumulated, displaced, and reconfigured through repeated gestures. These gestures, sometimes controlled, sometimes surrendered to chance, leave dense deposits on paper, building surfaces that seem to acquire weight and volume. What appears metallic is not an intentional illusion; it is the result of material insistence. Like sand accumulating to form a dune, graphite reveals its transformative capacity through accumulation.

SOLO SHOWS

2026 “Presence”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2025 “Standing Up – For The Nearest Distance”, Gallery Presença, Porto, Portugal
2025 “Solo Programme”, ARCO Lisboa, Encounter Gallery, Portugal
2024 “Encounter”, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 “Reclaimed”, Patrick Heide, Bruxelles, Belgium
2023 “VNBM”, In Contact / Em Contacto, Viseu, Portugal
2023 “Alfaia”, Algarve, Portugal
2023 “Extended Touch”, Praz Delavallade Gallery, Paris, France
2022 “To Be Completed / Por Completar”, Casa da Cerca Art Center, Almada, Portugal
2022 “Transitions Linéaire, Corps Transfuges”, Drawing House, Paris, France
2020 “Performance”, Diogo Pimentão Emmanuel Eggermont, FRAC Rouen Normandie, France
2020 “Drawing Backwards”, Monographic Exhibition, FRAC Rouen Normandie, France
2019 “Loud Whisper”, Gallery Rocio Santa Cruz, Barcelona, Spain
2019 “Gallery Until Then”, Paris, France
2019 “Cristina Guerra Gallery”, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 “Extended Meaning”, Zak Branicka, Berlin, Germany
2018 “Kentler International Drawing Space”, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2017 “Season 2017 - The Part of Chance”, Le Cyclo2016p, Milly-la-Forêt, France
2016 “Museu Grão Vasco”, Viseu, Portugal
2015 “Transitory Capture”, Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 “Disjunctive”, Until Then, Paris, France
2015 “Instance”, Gallery Schleicher/Lange, Berlin, Germany
2015 “Disequilibrium Displacement”, IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2015 “Residual”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea - Colecção António Cachola, Elvas, Portugal
2014 “Collinear Breath”, Murias Centeno, Lisboa, Portugal
2013 “Oblique Gravity”, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2013 “Screening Matter”, Schleicher Lange, Berlin, Germany
2012 “Diogo Pimentão / Cadu Costa (two person show)”, Vera Cortes, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 “Longueur sans larger / Point sans partie”, Gallery Schleicher Lange, Paris, France
2011 “Les Intrus”, Centre d’Art de la Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
2009 “Diferido”, Marz Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 “Prefixo”, Galeria Presença, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 “kjdfjkndf (gestu)”, Galeria Artadentro, Faro, Portugal
2006 “Cousa”, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal
2006 “Dois Pontos”, Galeria António Henriques, Viseu, Portugal
2004 “O Mais Perto Possível”, Gallery Presença, Porto, Portugal

