Born in 1946 in Angola, where he was introduced to the art world, Carlos Calado began teaching art at the age of 19. He attended the Course of Decorative Arts in Luanda and the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon. He interned with Alberto Flocon, focusing entirely on printmaking and the variety of its technical processes, in his own words "bringing the knowledge of sculpture into printmaking (...) a certain modulation, the three dimensions." He works at Atelier Graff, where he teaches lithography and is a member of the Quebec Print Council. He resides in Montreal, Canada. Notable exhibitions from his curriculum include: Solo exhibitions - Port Gallery - Maurice, Montreal, 1982; Central Metropolitan Library, Main Gallery, Toronto, 1985; Convergence Gallery, Montreal, 1985; Bocage House, Municipal Gallery of Visual Arts, Setúbal, 1989. Group exhibitions - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, III National Print Exhibition, Lisbon, 1981/82; Quebec Print Council, Motivation V, Estampe Dessein, 1983; Taipei City Art Museum, Thailand, International Print Exhibit, 1983/84; Montreal Congress Palace, 2nd National Art Gallery Salon, 1984; Gallery of Art Exhibitions, 4th International Exhibition Small Graphic Forms, Lodz, Poland, 1985; La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine, exhibition at the Grand Palace in Paris, Museum of Drawing and Original Print in Gravelines, France, 1985. In 1986, he received the III Máximo Ramos Engraving Prize, Bello Pineiro Museum in Ferrol, Spain.