Galerie Caprice Horn




	Martins Edgar
1977	Born in Évora, Portugal
	MA Photography & Fine Art, Royal College of Arts, London
	BA (Hons) Photography & Social Sciences course, London College of Printing & Distributive Trades, London
	BTEC Photography course, Berkshire College of Art & Design, Reading, UK
	Philosophy degree, Liceu de Macau, Macau, China

	Solo Exhibitions
2008	“The Diminishing Present”, La Caja Negra, Madrid, travelling to Porta 33, Funchal, Madeira
	“The Accidental Theorist”, Laura Marsiaj Galley, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, travelling to Fundação Oriente Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
2007	“Topologies”, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
	“Hidden”, The Hospital, London
	“The Diminishing Present”, BCA Gallery, Bedford, UK
	“Aproximações”, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, Portugal
2006	“The Accidental Theorist”, Galeria Graça Brandão, Oporto, Portugal
2005	“The Diminishing Present”, Photofusion, London, travelling to The Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, La Caja Negra, Madrid, The Photographer’s Gallery (PSG), London
2004	“The rehearsal of space”, The Photographers’ Gallery (PSG), London
	“The rehearsal of space”, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, China
	“Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies”, Cadeia da Relação, Oporto, Portugal (Portuguese Centre for Photography), this exhibition toured five other European countries
2003	“Thirdspace”, Art & Photographs Gallery, Mayfair, London
2001	“L’Homme du Chagrin”, Imago Lucis Photogallery, Porto, Portugal
	“of shadows and no-places”, The Orient Foundation Gallery, Macau, China
	“Macau: Tales of Unrest”, Back Hill Gallery, London
1999	“Reflexos, desequilíbrios e espaços de intersecção”, Lou Lim Ieok exhibition pavilion, Macau, Zhuhaim, Hong-Kong, China

	Group Exhibitions
2008	“That Was Then... This Is Now” (featuring images from the series “Approaches”) – P.S1, MoMA, New York, USA
2008	“Opções e Futuros”, Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal
2007	ARCO, Galeria Graça Brandão, Madrid
	MACO, La Caja Negra, Mexico City, Mexico
	FORO SUR, La Caja Negra, Cárceres, Spain
	ART CHICAGO, The Betty Cunningham Gallery
	ZOO ART FAIR, Saatchi Gallery Online, London
	PULSE, The Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Miami
	“The Magenta Foundation Emerging Photography Award show”, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York
	“The Real Award show”, ING, Amsterdam
	“Fenómenos migratórios: exposição de fotografia e vídeo + ciclo de filmes” (Migratory Phenomena: Photography and video exhibition + film cycle), Economic and Social European Committee, Brussels (Projects in Brussels organized by Institute Camões for the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union Council)
	“The Magenta Foundation Emerging Photography Award show”, Lennox Gallery, Toronto, Canada
	“Alentejo Elementar”, Museu da Cidade, Almada, Portugal
	“Ingenuity. ‘Photography and Engineering’”, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
	“Paisagem Portuguesa Contemporânea”, The Royal Palace, Riad, Saudi-Arabia, by invitation of your royal highness the Saudi Prince Khalid Al-Faisa
	“Aperture at 55 ‘On the Wall’”, Aperture Foundation, New York
2006	ARCO, Galeria Graça Brandão, Madrid, Spain
	FORO SUR, Galeria Graça Brandão, Cárceres, Spain
	Paris Photo, The Photographer’s Gallery Bookshop, Paris
	Lisboa Art, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, Portugal
	Estampa, La Caja Negra, Madrid
	Art Salamanca, La Caja Negra, Salamanca, Spain
	“Alentejo Elementar”, Galeria Municipal de S. Sebastião, Portalegre, Portugal
	“Alentejo Elementar”, Casa da Cultura, Beja, Portugal
	“Constelações Afectivas. Part II, Gallery launch exhibition”, Galeria Graça Brandão Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
	“Alentejo Elementar”, Fundação Alentejo-Terra Mãe, Évora, Portugal
	“Constelações Afectivas. Part I, Gallery launch exhibition”, Galeria Graça Brandão Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
	“V&A permanent photography collection show featuring images from the series ‘Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies’”, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2005	FORO SUR, Galeria Graça Brandão, Cárceres, Spain
	Photo London, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
	Art Salamanca (Art y cuidad), Galeria Graça Brandão, Salamanca, Spain
	Lisboa Art, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, Portugal
	Paris Photo, The Photographer’s Gallery, Paris
	“Extensão do Ohar”, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
	“Landscapes”, Galeria Graça Brandão, Porto, Portugal
	“João Mendes Ribeiro, Daniel Malhão, Edgar Martins”, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
	“Represented”, The Photographer’s Gallery (PSG), London
2004	Photo London, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
	Paris Photo, The Photographer’s Gallery, Paris
	“The Hereford Photography Festival ’04”, City Art Gallery, Hereford, UK
	“The Jerwood Photography Award Exhibition”, Impressions Gallery, St. Paul’s Gallery and Stills Gallery, York, Birmingham, Edinburgh, UK
2002	“Urban Visions”, Flowers East Gallery, London

