Igor Jesus was born in 1989 in Lisbon, where he lives and works. He has a degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. In 2022, he was one of the winners of the Caixa para Jovens Artistas Competition - Caixa Geral Depósitos Collection; in 2019 he won the Crear/sin/prisa award, Cervezas Alhambra /ARCO partnership; in 2017 he was a finalist for the EDP Foundation's EDP New Artists Award. In 2017, he was also awarded a scholarship by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in partnership with Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin for an Artist Residency program. He has exhibited his work regularly, including solo exhibitions: "BanhoMaria" - Escola das Artes in Porto in 2022; "Clávier à Lumier" - Rialto6, Lisbon in 2021; "Chamber" - Capela Carlos Alberto in Porto in 2020; "Safelight" - Galeria Filomena Soares in 2019; "Strob" - No Entulho/Artworks, Porto; "BoundtotheEarth" - Kunstraum Botschaft in Berlin; "Anthropophag" - Cologne Art Fair in Cologne in 2018; "Love you to the bones" - Filomena Soares Gallery; "Liebe bis unter die haut" - Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin in 2017 and "Chessari" - Solar Gallery, Vila do Conde in 2016.
His most recent group exhibitions include: "Escola da Libertinagem" - Galeria Francisco Fino and "Aqui Somos" Rede, Rialto6 & Mace, Elvas in 2022; "Uppercut Editions" - Uppercut, Lisbon in 2021; "Água, vinho e coroas de flores" - Uppercut, Lisbon; "Murro no Estômago" - Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon; "El fantasma de una oportunidad" - La Nave, Madrid in 2019; "Collaboration" - Schijf, Rosendal & Quinta do Quetzal, Vidigueira in 2018; "Tawapayera" - Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon; EDP New Artists Award - EDP Foundation, Lisbon; "Offene Werkstatten" - Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; "Themorus" - Porto Municipal Gallery, Porto in 2017; "Artists' Film International" (at MAAT, Lisbon, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Istanbul Modern, Turkey, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy, and Projecto 88, Bombay, India); "O lince não conhece fronteiras", Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris in 2016, among others.
His works are part of several public collections, such as: António Cachola Collection, Elvas, Portugal; Fernanda Ribeiro Collection, Lisbon, Portugal; EDP Foundation Collection, Lisbon, Portugal; Norlinda and José Lima Collection, São João da Madeira, Portugal; TFRA -Teixeira de Freitas e Associados, Lisbon, Portugal; among other private collections in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands and Brazil.