Jorge Nesbitt was born in 1972, Lisbon, Portugal.
In 1995, he finished the Drawing and Painting courses at Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e de Comunicação Visual de Lisboa. In 1998, he attended the Fine-Arts Advanced Course of the same institution.
Jorge Nesbitt's creative universe is easily recognizable through the unusual associations present in his works. With more obvious references to literature, with a particular taste for the work of Gertrude Stein, he associates multiple allusions to 17th century Dutch painting and Picasso's modernism.
The originality and the very personal character of Jorge Nesbitt's work come from this complex combination of artistic and literary affinities, combined with a remarkable technical ease. It is also in this way that his works are integrated into our time, with the right dose of humor and poetry, necessary for the condition of the contemporary artist. Or, as Manuel Castro Caldas suggests in his text on the artist's work: "to reconfigure the future with images or words - and no longer in images or words - perhaps that is what it is all about".
Jorge Nesbitt has been exhibiting his work regularly since 1999. Since then, he has participated in several solo and group exhibitions - Ariane de Rothschild Prize, Palácio das Galveias, Lisbon, 2005; Primavera Selections, Emerging Artists at the Design Center, New York, 1998; Grammercy International Contemporary Art Fair, New York 1997, among others.
His work has been included in several important collections, such as the Carmona e Costa Foundation Collection, the Ar.Co. Collection and the Ar.Co. Lisbon Collection, the Pedro Cabrita Reis Collection, the Joana Vasconcelos Foundation Collection, among others.
Lives and works in Lisbon.