Nuno Maldonado Tuna

Born in Lisbon, Nuno Tuna began his career as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1988. Specialising in Identity Design and Illustration, he has collaborated on projects in Portugal, Greece, Malta, Angola, the United States and England.

His work spans a wide range of fields, including sports equipment design, furniture, jewellery, storyboarding, cartooning and graphic design.

He is the co-author, with journalist António Mateus, of Mandela, the Exemplary Rebel (Planeta Editores, 2013). In 2006, he represented Portugal at DesignMai in Berlin with the project One ring, two hundred minds, a jewellery exhibition created by jeweller Sofia Serrano and promoted by AICEP and curated by designer Marco Sousa Santos. He is currently undertaking a degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon.

In his artistic practice, Nuno Tuna draws on transhumanist philosophy and speculative science as a theoretical foundation. He raises questions—directed at himself—about ethics, exploring themes such as Humanity’s relationship with technology, memory and immortality.

From this introspective process emerge abstract works in drawing, painting, sculpture and video, whose interpretation is left open to the viewer’s imagination.

Artistic CV

2024 – Group exhibition Bazar do Natal. Atelier Beirão, Lisbon. Curated by Susana Beirão..
2024 – Group exhibition Arte do Cego. Galeria 23A Atelier, Lisbon. Curated by Sara de Araújo Sequeira.
2024 – Solo exhibition Circuitos, Filamentos, Convergências. Galeria 23A Atelier, Lisbon. Curated by Fernando Pina.
2024 – Group exhibition Liberdade, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 25 April 1974 Revolution. Odivelas Exhibition Centre. Curated by Odivelas City Council / Division of Culture and Tourism.
2023 – Solo exhibition Circuitos 2. Atelier Beirão, Lisbon. Curated by Susana Beirão.
2023 – Group exhibition Óriq Showcase 20/23, celebrating the third anniversary of Óriq Gallery, Lisbon. Curated by Nuno Pascoal.
2020 – GABA 2020 – Exhibition of works by students of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon.
2019 – Group exhibition Colectiva (Visual Arts), with Black Mendes, Carlos Mota, João Amoêdo Pinto, Né Barros, Maria Castel-Branco, Pedro César Teles, Paulo Canilhas and Ricardo Passos. Óriq Artistic Collective, Lisbon. Curated by João Paulo Sousa.

2018 – Exhibition Pêlo na Venta / Hair Trigger. Character Design and Storytelling. Barbólogo, Lisbon.
2017 – Exhibition Esquiços Incompletos para Histórias Inacabadas (Incomplete Sketches for Unfinished Stories). Character Design and Storytelling. Espaço Madrid 25, Lisbon.
2006 – Group exhibition of artistic jewellery One Ring, Two Hundred Minds by jeweller Sofia Serrano. Curated by Marco Sousa Santos / AICEP, with the participation of designers Elder Monteiro, Fernando Brízio, Manuel Vital, Miguel Vieira Baptista, Pedro Silva Dias, Rita Filipe and Toni Grilo. DesignMai Berlin, Germany.

Associativism/volunteering

2008 – Co-founder of the Portuguese Paintball Federation
2010 – Co-founder of the Alumni Association of Liceu Dona Filipa de Lencastre
2012 – Co-founder of DEASCE Rossio Association
2012 – Co-founder of Galáxia Sombrero Association

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