Rute Ventura is a member of the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory
Rute Ventura is a Portuguese multidisciplinary visual artist born in Lisbon in 1982. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sculpture in 2004 and a master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2006 from the School of Art and Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. In 2005, Rute received a grant for an abroad program of studies at the Accademia di Belli Arti in Venice, Italy. During her conceptual art studies, Rute developed skills as a critical thinker working mainly as a site-specific sculptor, teaching herself to paint years later, after her academic studies.
After moving to New York City in 2009, Rute began her career in arts education with various nonprofit affiliations that provided art workshops for endangered NYC youth; this has granted her the possibility to produce art brut from her home studio in Ridgewood, NY. Creating art outside the established cultural mainstream, not from a need to sell but with the intent of addressing and reflecting conscious awareness processes therapeutically.
Her work is said to “polarize and unite theoretical prospectives while demonstrating great technical, artistic, and creative capacities”. During the past couple of years, Rute has been distinguished as an “interesting surrealist artist” by Bizarre Doctor. She was attributed the Public Choice Award at Diversia by Exhibizone, Talent Prize, and Honorable Mentions Awards by Teravarna Art Gallery. Exhibiting at the following highlighted places: Annemarie Art Center in Solomons, MD; Venice Biennial in Italy; Cultural Center of Cape Cod, MA; Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL), Jamaica, Queens, NY; Hudson Valley MOCA, NY.
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