Diego Mouro (São Bernardo, 1988) lives and works in São Paulo. A self-taught artist, his practice moves between oil painting and contemporary muralism, investigating the formation and resistance strategies of Afro-diasporic culture in Brazil. Moved by the spiritual dimension of Black sensibilities through their traces, practices and ritual knowledge, Mouro has exhibited his work in Brazil, France, Mexico and South Africa. Gesture, in his work, operates as a playful vector between the pictorial and its borders: the passage of time, notions of aging, loss, and also what resists this passage, are all traversed by his brushstrokes. As a Black artist, Mouro also claims the right not to address only his Blackness: by creating a series on flowers—a theme deeply rooted in the history of white Western art—he fights for the right to a subjectivity that is not solely defined by race, but rather crosses and transcends it.
With a sensitive palette, pictorial solutions aimed at high density, and a vocabulary that crosses regionalism, the sacred, and the popular, Diego Mouro transforms painting into a territory of reconnection and reinvention — a way of affirming the permanence of the invisible, the right to subjective complexity, and the power of symbols in motion.
REPRESENTED BY MITRE GALERIA
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Povoada | Afro-Brazilian Museum Emanuel Araújo | São Paulo, Brazil [LEARN MORE]
2024
E também as Flores | Mitre Gallery | Belo Horizonte, Brazil [LEARN MORE]
GROUP SHOWS
2025
Chegança. (Curated by Marcelo Campos and Thainá Trindade) | Museu Vassouras | Vassouras, RJ, Brazil
Meu Quintal é maior que o mundo. Curated by Priscyla Gomes | Casa Triângulo | São Paulo, Brazil
Tempo Composto. Curated by Lucas Alberto | Athena Galeria. São Paulo, SP, Brazil | Athena Gallery | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2023
Mães no Imaginário da Arte. Curated by Claudinei Roberto da Silva | Afro-Brazilian Museum Emanuel Araújo | São Paulo, Brazil
HumAno | Bacorejo Arte | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1973 – 50 Years Later | Bacorejo Arte | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018
2nd Ouvidor 63 Biennial | Red Bull Station | São Paulo, Brazil
Visual Carnival Gathering | Centro Cultural Ouvidor 63 | São Paulo, Brazil
4th Playfair | Gama Crea Gallery | Mexico City, Mexico
Claúsura Trânsito | Group Exhibition | Mexico City, Mexico
2017
3rd Playfair | Gama Crea Gallery | Mexico City, Mexico
Confluences | Espace d’Art Contemporain Le Grape 27 | Paris, France
Mistura | apArt Gallery | São Paulo, Brazil
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Our Lady of Rosary. EXPO Chicago 2026. Solo Booth, Mitre Galeria
Mural at Back To the City Festival. Johannesburg, South Africa
Untitled. Mural for CURA 2020. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Untitled. Mural for Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araújo. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
“Entre Deus e eu, o céu.” Mural for Cais do Hidroavião. Vitória, ES, Brazil
“Com a paciência de quem observa as águas, aprendo.” Mural for Centro de Educação Unificada (CEU) Rosa da China. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Untitled. Mural for Casa Amarela Providência. Morro da Providência, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Untitled. Mural for Teatro do Incêndio. Bexiga neighborhood. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Untitled. Mural for the festival Vozes contra o Racismo, curated by Hélio Menezes, Regina Rocha and Thamires Cordeiro. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Untitled. Two murals for Centro Cultural São Paulo.São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Portrait of Nelson Mandela. Mural for Minhocão. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
“Tia Eva.” Portrait of Eva Maria de Jesus, mural for Festival Campão Cultural. Campo Grande, MS, Brazil