Dig Ferreira

Location: Brooklyn, New York

Education: Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), São Paulo, Brazil B.A. in Interior Design, August 2009 - May 2013 Studied architecture, interior design, furniture design, painting, and drawing. Student of Ale Salles

Medium: painting, drawing (sumi ink) spray painting, performance

Open to commissions: Yes

Social: https://www.instagram.com/digferreira/

Website: www.dig-ferreira.com

My practice is rooted in performance, transformation, and storytelling. Through DOC-DRAWING, I document stories in real time using a sumi brush held by the mouth — a performative and journalistic gesture that merges presence, memory, and narrative on canvas. With FORGING ARMORS, I repurpose garments into symbolic armors, exploring resilience, identity, and empowerment through upcycled fashion. My abstract paintings, murals, and large-scale installations extend this language into color and space, addressing themes of migration, cultural hybridity, and the body as a vessel of history. Across media, my work creates encounters where art is not merely an object, but a living process of witnessing and transformation.