José Narciso (Brazilian, b. 1996) is a self-taught visual artist working across painting and digital culture, using family photographs, daily rituals, Brazilian symbols and images found online as raw material. Painting gives these sources a new physical presence, while digital circulation extends their life beyond the studio. Born in Belo Horizonte, he held his first solo exhibition at Galeria Savta in Brasília in 2021.
Narciso was raised in a family of painters — both his father and grandfather painted, and art always held a place on the family walls — which shaped his understanding of images as vessels for memory and emotion. A bull recurs throughout his practice as a figure of power, fear, celebration and protection, rooted in memories of Brazilian popular culture and moving between sacred and ordinary life.




