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
PRESENT TENSE
French, English, Portuguese
Published by Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian
2013
French
Published by Actes Sud and Musée du Quai Branly
2012
English
Published by Instituto Camões
2006
MAURO PINTO
French
Published by Les Editions de l’Oeil
June 2004
SAUDADE
French
Published by Ocean Editions
2003
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.
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.
WORKS