Odair Augusto Rocha Monteiro, was born in Cape Verde on March 9, 1982
He is co-founder of the collective Gmurda, which develops their artistic practice around video and performance, since 2012.
In 2019 he participated in the Catchupa Factuary artist residency in Cape Verde
He attended the Master in artistic photography at IPCI (Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem) in the city Porto, Portugal ,
Some of his most recent work, the participation in the collective exhibitions: “Alegria Lab”- Porto 2020/ “Unearting Memories” – Porto 2019 / “Portrait Show” – Johannesburg 2020 / “Family Maters” – Maputo 2020 / “Dissident Planets” online exhibition 2020.“/Trabalho Nenhum” Porto 2021 / “Our (Spatial) Stories Live In Performative Futures” – Lisboa 2022 / “Íntimo a político: um avatar coletivo”_ Colective InterStruct – Porto 2022