Pedro Mendes (b. 1995, Brazil) is a visual artist and researcher based in Madrid, working primarily in moving image. His practice centres on archival and synthetic sources — home videos, found footage, photographs, and AI-generated images and video — repurposed as material for investigations into mediated memory, queer and migrant identities, and disabled embodiment. Across his work, these investigations manifest as self-representation, autofiction, and formal abstraction.
 

Alongside his artistic practice, Mendes is currently a PhD candidate in Advanced Studies in Artistic Productions at the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), where his research develops the theoretical and practical dimensions of his work, and a member of the research group Cuerpos Conectados III — an artistic research project on self-representation, the body, and identity construction through Generative AI. He holds an MA in Filmmaking from the University of Warwick / London Film School (UK, 2023) and a BA in Audiovisual Production from PUCRS's School of Communication, Arts, and Design (Brazil, 2017), where he received a CNPq research scholarship.

Before establishing an independent practice, he ran a studio specialising in video and photography. He has since been active as a translator, film critic, and educator, and serves as an international ambassador for Runway AI. He is also the co-founder of PÁR — a platform for critical and experimental practices in cinema and contemporary art. His work has been shown at festivals, galleries, and institutions across Latin America, Europe, and the United Kingdom.