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SOLO SHOWS

2015
Dá licença / Excuse me, Palácio Cadaval, Evora, Portugal

2011
Maputo – Luanda – Lubumbashi, Influx Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

2010
Mauro Pinto, a State matter, Rua D’arte Bar, Maputo, Mozambique

2007
Inside/Outside, La Halle de l’Etoile, Lumumbashi, Congo

2005
Ports of convergence, French-Mozambican Cultural Centre, Maputo, Mozambique

2004
Woman-Mother, French-Mozambican Cultural Centre, Maputo, Mozambique

2003
Simply children, Fortaleza, Maputo, Mozambique

2001
Weapons into art, Commonwealth Pavillion, Sydney, Australia

GROUP SHOWS

2019
The Past, the Present and The in Between, Curated by Lidija K. Khachatourian, La Biennale di Venenezia, Venice, Italy

2018
African Passions, Palais Cadaval, Evora, Portugal

2015
1:54 African Contemporary Art Fair, Afronova, Somerset House, London, UK
As Margens dos Mares, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil

2014
1:54 African Contemporary Art Fair, Afronova, Somerset House, London, UK
Cata-ventos, gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal

2013
Present Tense, Photography from Southern Africa, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Next Future Gulbenkian Program, Lisbon, Portugal

2012
Cheveux Chéris. Frivolités et Trophées, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France

2011
Idioma Comum, PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

2010
El oja salvaje, Museo del Barro, Asuncion, Paraguay
Ocupações Temporárias, Maputo, Mozambique
FNB Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

2009 – 2011
Maputo: a tale of one city, IKM gallery, Oslo, Norway – National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

2009
Ex nugis seria d’Afrique et d’ailleurs…, Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur Marne, France

2008
Ricardo Rangel and Mauro Pinto, two man show, Afronova, Johannesburg, South Africa
Pollution… , University of Architecture, Maputo, Mozambique

2006
Look ahead, Camões Institute, Maputo, Mozambique
Expo contemporary art 06, National Museum of Art, Maputo, Mozambique
Photo Festa, To Matola, Chissano Gallery, Maputo, Mozambique
Replica and Rebellion, National Museum of Art, Maputo, Mozambique
To Matola, Espace Saint-Ouen, Paris, France

2005
Indian Ocean Workshop of Photography, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa
World Social Forum, Contemporary Art Museum, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2004
Africa-Brazil, Parliament, Brasilia, Brazil
International Encounters of Photography, Arles, France

2003
Saudade, de l’Espoir/Esperenza, St-Benoît, Reunion Island

2002
21 years of photography, Mozambican Association of Photography, Maputo, Mozambique
Photo Festa, Brazilian Centre, Maputo, Mozambique

2000
Weapons into art, itinerant exhibition, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Canada
Funga banga, Maputo, Mozambique

BIENNALE

2009
Thessaloniki Biennale, Salonica, Greece

2003
African Encounters of Photography, Bamako, Mali

Publications

PRESENT TENSE
French, English, Portuguese
Published by Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian
2013

BELOVED HAIR
320 pages, 28x22cm, hardcover
French
Published by Actes Sud and Musée du Quai Branly
2012

REPLICA E REBELDIA / REPLICA AND REBELLION
163 pages, paperback
English
Published by Instituto Camões
2006

MAURO PINTO
21 pages, 12x17cm, paperback
French
Published by Les Editions de l’Oeil
June 2004

SAUDADE
139 pages, 14.5x17cm, hardcover
French
Published by Ocean Editions
2003

Press

The Art Newspaper’s pick of the 2019 Venice Biennale, The Art Newspaper, April 2019

Festival : les étoiles africaines brillent à Évora, Le Point Afrique, August 2018

Sapeurs, silks and selfies: African contemporary arts, The Guardian, August 2018

Evora Africa: crossing continents, The Financial Times, June 2018

African Passions: Beyond Geography, History and Bodies, Elephant, May 2018

‘Global’ contemporary African art comes to rural Portugal—despite growing visa issues for artists travelling to Europe, The Art Newspaper, May 2018

The Historic Portuguese City of Évora Celebrates Contemporary Art from Africa, Widewalls, May 2018

20 African photographers to look out for in 2017, True Africa, December 2016

1:54 Contemporary African Art fair, Times Out London, October 2015

As casas do bairro da Mafalala em exposição no Palácio Cadaval, Mutante, September 2015 (Portuguese)

Mauro Pinto & Goncalo Mabunda,“Everything is a Story”, Artists on Africa/ episode 4 bonus, October 2014 (video)

Mauro Pinto & Goncalo Mabunda, on investments, Artists on Africa/ episode 4, September 2014 (video)

Dá Licença: Potraits of homes in Maputo, africandigitalart.com, 2014

La photographie au sud de l’Afrique, Africultures, November 2013 (French)

« Photographies du sud de l’Afrique » : ensemble malgré tout…, Jeune Afrique magasine, October 2013 (French)

L’Afrique, avenir de la photographie !, Libération/ Next, November 2012 (French)

Born in 1974, lives and works in Maputo, Mozambique.

In the early 1990s, Mauro Pinto studied photography at Monitor International School in Johannesburg and during this period he made a internship with the photographer José Machato. Then, he moved to Maputo where he worked next to the pioneer of photojournalism in Mozambique, Ricardo Rangel and where he will be placed next to the Norwegian photographer Trygve Bolstad or Karl Kugel from Reunion Island.

In 2002, he participated in the exhibition « TO MATOLA » in « Espace 1789 Saint-Ouen » in Paris and in 2010, he participated in the second edition of El Ojo Salvaje, at Paraguay, and has become the first african artist to expose there.

Mauro Pinto interrogates the visual creation, information and communication. His works capture the essence of space thanks to a clever play with contrasts that can be seen provocative. Today, his work makes him one of the most recognized contemporary photographers of Mozambique.