Samate
Samate Mulungo was born in 1939, in the Xipamanine borough of Lourenço Marques, today Maputo.
He is a self taught artist and started painting in 1952. He worked during many years with a maritime navigation firm , linked to the Ports and Railways of Mozambique, before dedicating himself since 1972 exclusively to painting.
He held his first solo exhibition in 1959 in Lourenço Marques, today Maputo. In 1991 he was invited to be part of the “ Heritage 1991” Jury of the national Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Exhibitions
- 1962 - First solo exhibition, Lourenço Marques
- 1991 - 1997 - he held four individual exhibitions in Maputo
- He participated in a great number of collective exhibitions in Mozambique and abroad, namely in Chicago (USA), Germany, England, Angola, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Nigeria and India
- In 1997 he participated in Lisbon in the exhibition “ The 120 best artists in the World”
- Samate obtained the First Prize in painting of the Railways of Mozambique in 1962