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Graduated in Painting from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto, between 1985 and 1990. In 1998, he completed his PhD in Art History at the University of Salamanca. He was an assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto between 1988 and 2002. In 1986, he became co-founder of the Quadrado Azul gallery and, in 1994, he created the Por Amos à Arte gallery, of which he is responsible. Since 2001, he has collaborated with the Nome aos Bois Arte Contemporânea project room in Salvador. The painting of Augusto Canedo It is part of the renewal of figuration, which occurred in the 80s of the 20th century, exploring spatiality, composition and almost academic lighting. Later, he gave preference, not to figures, but rather to traces of the human figure, integrating stains, textures and natural materials, inaugurating a cycle he called “Coastland”. The proximity of the Atlantic motivated the dominant presence of blue and fossils, which has already been surpassed in recently practiced techniques such as encaustic. He obtained several distinctions, namely, Baviera Prize (2002), 1st Erotic Art Prize - Gondomar Municipal Council (2001), Almada Negreiros Prize (1995), Revelações 93 Prize - Banco Comercial de Macau (1993), Prize Augusto Gomes (1985) and Revelation Prize IV Vila Nova de Cerveira Art Biennial (1984). He held numerous solo exhibitions in Porto, Amarante, Coimbra, Toronto, Vigo, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Paris and Salvador of the Bay. He has participated in dozens of group exhibitions in the country and abroad and in several art fairs, namely in Portugal, Germany, Brazil and Greece.