Artist Eduardo Matos wins FLAD Design Award at the Drawing Room Fair

O artist Eduardo Matos won unanimously the Luso-American Foundation for Development Design Award (FLAD) 2026, announced today the contemporary art fair Drawing Room Lisbon, partner of the award.

Eduardo Matos’ work “articulates, with particular intelligence and sensitivity, a project dimension with a meticulous design work”, says the jury quoted in a press release.

“The experience lived has as reference a specific territory of Lisbon — the neighborhood of Mouraria —, which incorporates the passage of time and social transformations as a matter of artistic creation”, praises the jury.

According to the organization, Eduardo Matos was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1970, grew up in Porto and lives and works in Lisbon. “He is editor of Inland Journal and curator of various projects. Throughout his career, he was a fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and a founding member of the Olympic Hall”.

In addition to Eduardo Matos, the artists Catarina Real, Rudi Brito, Inês Teixeira and Tomás Cunha Ferreira were finalists, and the work of all was exposed until 31 October at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (SNBA), in Lisbon.

The 9th edition of the Drawing Room Lisbon, an international art fair dedicated to drawing, began on Thursday and ends on Sunday at SNBA, with the presence of 23 galleries and more than 70 artists.

In partnership with other entities, such as the National Press, the Millennium Bcp Foundation or Viarco, the Drawing Room Fair also recognized Diogo Pimentão, Nadya Ismail, Samuel Rama, João Jacinto, .