GROUP SHOWS

2025 “Aventure de lignes”, Villa Cavrois, France
2025 “Räumlichkeit (Spatiality)”, Gallery Philipp Von Rosen, Cologne, Germany
2025 “Desenho. Revelação. Drawing Revelation”, Colecção de Arte Fundação EDP, Galeria do Parque, Vila Nova da Barquinha, Portugal
2025 “30 e 3. 30 anos da Galeria Presença”, Porto, Portugal
2025 “Art Düsseldorf”, Düsseldorf, Germany
2024 “First Step”, Bigger Splash Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 “Drawing Biennial”, Drawing Room Art Center, London, United Kingdom
2024 “Ultimus Spectaculi”, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2024 “Éter / Ether”, VNBM Art Space, Viseu, Portugal
2024 “O Lado Mais Visível Das Imagens”, Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, Portugal
2024 “Espanto”, Museu de História Natural e Ciência da U.Porto, Porto, Portugal
2023 “Patrick Heide”, London, United Kingdom
2023 “Black 2023”, Michael Hass Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2023 “Highlights”, Encounter, London, United Kingdom
2023 “High Season”, Encounter and Jahn und Jahn, Lisbon, Portugal
2023 “Focus On The Flatlines: Likeness”, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, United States
2023 “Diálogo 01”, Adriana Barreto Studio, Marvila, Portugal
2023 “Descuradas”, Colecção Norlinda e José Lima, São João da Madeira, Portugal
2023 “A Line Has Time in It - Revision”, Persons Projects, Berlin, Germany
2022 “The Domino Effect 3”, Gaep Gallery, Romania
2022 “Uma terna (e politica) contemplação do que vive”, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa, Portugal
2022 “A Line Has Time in It - Revision”, Persons Projects, Berlin, Germany
2022 “Héritages: 40 ans du LAAC”, Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine, France
2022 “A Line Has Time in It”, Persons Projects, Berlin, Germany
2022 “Making Sense Without Consensus”, Equity Gallery, New York, United States
2021 “Collection Frédéric De Goldschmidt”, Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium
2021 “New Forces Knocking”, Patrick Heide Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021 “Abstractions”, Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris, France
2019 “Drawing Positions”, CAB Fundación Caja De Burgos Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Spain
2019 “L’Image Située”, L’Onde Théâtre Centre d’Art, Vélizy, France
2019 “Gradation”, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
2019 “Constellations: a choreography of minimal gestures”, Museum Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 “MMIPO Museu da Misericordia”, Porto, Portugal
2018 “Ahu (first break)”, FdG Projects, Brussels, Belgium
2018 “Intersticial II - Diálogos no Espaço entre Acontecimentos”, Núcleo de Arte da Oliva / Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira, Portugal
2018 “The Realm Of Objects And Ideas - Chapter 3”, Artuner, Online
2018 “Spatial Flux”, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado, United States
2018 “(pre)Textos”, Foundation Otazu, Navarra, Spain
2018 “RESONANCE – Partie 2”, Frac Normandie Rouen, Rouen, France
2018 “Keep Moving And Collect Art”, Sophis Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2018 “Private Choices”, Centrale For Contemporary Art, Bruxelles, Belgium
2017 “New Additions”, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2017 “Private Choices”, Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
2017 “A Colecção (Reloaded)”, Centro de Artes Agueda, Agueda, Portugal
2017 “Elephant”, Espace 15 Paris College of Art, Paris, France
2017 “Quote / Unquote Entre apropriação e Diálogo”, MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 “Un Certain Regard”, CAV Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
2017 “Part IV Este Lugar Lembra-te Algum Sítio?”, Space Adães Bermudes, Alvito, Portugal
2017 “Did It Happen”, 67 rue de la Régence, Brussels, Belgium
2017 “Quote / Unquote”, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2017 “Part III Este Lugar Lembra-te Algum Sítio?”, CACPS, Ponte de Sor, Portugal
2017 “Part II Este Lugar Lembra-te Algum Sítio?”, CAPC, Coimbra, Portugal
2016 “CAAA”, for the Triennial of Architecture, Guimarães, Portugal
2016 “Conversations: Recent Work by Portuguese Artists in the Serralves Collection”, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
2016 “Outiller le dessin”, Centre d’art La Panacée, Montpellier, France
2016 “3/1/1”, Zak Branicka Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016 “Papier XL”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Galerie d’art Graphique, Paris, France
2016 “Summer Guests / Convidados de Verão”, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 “Abaixo as fronteiras (part 2)”, MACE Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas, Portugal
2016 “Abaixo as fronteiras”, MUDE Museu de Design e de Moda, Lisboa, Portugal
2016 “Formal Meeting”, Until Then Gallery, Paris, France
2016 “A forma do pensamento”, Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 “Parmi les floraisons du ciel incertain”, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
2015 “Exposition inaugurale, réouverture de la Collection Lambert agrandie”, Avignon, France
2015 “First Person Plural”, Collection AA, António Albertino, Coimbra, Portugal
2015 “Pliure. Épilogue (La bibliothèque, l’univers)”, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2015 “The lynx knows no boundaries”, Fondation Ricard, Paris, France
2015 “Drawing Biennial 2015”, Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom
2015 “Perpetual Mobile”, Gallery Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
2015 “132,54m²”, Gallery Schleicher/Lange, Berlin, Germany
2015 “Noiréblanc”, Abanico Art&Lab Studio, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 “Collection Laurent Fiévet part III/III”, BBB - Centre d’art conventionné, Toulouse, France
2014 “Performance”, La Promesse de l’écran, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
