Rute Ventura "The Zone (diptych)"

Rute Ventura "The Zone (diptych)" 2022

Oil on Canvas 
Dimensions 12 x 12in
Unique
Signed on verso, Includes Certificate of Authenticity

Rute Ventura is a fine artist born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1982. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sculpture in 2004 and with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts in 2006 from the School of Art and Design in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Rute started her visual arts education at António Arroio High School of Arts and at the Portuguese National Society of Arts, in Lisbon. In 2005, she received a grant for an abroad program of studies at Accademia di Belli Arti in Venice, Italy and returned to the country in 2014 to study trompe l’oeil techniques at the Accademia del Superfuluo in Rome. As a multidisciplinary artist, Rute Ventura’s artwork ranges in medium from drawing and painting to sculpture, video and installation. Rute is also an art educator. After moving to New York City in 2009, she started working as a teaching artist with the nonprofit Doing Art Together, providing art workshops for under-resourced crowds in New York City public schools and alternative sites. She also collaborates with the Romare Bearden Foundation, Pequot Library in Connecticut, Start.Social in Portugal and the City College of New York.