Alexandre Nunes

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Alexandre Nunes is a Montreal based visual artist born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1974.
With a musician father and an artist mother, he traveled to numerous European countries before the age of five. During his childhood, he showed an aptitude for drawing and was attracted to different types of artistic expression, such as painting, music, photography and filmmaking. From 1996 to 2001, Nunes studied graphic design and worked as a cartoon colorist for a production house (Ciné-Groupe).

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