José de Moura Resende Filho (São Paulo, Brazil, 1945) is a distinguished sculptor who began his artistic journey studying printmaking at the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation (Faap) in 1963, the same year he entered the School of Architecture and Urbanism at Mackenzie University. As a young artist, he studied drawing with Wesley Duke Lee and interned in the office of renowned architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.

In 1966, Resende co-founded the Rex Group with artists such as Wesley Duke Lee, Nelson Leirner, Geraldo de Barros, Frederico Nasser, and Carlos Fajardo. He graduated in architecture and also helped establish the Brasil: School, along with Luiz Paulo Baravelli, Frederico Nasser, and Carlos Fajardo.

Throughout the 1970s, he taught at the Institute of Arts and Decoration at Mackenzie University's School of Communication and Art and at the Sculpture Department of Faap. In 1975, he co-edited the magazine Malasartes and, from 1976 to 1986, served as the head of the Department of Architectural Language and as a full professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas.

Living in New York between 1984 and 1985, he was a fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In his work, Resende explores the expressive potential of the materials he uses, engaging in dialogue with arte povera and American post-minimalism. He works with a diverse range of materials, including stones, copper tubes, lead sheets, steel cables, glass sheets, and bulbs, and liquids such as mercury, water, and sepia ink. In more recent works, he has also incorporated leather and paraffin into his creations.