Born on February 18, 1957, in Alfred, New York, Eduardo Höfling Milani is a visual artist, architect, and educator whose work moves fluidly across the boundaries of art, design, and academic thought. He lives and works in Brazil.

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Milani holds a bachelor's degree (1982) and a master's degree (1995) in Architecture and Urbanism from Mackenzie Presbyterian University, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Education, Arts, and Cultural History in 2020 — a trajectory that reflects a lifelong commitment to understanding not only how things are made, but what they mean.

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Drawing has always been at the center of his practice. During his years of architectural training, exhibitions at the student council opened unexpected doors, leading him to the Carbono 14 Cultural Center — an early sign that his path would resist easy categorization. Architecture gave him a structural vision of the world; everything else he built upon it.

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In the decades that followed, Milani worked across residential and architectural projects, product design, and visual planning, extending his practice into advertising — a field that sharpened his eye for image, language, and cultural communication. He taught for more than two decades at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, as well as at UNIP, UniABC, and Anhembi Morumbi, and has published widely on media, semiotics, and art as a founding member of the research group Language, Society, Identity: Studies on Media.

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A turning point came in 2015, when an extension course in contemporary art at the University of the Arts London (UAL) deepened his engagement with theoretical and practical artistic languages — themes he continued to explore throughout his doctoral research.

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His current work inhabits the visual territory of pop art, shaped by years of immersion in advertising layouts for posters, album covers, magazines, and books. But in the studio, those habits of the commercial world become raw material for something freer. Drawing, painting, collage, and assemblage converge in a practice where abstraction and narrative coexist — images that carry the energy of popular culture while reaching toward a poetics beyond its limits.