Born Évora, Portugal, 1977
Edgar Martins lives and works in the UK
   
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
   
2013 This is not a House (touring show, Tullie House Art Gallery & Museum, Carlisle (UK)
This is not a House (touring show, Ffotogallery (Wales)
2012 This is not a House (touring show, The Wapping Project, London (UK)
This is not a House (touring show, Gallery of Photography, Dublin (Ireland)
A Metaphysical Survey of British Dwellings & Dwarf Exoplanets - solo show at Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea (Rio de Janeiro)
This is not a House - solo show at Zandari Gallery (Seoul)
2011 The Time Machine, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon
A Metaphysical Survey of British Dwellings, Galerie Melanie Rio
This is not a House (touring show), The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall (UK)
This is not a House (touring show), Camera16, Milan
A Metaphysical Survey of British Dwellings, Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo
2010 This is not a House, The Photographers’ Gallery (PSG), London
A Metaphysical Survey of British Dwellings, HS Gallery, London
Reluctant Monoliths, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
The Wayward Line, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris
2009 Topologies, Orient Foundation Museum, Lisbon
Reluctant Monoliths, Galerie Melanie Rio, Nantes, France
When Light Casts no Shadow, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon
The Accidental Theorist, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
When Light Casts no Shadow, Porta 33 , Madeira
When Light Casts no Shadow, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
2008 When Light Casts no Shadow, Galerie Melanie Rio, Nantes, France
Topologies, La Caja Negra, Madrid
Topologies, Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Topologies, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Aproximações, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon
The Diminishing Present, BCA Gallery, Bedford, England
The Diminishing Present, Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
2006 The Diminishing Present, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York
The Diminishing Present, La Caja Negra, Madrid
The Rehearsal of Space, The Photographer’s Gallery (PSG), London
The Accidental Theorist, Galeria Graça Brandão, Oporto, Portugal
2005 The Diminishing Present, Photofusion, London
2004 The Rehearsal of Space, Macau Art Museum, Macau, China
Black Holes and Other Inconsistencies, Cadeia da Relação (Portuguese Centre of Photography), Oporto, Portugal
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
   
2012 The Near and the Elsewhere - PM Gallery & House (London), also featuring Frances Alÿs, Sarah Beddington, Edward Burtynsky, James Casebere, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Peter Piller and Rachel Whiteread.
2011 Something That I’ll Never Really See, Contemporary Phot. From the V&A, Salar Jung Museum (Hyderabad, India)
Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber, Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra (a FCTUC & Museu Nacional - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro co-production. This exhibition will also be presented at Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.)
Infinite Balance, Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) San Diego
Migration & Nomadic Living, Backlight Festival, Tampere Kunsthalle
The Burrow, SIAKOS.HANAPPE House of Art, Athens
The 54th Venice Biennale International Art Exhbition, Memory & Mobility, Macau, China Pavilion
2010 Da Outra Margem do Atlântico: alguns exemplos de videoarte e fotografia portuguesa, Centro de arte Hélio Oiticica
Something That I’ll Never Really See, Contemporary Phot. From the V&A, BHAU Daji Lad Museum (Mumbai)
A Culpa não é minha (obras da colecção António Cachola), Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
15 min exhibition, Paraty em Foco, Paraty (Brazil)
15 min exhibition, Ateliê da Imagem Espaço Cultural, Rio de Janeiro
Da Outra Margem do Atlântico –alguns exemplos de videoarte e fotografia portuguesa, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
Des lendemaisn qui chantent, Galerie Melanie Rio, Nantes
What Lies Beneath, Swedish Embassy, Washington, Foto DC Week
Prix Pictet Show, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki
Prix Pictet Show, The Empty Quarter, Dubai
Prix Pictet Show, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
Jogo de Espelhos, Museu de Arte Comtemporânea de Elvas, Elvas
2009 Lá Fora, Portuguese Artists, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon
BES Award Berardo Museum (Belém Cultural Centre), Lisbon
Format Festival, Derby
International Photography Festival, Lodz, Poland
Opções e Futuros, PLMJ Collection, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
Estuaire, Nantes Art Biennial 2009
NYPHA, Invitational Pavilion, Tobacco Warehouse, New York Scope Basel, The New Empire, Contemporary Chinese Photography, Miami Paisagem, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra
Entre o Céu e o Mar, organized by Centro de Artes Visuais for Centro Cultural de Lagos in the context of "Art Algarve 2009"
Prix Pictet Award, Passage de Retz, Paris
2008 Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China
Terry O’Neil Award, Fulham Palace, London
ING Real Photography Award, Las Palmas Museum, Rotterdam
Opções e Futuros, PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon
Linha do Horizonte, Centro Cultural da Caixa Económica Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Contemporary Portuguese Photography, Museu da Presidência da República, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
That Was Then... This is Now, P.S. 1, MoMA, New York
Immoral Facts & Fables, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
2007 On the Wall: Aperture Magazine ’05-’06, Aperture Gallery, New York
Migratory Phenomena: Photography and Video + Film Cycle, Economic and Social European Committee, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Alentejo Elementar, Galeria Municipal de São Sebastião, Portalegre; (this show toured other Portuguese Museums)
Constelações Afectivas, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, Portugal
Selections from the Permanent Photography Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2005 Represented, The Photographer's Gallery (Print Sales Gallery), London
Newly Commissioned Work Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, Portugal
Extensão do Ohar, Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, Portugal
2004 The Jerwood Photography Awards Winners Exhibition 2003, Jerwood Space London (this show toured other UK galleries)
   
