Francisco Nuno Rodrigues (b. 2001, Madeira Island) is an artist and filmmaker. At the heart of his practice lies an attraction to the experimental possibilities of refusal — an abrasive yet generative desire to agitate, subvert, and reject the present in order to imagine unorthodox paths toward deviant elsewheres. Rodrigues provokes moments of friction, creating immiscible spaces where identity, documentation, and narrative uncoil, multiply, and mutate. His work often bleeds from diaristic experience, peeling back the self to fuel a looping confessional cycle of transformation and contradiction. Working across moving image, he draws on family archives and queer, fragmented memories to construct intimate, haunted worlds where the line between fact and myth evaporates.
francisconunodefreitas@gmail.com
@francisco_nuno_rodrigues
Education
2023 — MFA Multimedia Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT
2019 — 2022 BFA Fine Arts, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK
2025 Lâmina da Lua, Dupla Cena 77, Lisbon, PT 2025 Ultra—Periféricas, vaga — espaço de arte e conhecimento, Ponta Delgada, PT 2024 HAMMER TIME, Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT 2024 Fractal Funchal Fest '24, Fortaleza de São João Baptista do Pico, Funchal, PT 2024 The Touching of the Wound, Dupla Cena 77, Lisbon, PT 2024 Arte no Pátio, Pátio Nº2, Lisbon, PT 2023 Pedra Angular, Anona Gallery, Funchal, PT 2023 PUSSY GUM PINK 1000, Anona Gallery, Funchal, PT 2022 Origins, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath, UK 2022 Origins, Goldfish Bowl Gallery, Falmouth, UK 2022 Origins, Porthleven Arts Festival, Porthleven, UK 2022 A30 @ No20, No 20 Arts, London, UK 2022 PUSSY GUM PINK 1000 in THE BASEMENT, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK 2022 Meander, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK 2022 flatverse, Goldfish Bowl Gallery, Falmouth, UK 2021 Miniatures, Grays Wharf, Penryn, UK
2022 Porthmeor Studios - Studio 9, St Ives, UK 2022 Porthleven Prize, Lifeboat Studio, Porthleven, UK
2022 Winner: The Porthleven Prize – Sponsored by The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust, Porthleven, UK 2022 Tate St Ives Emerging Artist Platform Program, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
2023 Guest Tutor, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK