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.
Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘Proportions of Silence’, Encounter, Lisbon (2024, Upcoming), ‘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). Recent institutional group exhibitions include; ‘Descuradas’, Colecção Norlinda e José Lima, São João da Madeira (2023), Collection Frédéric De Goldschmidt, Cloud Seven, Brussels (2021), Drawing Positions, CAB Fundación Caja De Burgos, Burgos (2020), ‘Constellations: a choreography of minimal gestures’, Museum Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2019), ‘MMIPO’, Museu da Misericordia, Porto (2018), ‘Intersticial II - Diálogos no Espaço entre Acontecimentos’, Portuguese Art at Norlinda and José Lima Collection, São João da Madeira (2018), ‘Spatial Flux’ Joann Gonzalez Hickey Collection, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado (2018), ‘(pre)Textos’, Foundation Otazu, Navarra (2018), ‘Resonance’, New Acquisitions, Frac Normandie Rouen, Rouen (2018), ‘Private Choices’, Centrale For Contemporary Art, Bruxelles (2017), ‘New Additions’ Kentler International Drawing Space, New York (2017), ‘Quote/ Unquote, Entre apropriação e Diálogo’, (Collection Foundation EDP), MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (2017), ‘CAAA’, for the triennial of Architecture, Guimarães (2016), ‘New Acquisitions’, Serralves Foundation, Porto (2016), ‘Outiller le dessin’, Centre d’art La Panacée, Montpellier (2016), ’Papier XL’, Centre Georges Pompidou, Galerie d’art Graphique, Paris (2016), ‘Summer Guests’, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2016), ‘Abaixo as fronteiras’, ‘MACE Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas’, Colecção António Cachola, Elvas (2016), ‘Abaixo as fronteiras’, MUDE Museu de Design e de Moda, Colecção Francisco Capelo, Lisboa (2016).
Diogo Pimentão’s works are included in the collections of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, in Paris; Pomeranz Collection, Vienna; Center Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the European Central Bank; Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (FSRR), IT; Thalie Foundation, Brussels, BE; Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon, PT; European Central Bank, Berlin, DEU; Portugal Telecom Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Joann Gonzalez Hickey Collection, New York, US; Fonds National d’art contemporain, Paris, FR; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Serralves Foundation, Porto, PT; Kablanc Otazu Foundation, Pamplona, ES; EDP Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Museum of Contemporary Art - António Cachola Collection, Elvas, PT FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, FR; Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon Portugal PT; MONA, Museum of old and new art, AU; Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, AT; European Central Bank; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PT; FRAC Normandie, Rouen, FR.