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

His artistic 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 hybridity. His most recent body of work creates a meta-universe inspired by the plant world, focusing on the connections and intersections between plants and animals, such as pollination, and the complex relationships between non-human creatures and humanity in the Anthropocene.

His sculptures engage with sensory phenomena, drawing on aesthetic and poetic dimensions to foster awareness and reflection. In this way, his works weave visual narratives that invite contemplation and questioning, combining symbolism, emotion, form, and thought.

Francisco Trêpa’s work is prolific, using imagination—and the sense of boundlessness it enables—to unfold and expand the forms that materials like ceramics, wood, and wax take in her practice. Over the past two years, the ‘main actors’ in this meta-universe have been fictional, genderless characters who share their stories and attempt to escape the categories of our world.

In 2022, he won the private collection prize at the CarpeDiem Young Art Prize | Millenium BCP Foundation. His work is part of the Antonio Cachola collection (MACE), the Treger Saint Silvestre collection (Centro de Arte Oliva) and several private collections. In 2024 he was shortlisted for the EDP Foundation’s New Artists Award and the Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize. His next solo exhibition will take place at the Gulbenkian Foundation’s Modern Art Centre in 2025.

He has a Degree in ceramics from the António Arroio Art School (2013). He has also a Degree in Sculpture (2017) and a Master’s in Multimedia Art (2022) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of ULisboa.