Edson chagas biography of nancy

Chagas was born in 1977 in Luanda, Angola, and lives between Angola and Portugal.

He studied photography at the University of Wales in Newport (2008); London College of Communication (2007); and Portugal's Escola Técnica de Imagem e Comunicação (2002) and Centro Comunitário de Arcena (1999).

In 2013, Chagas’s Found Not Taken series was exhibited in Luanda, Encyclopedic City, the Angolan Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, winning the Golden Lion for best national pavilion.

The series subsequentlyfeatured in the inaugural exhibitions at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town (2017). He was one of three artists shortlisted for the 11th Novo Banco Photo Award, with an exhibition at Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2015).

He is among the recipients of the 2018 African Art Award presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.

Solo exhibitions have taken place at the Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna (2016); Instituto Camões – Centro Cultural Português, Luanda (2