Mario Macilau

Mario Macilau (1984, Mozambique) was born in Maputo where he currently lives and works. His work has been recognized with many awards, and he was a finalist of Unicef Photo of the Year in 2009. His work has featured regularly in numerous solo and group exhibitions, both in his home country and abroad, including: The Month of Photography, Cape Town, South Africa, 2009; The Pan African group exhibition in the Biennale of African Photography, Bamako, Mali, 2011; VI Chobi Mela Photo Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011; Photo Spring festival in Beijing, China 2011; Lagos Photo in Nigeria, 2011; BESphoto at CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, Portugal, 2011; Pinacoteca de Estado de São Paulo in Brazil, the KLM in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2012; The Johannesburg Art Fair, 2013; Les Recontres Picha in Lubumbashi, RD Congo, 2013 and The Biennale Arts Actuels in Saint Dinis, Reunion Island, 2013, Saatchi Gallery’s Pangaea : Art from Africa and Latin America, 2014, In the Beginning the World Became Flesh at the Vatican Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015, Making Africa at the Vitra Museum, Basel, and the Lodz Photofestival, 2015