2014 “Collection Laurent Fiévet part II”, BBB - Centre d’art conventionné, Toulouse, France
2014 “NoiréBlanc”, Artnest, Abanico Art&Lab Studio, Geneva, Switzerland
2014 “Un battement se déplace en spirale”, Gallery Nicolas Silin, Paris, France
2014 “Centre d’art Galerie Marcel Duchamp”, Châteauroux, France
2014 “Beware Wet Paint”, Turin, Italy
2014 “Pencil / Line / Eraser”, Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014 “Festival Nouvelles”, FRAC Alsace / Theatre Pole Sud, Alsace, France
2014 “Serial”, Galerie Edouard Manet - Centre d’art contemporain, Gennevilliers, France
2014 “Pliage / Fold”, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
2014 “PT Foundation”, Centro das Artes, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal
2014 “Exposition Collection Gilles Balmet”, ESAD, Grenoble, France
2013 “L'apparition des Images”, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, France
2013 “RE:”, Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Besançon Franche-Comté, France
2012 “Extended Drawings”, CAB, Bruxelles, Belgium
2012 “Dessincronia”, Circulo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
2012 “Paper”, MAMAC, Nice, France
2012 “Tarefas Infinitas. Quando a arte e o livro se ilimitam”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 “Traços Pontos e Linhas”, Elvas, Portugal
2011 “Le dessinateur comme prestidigitateur”, Maison de la Magie, Blois, France
2011 “Perte de Controle”, Café-au-Lit, Paris, France
2011 “All to Wall”, Gallery Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 “Translithes”, Espace 6B, Saint-Denis, France
2011 “Perplexe”, La Maison de La Vache Qui Rit, Lons-le-Saulnier, France
2011 “Da discussão nasce a luz”, Convento de Santo António, Lolé, Portugal
2011 “Arbeiten aus dem Bleistiftgebiet”, Van Horn Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 “Display: Objects, Buildings and Space”, Palácio de Quintela, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 “Group Exhibition 09”, Gallery António Henriques, Viseu, Portugal
2010 “Le Violon D, L'Escalier”, Paris, France
2010 “Negativo / Positivo”, Museu da Imagem em Movimento, Leiria, Portugal
2010 “Cimento Dell'Armonia E Dell'Invenzione - The Drawing Machines”, Gregor Podnar Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010 “Estado de Atenção - O Dia Mais Longo Do Ano”, Teatro Municipal, Almada, Portugal
2010 “1er Prix Canson”, Beaux Arts de Paris, Paris, France
2010 “Solar Skill”, Fluxia Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010 “Accords”, Café au Lit et Plateforme Roven, Paris, France
2010 “Au fils de l'oeuvre”, La Gallerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France
2010 “Infinite Fold”, Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2010 “Jogo de Espelhos”, Elvas, Portugal
2009 “Exposição collective”, Museu Geológico, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 “Sister Corita”, Paris, France
2009 “Congrès à Géométrie Inverse”, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2009 “La Ligne”, Paris, France
2009 “102-100”, Galeria de Arte, Castelo Branco, Portugal
2009 “Lá Fora”, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 “desenho, escultura, pintura”, Galeria António Henriques, Viseu, Portugal
2008 “O contrato do desenhista”, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 “La promesse de l’Ecran”, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
2008 “Intricar / Intriquer”, Galeria António Henriques, Viseu, Portugal
2008 “Maison de la Suisse”, Cité Universitaire, Paris, France
2008 “Lá Fora”, Museu da Presidência da República, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 “Trava - Línguas / Tongue-Twitter”, Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 “Dépliage”, La Promesse de L’Écran, Paris, France
2008 “Mostra de Desenho”, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2008 “Ultramoderne”, Centre d'art Passerelle, Brest, France
2007 “Utopomorfias / Utopomorphies”, Galeria António Henriques, Viseu, Portugal
2007 “Ultramoderne”, Espace Paul Wurth, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2007 “Documento: Projecto: Ficção”, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
2006 “Galeria António Henriques”, Viseu, Portugal
2006 “Drawing in Motion”, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery Trust, Suffolk, United Kingdom
2005 “Tractor”, Faro Capital da Cultura 2005, Faro, Portugal
2005 “Jovem Criação Europeia”, Touring Exhibition, Montrouge / Klaipeda / Catalonia / Salzburgo / Genève / Amarante
2004 “Prémio EDP Novos Artistas”, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
2004 “On Drawing”, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

DISTINCTIONS

2024 “FLAD”, Drawing Prize
2021 “The 2022 Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize”
2018 “International Prize”, Prémio Navigator Art em Papel
2010 “Canson Drawing Prize”
2004 “Prémio Novos Artistas Fundação EDP”

COLLECTIONS

Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, France
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (FSRR), Italy
Pomeranz Collection, Vienna, Austria
Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
European Central Bank, Berlin, Germany
Portugal Telecom Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, New York, United States
Fonds National d’art contemporain, Paris, France
PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium
Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
Kablanc Otazu Foundation, Pamplona, Spain
EDP Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
MACE, Elvas, Portugal
Museu de Arte Contemporânea - Colecção António Cachola, Elvas, Portugal
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Oliva Art Center, Norlinda & José Lima Collection, Portugal
MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Australia
CACE, Coleção de Arte Contemporanea do Estado, Alcabideche, Portugal
MAAT The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
FRAC Normandie, Rouen, France