Diogo Pimentão (Lisbon, 1973) lives and works in London. He studied art at Ar.Co., Lisbon; the Sculpture Seminar, Gotland, and the Centro Internacional de Escultura Pêro Pinheiro in Portugal. The practice of drawing, especially using graphite, is the central axis of his work. He conceives it as a form of contact between a material and a support through a repetitive gesture, sometimes blind or procedural, but he also frequently employs cement, often in tension with paper. His research combines randomness with a rigorous technique, through traces and marks, lines, or strokes. The sheet can be folded, raised in space, or placed on the floor.
Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include; ‘Leaping Towards’ Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2025, upcoming), ‘Proportions of Silence’, Encounter, Lisbon (2024), ‘Extended Touch’ Praz Delavallade, Paris (2023), ‘To Be Completed/ Por Completar’, Casa da Cerca Art Centre, Almada (2022), ‘Transitions Linéaire’, Drawing House, Paris (2022), ‘Drawing Backwards’, FRAC Rouen Normadie (2020), ‘Loud Whisper’, Rocio Santa Cruz, Barcelona (2019), ‘Drawing Body’, Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (2019), ‘Drawn Towards’, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York (2019), ‘Insignificantes’, Museu Nacional Grão Vasco, Viseu (2016), Disequilibrium Displacement, IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2015). ‘Residual’, Museu de Arte Contemporânea - Colecção António Cachola, Elvas (2015).
Diogo Pimentão’s works can be found in important public and private collections worldwide including: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR; Serralves Foundation, Porto, PT; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PT; MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, AU; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, FR; Pomeranz Collection, Vienna, AU; European Central Bank, Berlin, DE; Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT; Thalie Foundation, Brussels, BE; Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Portugal Telecom Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Joann Gonzalez Hickey Collection, New York, US; Fonds National d’At Contemporain, Paris, FR; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Kablanc Otazu Foundation, Pamplona, ES; EDP Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Museum of Contemporary Art - António Cachola Collection, Elvas, PT; Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins, Lisbon, PT; FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, FR; Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon Portugal PT; Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, AU; FRAC Normandie, Rouen, FR.
