Mário Macilau

Mário Macilau (Maputo, 1984) lives and works between Maputo and Lisbon. In 2003, Macilau began working in photography and in 2007 he launched himself as a professional photographer. His solo exhibitions include: Growing in Darkness, London (2016), The Road Not Taken, National Art Museum, Maputo (2014), Esquecidos, PLMJ Foundation (2013), Moments of Transions, Espelho da Alma Gallery, Lisbon (2010). Group exhibitions include: Venice Biennale, representation of Mozambique, Venice (2015), Making Africa - A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2015); Africa: Architecture, Culture, Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2015); The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., USA (2015), Photoquai - Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France (2013).