Gabriel Abrantes (b. 1984, North Carolina, USA) is an artist and filmmaker based in Lisbon.Abrantes' practice spans interactive digital performance, multi-channel animation, digitally assisted painting, and feature film. His recent work includes Rattrap (2025), an interactive installation starring a provocative animated rat; Bardo Loops (2024), a four-channel looping animation; and a series of oil paintings developed from 3D models built in Autodesk Maya. His two feature films — Diamantino (2018), which won the Grand Prize at Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, and Amelia's Children (2023), distributed in over 80 countries and seen by more than 500,000 people — represent what he considers the public art of his practice. Across all media, his work deploys Hollywood aesthetics, humor, VFX, slapstick, absurdism, and provocation.His shorter films and video installations — sometimes shown within immersive sets — have straddled the line between film festivals and museums. His films have premiered in competition at Cannes Official Selection, the Venice Biennale, Berlinale, and Locarno, where he won the Pardino d'Oro for A History of Mutual Respect (2010). He received the EDP New Artists Award in 2009 and two European Film Awards at Berlinale.He has had solo exhibitions at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Collection Lambert, and MAAT Lisbon, with an upcoming solo exhibition at Gasworks, London (2026). His work has been presented in group shows and screenings at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Museu Serralves, ICA London, CAM – Gulbenkian, and Mori Art Museum (Tokyo). He has participated in the São Paulo Biennale (2016), the Lyon Biennale (2022), the Ljubljana Biennale (2025), the Contour Biennale, and the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva.