Mario Soares left Mozambique for South Africa in 2008. Soares graduated in 2013 and proceeded to develop his skill in etching through a constant and intense process of discovery and experimentation. He works primarily in etching on steel plates and uses the metaphor of the road to describe the process of growing up, travel, and migration. Faceless and apparently identity-less subjects who give voice to the ways in which immigrants seek to make themselves invisible in their new home country, fearful of entrenched xenophobia. In 2014, he became an intern at APS at the Pro-Shop and in May 2019 Mario launched his own Printmaking and Fine Art Studio (SO&MO) in Parkhurst, Johannesburg (South Africa).
He has been part of numerous group shows and art fairs both in Johannesburg (Turbine Art Fair) & in Cape Town (Design Week).