Lisbon, 1981, of Portuguese and Angolan descent.
BA Fine Arts, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design (London 2004), MA Visual Anthropology, FCSH - UNL (Lisbon 2012).
Winner of the Sonae Media Art Award in 2015.
Grants include Artist in Residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien International Studio Programme (Berlin, 2016).
Macedo's first film "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy" 2012 (shot at Tate Britain and Tate Modern) was awarded the SAW Film Prize by the American Anthropological Association (2014) and screenings include International Film Festivals, Tate Britain and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Video Programme in Amsterdam (2012).
Selected exhibitions at MAAT, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, ZDB Gallery, Jeju Biennial of Contemporary Art, Iwalewahaus, Fundacion DIDAC, Gnration, CAV-Centro de Artes Visuais, Appleton Square, Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Culturgest, MNAC- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunstraum Botschaft Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Tegenboschvanvreden, Nuno Centeno and Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Ano Zero Biennial, Paris Photo, Photo Basel, Arco Madrid.
