João Jacinto (Mafra, 1966) lives and works at Mount Estoril.

In 1985 he began his artistic studies at Fine Arts University in Lisbon (E.S.B.A.L.) Between 1989 and 1992 he did teach Drawing at Ar.co, School of Arts, Lisbon. And since 2001 he is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisboa. About drawing, João Jacinto always reflects withs his students: "sometimes what we call a mistake or an accident or a badly designed part, if accepted and assimilated in the making of the drawing, then becomes what is truly surprising and interesting about the work"