NEGRÃO · David Negrão, visual artist

His practice is rooted in 3D animation, video mapping, and interactive environments. He began his creative journey in 2001 at ETIC – Escola de Tecnologias, Inovação e Criação, in Lisbon, and studied Cinema at Universidade Lusófona. His first professional project, in 2004, was in cinema, contributing to the most-watched Portuguese film of that year, Sorte Nula. Since then he has worked as a 3D generalist with multiple studios on cinema, advertising, and immersive installations.

He has taken part in international collectives such as Analema Group (UK), Datagrama (USA), and Mulabs (Portugal). With Datagrama he contributed to the stage design for Boom Festival. At Mulabs he worked on EEG-based algorithms, between brain activity and audiovisual expression. In 2020 he co-founded Unloop Collective ↗ with dancer and choreographer Sara Montalvão, making work that meets performance art and researches memory, identity, and game design. In 2023 he received the Barcelona Critics Prize for Best Digital Tools for his collaboration on Una Isla by Agrupación Señor Serrano.

He draws on the patterns, systems, and rhythms found in nature and the cosmos. His current work keeps building immersive environments where digital abstraction meets organic sensibility.