Edgar Martins was the recipient of the inaugural New York Photography Award (Fine Arts category, May 2008), the BES Photography Award (Portugal, 2009), the SONY World Photography Award (2009 2018), 1st prize in the Fine Arts- Abstract category of the International Photography Awards 2010, 1st prize in the European Photography Call 2020 of the Hangar Center and nominated for the Prix Pictet 2009 as well as the Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography in 2020 & 2021. Edgar was selected to represent Macau (China) at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2010, the Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Center (Paris) hosted the first retrospective exhibition of Edgar Martins. Edgar Martins has exhibited extensively at institutions such as PS1 MoMA (New York), MOPA (San Diego, USA), Centro de Arte Moderna (Lisbon), MAAT (Lisbon), CIAJG (Guimarães, Portugal), Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica (Rio de Janeiro), The New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK), The Gallery of Photography (Dublin), Ffotogallery (Penarth, Wales),Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), Leicester New Walk Museum, The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, The Geneva Photography Centre, among many others.
In 1996 he moved to the UK, where he completed a BA in Photography and Social Sciences at the University of the Arts, as well as an MA in Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art (London). Edgar Martins was born in Évora (Portugal), but grew up in Macau (China), where he published his first novel entitled Mãe deixa-me fazer o pino.
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