Nuno Alexandre Serrão

Overview Projects People Motion About

Nuno Serrão is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist working at the edge of poetic narrative and raw minimalism. Driven by curiosity, he builds non-linear projects around uncomfortable, ambiguous subjects that press against our comfort zones and ask what is fundamental versus what is emergent.

Critics describe his work as finding beauty at the intersection of nature and humanity, with cinematic compositions and an unorthodox approach to portraiture that reflect a distinctive sensitivity to the world. His minimalist philosophy shapes his conceptual, aesthetic and editorial approach, evident in his work on publications such as Público, Expresso, HuffPost, Cosmopolitan Germany, Marie Claire Italia, NASA/APOD and GQ Portugal.

His projects have been shown in galleries, museums and festivals across Europe and Asia, and his short films have been recognized by festivals including Aesthetica, Caminhos do Cinema Português, FUSO, InShadow, Astoria, among others. He was selected for Creative Europe’s Futures Photography in 2022 and has collaborated with brands including Adobe (partner since 2020) and Samsung.

Get in touch:
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Analogue projects only, email for digital portfolio.

Recent clients & collaborations (selection): GQ Portugal; Carmencita Editions; GUP Magazine; Cosmopolitan Germany; Marie Clair Italia; Expresso; L’Hémcycle; Adobe; Der Grief; Create! Magazine; Discovery; Too Tired Press; Oprah Daily; Subjectively Objective; Aesthetica Magazine; Samsung Electronics; Mediocre; Boom Saloon; The Huffington Post; Público; and others.

“A cruzada de Nuno não é ideológica, mas sim visual. Ele persegue a beleza que emerge do encontro entre dois mundos, o natural e o humano.”

Ana Marques Maia, Público, 2024

“(…) They depict deserted landscapes being at times overtaken by imposing brutalist architecture, translating a form of melancholy through its aesthetic simplicity. The cinematic compositions, deprived of human life, show places of passage and transition where time seems to stand still for a relieving moment of quietness before a choreography of movements resumes. (…)”

Claire Ducresson-Boët, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, 2022

“(…) His cinematic compositions and unorthodox approach to portraiture demonstrate a sensitivity to the world around him. (…)”

gelstaten, 2021

“Nuno Serrão is a Portuguese photographer, interested in the dialogues between science and contemporary art. Each of his images considers how information is handled, shared, and perceived, framing scenarios as micro-narratives, demonstrating a sensitivity and a curiosity for the planet and its inhabitants. (…)”

Kate Simpson, Aesthetica Magazine, 2019

Exhibitions, solo and collective (selection)
Photometria Festival, Loannina (27 Set – 30 Nov, 2025)
La Petite Gallery, Toulouse (25 Set – 25 Oct, 2025)
Grenze Festival, Verona (20 Set – 20 Oct, 2025)
Ragusa Festival, Ragusa (28 Aug – 28 Sep, 2025)
Lumicroma, São João da Madeira (05 Jul – 27 Ago, 2025)
FORMA, Coimbra (Maio, 2025)
Art Icon, Bastille Design Center, Paris (November, 2024)
ImageNation, Fond. Luciana Matalon, Milan (September, 2024)
[PEP] °01, The Room, Brussels (Jan – Mar, 2024)
Touching Transcendence, USN Gallery, Tokyo (Dec, 2023)
Zrno, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje (Jun – Jul, 2023)
Signs of Impermanence, Jinny Street Gallery, Tokyo (Apr, 2023)
Gallery 46, London (Feb, 2023)
Transitions, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin (Sep – Oct, 2022)
Lenzburg Photo Festival, Lenzburg (Sep, Oct, 2020)
Fotofestival Schiedam, Schiedam (Sep, 2020)
Helsinki Photo, Museum of Finland, Helsinki (Jul, Sep, 2020)

Film Festivals (selection)
FICIMAD | Winner Best Cinematography (Madrid, 2025)
Paris Movie Awards | Winner Best Experimental (Paris, 2025)
Alt Film Fest | Winner Best Experimental (Toronto, 2024)
Festival Impacto | Winner Best Short Film (Lisbon, 2024)
Blois Danse Festival | Winner Jury Award (Blois, 2024)
Quantum Shorts | Nominee (Singapore, 2021)
Caminhos do Cinema Português | Nominee (Coimbra, 2020)
Aesthetica Short Film Festival | Nominee (York, 2020)
FUSO – Lisbon Video Art Festival | Nominee (Lisbon, 2020)
ReelHeart Film Festival | Winner Best Experimental (Toronto, 2020)
LA Experimental Film | Winner Best Dance (Los Angeles, 2020)
Astoria Film Festival | Winner Best Experimental (New York, 2020)
InShadow Festival | Winner Best Portuguese Film (Lisbon, 2019)

Publications, essays, interviews (selection)

“Fragments of intimacy: Nuno Serrão’s suspended world” (Juliet Art Magazine, 2025); “Icebergs: drift away with photographer Nuno Serrão” (Creative Boom, 2025); “Icebergs — A Photographic Exploration of Inner Landscapes” (C-Heads, 2025); “Icebergs, de Nuno Alexandre Serrão: la belleza de viajar hacia dentro” (Cultura Inquieta, 2025); “Spooky Action at a Distance in Collater.al” (Collater.al, 2025); “All Islands Are Moutains in Collater.al” (Collater.al, 2024); “Aesthetica Art Prize Long Listed” (Aesthetica, 2024); “Nuno Serrão: 024” (ZeroFeedback, 2024); “Na Madeira, o brutalismo e a natureza fundem-se num só retrato” (Público, 2024); GQ Portugal December Cover (Lighthouse Publishing, 2023); Interview (Waiting On The World, 2023); One-on-one with Nuno Serrão (Filmcutmagazine, 2023); Fresh Eyes 2023 (GUP, 2023); Cosmopolitan Germany (Bauer Group, July, 2023); Carmencita Best of 2022 (Carmencita Editions, 2023); “All Islands Are Mountains” Translocal nº7 (Academia.edu, 2023); Book “Anthology” (Too Tired Press, 2022); Book “Investigations in Infrastructure” (Subjectively Objective, 2022); “Exploring Life’s Mysteries: Interview with Nuno Serrão” (Create!magazine, 2021); Issue #27 (Create! Magazine, 2021); Issue 14 (Der Grief, 2021); “Desde el interior” (Culturamas, 2021); Book “Um Olhar de Fora Dentro” (Mediocre, 2021); “Micro-Narratives” (Aesthetica Magazine, 2019); “In Between” (The Photographic Journal, 2019); “Folk Tales” (Cultura Colectiva, 2019); “Confronting Existentialism” (Plain, 2018); “Finding Beauty in simplicity” (C-Heads Magazine, 2018); “Morrocos minimal” (Fugas, 2018); “Perseids” Huffington Post (2015); “Lenticular Cloud, Moon, Mars, Venus” (NASA, 2015); and others.