Bio

Brisk. Dry. The typical mountainside mid-summer night in Feira de São Mateus. The city is lively. Music and lights. Loud talking and laughter. Children running through the crowd – anxious perhaps for the carnival rides that whir and echo in the distance down narrow cobbled streets. Their parents, young and the old, bargaining with gypsy vendors. Nostalgia is prevalent with the familiar. It was here, in this market place where I saw them – tiny baby Christs inside a small cardboard box, 0.50€ each. They were naked, piled over each other…beautiful and mesmerizing.

It’s good to go back to where things started. The city where I was born.

My name is Eduardo Cunha. I was born in Viseu, a city tucked in the Central Inlands of Portugal. I immigrated to The United States in 1990. I received academic training at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. After graduating, I moved to Newark currently work in advertising.  

My work retains a clear imprint of my Portuguese/American experience. Mostly influenced by quiet narratives I perceive between the two cultures. I explore concepts of heteronyms and identity. I find logic in intuition, merging parallels between objects, materials, people and their histories. I view my work as autobiographical with incomplete story-lines. I invite viewers to complete the open-ended narratives and to form their own conclusions with what is seen.