Born in Luanda in 1977.
Lives and works between Angola and Portugal.
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EDUCATION
2008 - Documentary photography, University of Newport, Wales
2007 - Photojournalism, London College of Communication (LCC), UK
2002 - Photography, Escola Técnica de Imagem e Comunicação, Portugal
1999 - Photography and Audio, Centro Comunitário de Arcena, Portugal
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2022 - Factory of Disposable Feelings, HANGAR, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 - Muxima: feels like earth, smells like heaven, insofar Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 - Factory of Disposable Feelings, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 - Found Not Taken, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 - Found Not Taken, Kunst Haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna
2015 - Novo Banco Photo Award 2015, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 - Found Not Taken, Scrap Metal Gallery, as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2014 - Found Not Taken/Tipo Passe, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014 - Tipo Passe, Instituto Camões - Centro Cultural Português, Luanda, Angola
2014 - Found Not Taken, Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast, UK
2013 - Edson Chagas, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2013 - Luanda, Encyclopedic City, Angola Pavilion, Palazzo Cini, Italy
2013 - Memorial Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2023 - Trace - Formations of Likeness, Photography and Video from The Walther Collection, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2023 - World in Common, TATE MODERN, London, England
2022 - Currency, 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Germany
2022 - Shifting Dialogues: Photography from The Walther Collection, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
2020 - African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other, 18th FotoFest Biennial, Houston, Texas, USA
2019 - Crossing Night: Regional Identities X Global Context, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, USA
2019 - IncarNations: African Art as Philosophy, BOZAR Centre for Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2019 - Mask – The Art of Transformation, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2019 - Sixth Nature, Porto Photography Biennial, Portugal
2018 - About Face, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 - Role-playing: Rewriting mythologies, Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
2018 - Both, and, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 - From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec
2018 - O Triângulo Atlântico, 11th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2018 - More For Less, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 - National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, Australia
2017 - Deconstructed Spaces, Surveyed Memories, 11th Rencontres de Bamako, Musée du District 2017 - Bamako, Mali chin(A)frica: an interface, Duke House, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA
2017 - Recent Histories - New African Photography, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
2016 - Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
2015 - Ocean of Images, New Photography exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2015 - The Lay of the Land: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection Project Space, New York, USA
2015 - Novo Banco Photo 2015, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 - Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum, USA
2015 - The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
2015 - First Donations, Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 - Schema, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 - Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 - Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria
2014 - Journal, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
2014 - Here Africa, Château de Penthes, Geneva-Pregny, Switzerland
2014 - The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst), Frankfurt, Germany; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
2013 - NO FLY ZONE, Unlimited Mileage, Museu Colecção Berardo, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal Landscape, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2013 - Transit, OCA, San Paulo, Brazil
2012 - MABAXA project, Luanda, Angola
2012 - RAVY-International Visual Arts Festival, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2012 - Zukunftsentwickler/Future Makers, LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn, Germany
2012 - Live Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
2010 - 2nd Luanda Triennial, Angola
AWARDS
2018 - African Art Award, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
2013 - Golden Lion Award for best National Pavilion, Angola Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy