He graduated from the Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes of Uruguay in 1990, from the workshop of Ernesto Aroztegui. He also studied for four years at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad de la República. Additionally, through a scholarship, he studied engraving with Luis Camnitzer in Valdottavo (Italy) and took video courses ("El ojo disidente") and philosophy of art with Andrea Carriquiry. Among other distinctions, he has won the First Prize at the Salón Nacional twice (2004 and 2012), the Bicentennial Painting Prize (2011), the Montevideo Municipal Biennial (1994), and the Paul Cézanne Prize (1991), which earned him a study scholarship in France.He has participated in multiple biennials: the first and fifth Mercosur Biennials in Porto Alegre (Brazil, 1997 and 2005), the Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador, 2001), the IV Bienal Do ut do "La morale dei singoli" in Pompeii (Italy, 2018-2019), and the Beijing Biennale (China, 2021). In 2024, he will represent his country at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia with the work "Latente."Since the late 1980s, he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, the United States, Germany, Spain, Austria, France, and China. His work is part of significant public and private collections in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Germany, France, and the United States.In 2008, the Argentine publisher Arte al Día released the book Eduardo Cardozo: Obras realizadas entre 1990 y 2008, which offers an extensive and deep look into his work.He has participated in several international art fairs, including Arteamericas (Miami, with Galería Sur, 2006), arteba (Buenos Aires, with Galería Sur, 2006), Cornice Art Fair (Venice, with Galería Sur, 2007), ARCOmadrid (with Galería Sur, 2008), SP-Arte (São Paulo, with Galería Sur, 2022), ESTE ARTE (Punta del Este, with Galería Sur, 2017-2023), and Pinta Miami (with AppArt Paris, 2023).Since the 1990s, he has become more involved with performance and the performing arts. He designed the set for No matarás by Tamara Cubas (Teatro Victoria, 2003) and for Intento cero by Graciela Figueroa (Teatro Solís, 1996). He was a member of the performance group Moxhelis between 1992 and 1994. He has also carried out interventions in public spaces, such as the works Contrato de trabajo (2005) in Porto Alegre, El Quijote de Tres Cruces in Montevideo (unfinished, 1994), and Señal de ajuste (2007), an intervention using private media. Together with Álvaro Zinno, he created the videos Estampitas (1990), Like a piece of the sky, of the sky (1990), and Basal (2020), and with Agustín Banchero and Lucas Cilintano, he created the video La conciencia de Sísifo (2012), a work that earned them the Grand Acquisition Prize at the 55th Wifredo Díaz Valdéz National Visual Arts Prize.Cardozo has also participated in collective projects and collaborated with other artists. He worked with Fernando Peirano in the workshop "El sitio de Montevideo." In 1999, along with Jorge Barreiro, he created the installation La quimera de la seguridad, o cómo vivir sin correr riesgos in the Atrio of the Montevideo City Hall. In 2012, he carried out an intervention at Estancia Vik in José Ignacio, in 2015, Casa tierra at Bahía Vik, in 2016, a series of murals at Playa Vik, in the tasting room and the barrel room at Viña Vik (Chile), and a mural at the hotel of the chain in Chile. In 2019, he made interventions at Galleria Vik Milano (Italy) and in 2023, he created an extensive mural for the restaurant La Susana at the Hotel Bahía Vik José Ignacio (Uruguay).Regarding his teaching activities, he has given seminars on contemporary painting in Casablanca and hosts students from the IAVA high school, the Instituto de Profesores Artigas, and artists in his studio, where he exchanges ideas about art.