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Ed Cross Fine Art is delighted to announce a solo exhibition for Mário Macilau at this year’s edition of VOLTA art fair in New York City from 2-6th March 2016. This will be Mario’s first exhibition in New York and his first major show after his acclaimed exhibition at The 2015 Venice Biennale.

Mário Macilau lives and works in Maputo, Mozambique.Started his photographic journey in 2003, and went professional when he traded his mother’s cell phone for his first camera in 2007. He specialises in long-term projects that focus on the environmental and social conditions of Mozambique, and the complex reality of the labour market in the region.

Macilau’s work has been recognised with awards, and feautures regularly in solo and group exhibitions in his home country and abroad. Recently he was one of three artists presented at the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), with a body of work also presented at Volta NY (2016). Also in 2015, Macilau’s work was included in the Vitra Design Museum’s exhibition ‘Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design’, curated by Amelie Klein with Okwui Enwezor as Consulting Curator - the exhibition is planned to tour several countries for five years, and was presented in spring 2015 at the Guggenheim Museum in Spain. Other notable shows include ‘Pangea: New Art from Africa and Latin America’ Saatchi Gallery, London (2014), Fotofest Biennial, Houston (2014), International Biennial of Casablanca, Morocco (2014), ’Tempo’ Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon (2013), Dak’art Biennial OFF, Dakar (2012), Rencontres de Bamako, Bamako (2011), VI Chobi Mela Photo Festival, Dhaka (2011), Photo Spring, Beijing (2011), and Lagos Photo, Lagos (2010 & 2011).

Recent awards and recognition include Macilau having being invited to participate in a program and exhibition with the United Nations Office, World Press Photo and the Universal Rights Group (2016). Macilau was also chosen as one of the Foreign Policy’s ‘100 Leading Global Thinkers’ at a ceremony in Washington D.C. (2015). In the same year Macilau was selected to give a talk at Harvard University in Boston as one of the panelists during the Boston Global Forum. Macilau’s work has won several awards including the European Union Award for Environment (2015), the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary for Visual Arts (2014), and he is a laureate of the Africa Centre’s Artist in Residency (AIR) Fountainhead Residency Award (2014).

Wednesday March 2 - Sunday March 6, 2016 Pier 90, New York City