Lisbon, Portugal, 1995
Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal

Studied ceramics at António Arroio Artistic School (2013), holds a degree in Sculpture (2017) and a Master’s in Multimedia Art (2022) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Trêpa has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 2015 in various galleries and institutions. In 2022, he won the Private Collection Award of the Young Art Prize CarpeDiem | Millennium BCP Foundation. His work is part of the António Cachola Collection (MACE), the Treger Saint Silvestre Collection (Oliva Art Center), and several private collections. In 2024, he was nominated as a finalist for the EDP Foundation New Artists Prize and the Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize. He is currently preparing his next solo exhibition for the Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, scheduled for 2025.

Francisco Trêpa’s practice investigates the symbiotic relationships that sustain ecological, existential, and affective systems, using a variety of materials to create sculptures and installations that explore, and ultimately embody, concepts such as transmutability and hybridism. His most recent body of work creates a meta-universe inspired by the vegetal world, the connections and intersections between plants and animals, such as pollination, and the complex relationships between non-human animals and humanity in the Anthropocene. His sculptures engage with phenomena provided by the sensory, leveraging aesthetic and poetic dimensions to foster awareness and reflection. Thus, his works weave visual narratives that invite contemplation and questioning, combining symbolism, emotion, form, and thought. His work is prolific, using imagination and the degree of infinitude it offers to unfold and expand the forms that matter (ceramics, wood, wax) assumes in his practice. Over the last two years, the “main characters” of this meta-universe have been fictional, genderless figures who tell their stories and try to escape the categories of our world.