	Publications
	“Topologies”, monograph published by Aperture Books, New York 2008
	“Topologies of place”, published by Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra 2007
	“Aproximações”, monograph published by ANA/The Moth House, Lisbon/London 2006
	“The Diminishing Present”, monograph published by The Moth House, London 2006
	“Posição 2007: Propostas da Arte Portuguesa”, published by The Serralves Museum/O Público, Porto, Portugal
	Work published in BluePrint, Art Review, Creative Review, Next Level, Source, Portfolio & Pluk magazines, Daylight and Eyemazing magazines, L+arte, Hot Shoe magazine , SPOT, Pozytive magazine ect.

	Selected Awards and Comissions
2008	Voies Off. Rencontres D’Arles, Arles, France (Shortlisted for the Voies Off audiovisual projection evening
	Photo España Book Award, Madrid (Shorlisted for final exhibition with the book “The Diminishing Present”)
	New York Photo Awards, New York (Winner of Fine Art Category category with the series “The Accidental Theorist”)
	AOP Awards, London (Winner of the Contemporary Landscape & Cityscape Commissioned Category [Bronze] with the series “Approaches” and shortlisted for the AOP 2008 Award Book with the series “The Accidental Theorist” [Contemporary Landscape & Cityscape Personal Category])
	Hasselblad Masters, USA (Semi-finalist)
2007	Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (Nominated for Plattform 08)
	Recontres d’Arles Photobook Award, France (Shorlisted for the book “The Diminishing Present”)
	Real Photography Award, Holland (Nominated for Real Award and shortlisted for final award exhibition)
	Magenta Foundation, Canada (UK Winner of 2007 Emerging Photographers Competition)
	Grant by the Fundação Ilídio Pinho, Porto, Portugal
	Grant by the Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal
	Grant by the Arts Council, UK
	Grant by the Fundação Oriente, UK
	Magenta Foundation, Canada (UK winner of 2007 Emerging Photographers Competition)
2004	The Macau Foundation, Macau, China (commission award)
	Instituto de Estudos Europeus (IEEM), Macau, China (commission award)
	Krazsna Krauz Book Awards, London
2003	Thames & Hudson, London (book art prize presented by Thames & Hudson and RCA society for work entitled “black holes & other inconsistencies”)
	The Jerwood Photographic Award, London
	The Caloust Gubenkian Foundation Grant for Art Award, London
2001 –2002	Instituto Cultural da RAEM (Macau Cultural Institute), Macau, China (commission award for the development of a photographic project)
	Instituto de Estudos Europeus (IEEM), Macau, China (commission award for the development of a photographic project)
2000 –2001	Fundação para a Cooperação e o Desenvolvimento de Macau, Macau, China
	Fundação Oriente, Macau Portugal (commission award for the development of a photographic project)
1998 –2002	Grants by the Caloust Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, the Portuguese Centre for Photography (CPF), Oporto, Portugal, the Fundação Macau, Macau, China and the Instituto Cultural RAEM

	Public and Private Collections
	Orient Foundation, Macau, China V&A Photography Collection, London The Macau Museum of Art, Macau, China The Photographers’ Gallery, London Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal BES, Lisbon, Portugal Fundação Ilídio Pinho, Anamnese Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal Colección Vega, Spain Foursome Investments LTD, Spain

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