Afonso Rocha (b. 1999, Portugal) lives and works in London, UK. He received an MA in Fine Arts from the City & Guild of London Art School in 2024 and a BA (Hons) from the Porto Faculty of Fine Arts in 2021, with a semester-long stay at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Rocha has been awarded prizes including the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, the ACS x City & Guilds Studio Prize, a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant for Studies Abroad, the D. Fernando II Painting Award, an Innovate Artist Grant Honourable Mention and an ArtsinSquare Grant. In 2023 he was shortlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize, exhibiting at the Bankside Gallery, London. He recently had his first institutional solo show “No Jardim” at the Sintra Museum of Arts in Lisbon, Portugal. Rocha’s work has been included in multiple exhibitions and is held in public and private collections in Portugal, UK, Spain, France, Brazil and Luxembourg.