PUBLICATIONS
   
2011 Two Degrees of Separation, EDP Portugal
This is not a Hose, Dewi Lewis
2010 The Wayward Line, Centre Culturel Caloust Gulbenkian
2009 When Light Casts no Shadow, Dewi Lewis
BES Photo Award, Berardo Museum
‘Future Images’, guide to top 100 contemporary artists – published by 24ore Motta Cultura and curated by Raul Cresci & Radu Stern
Sotheby’s Guide co collecting Photography – published by Thames & Hudson and written by Jocelyn Phillips
Peter D. Osborne ‘The Unreachable Landscape: Some Themes in Photography in England from 1990 to 2007’ in Cahier Fotografie nr. 2, 09, Belgium
2008 Edgar Martins: Topologies, Aperture
Topologies, Centro de Artes Visuais
2006 The Diminishing Present, The Moth House Approaches, ANA
2003 Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies, The Moth House
   
SELECTED AWARDS
   
2011 Selected for AI-AP
Selected for Voies off 2011
Winning Entry Pro Photographer Awards 2010
2010 Artist Level Runners-Up: Photography Contest, Forward Thinking Museum
2010 Winner International photography Awards, Fine Art Abstract Category Finalist LICC
Selected for AP+AI Annual, USA
2009 Second Prize for SONY World Photography Awards
Winner BES Photo Award
Finalist Prix Pictet Award
2008 Selected for ING Real Photography Award
AOP Awards, Winner, Contemporary Landscape & Cityscape
Semi-finalist in the Hasselblad Photography Masters
New York Photography Awards, Winner, Fine Art Category
Shortlisted for Arles and Photo Espanã Book Awards
Second Prize for Terry O Neil Award
Selected for the Format Festival 2009
Awarded National Media Museum Bursary
2007 Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers Competition, Winner, UK Category, Toronto, Canada
Awarded Arts Council Grants for Arts
2004 Infinity Awards, Finalist, Young Photographers Category
2003 RCA Society and Thames & Hudson Art Book Prize for ‘Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies’
The Jerwood Photography Awards, Winner
 
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
National Media Museum, Bradford
Caloust Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
BES, Portugal
Orient Foundation, Macau, China
MACE (Contemporary Art Museum), Elvas, Portugal
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
Fundação EDP, Portugal
Fundation Carminac, France