Malu Ribeiro

Malu Ribeiro is a Brazilian born US-Swiss citizen who has lived in 9 different countries, including a 28 year residence in the US. She began formal art training attending assiduously the atelier of the Argentinian surrealist painter/printmaker A. Castro Couso, during her high school years in Vigo, Galicia. During those 4 years, she participated in group exhibitions with his atelier beginning her 2nd year of attendance at 17 years of age. After moving to the US, she pursued a BFA in Theater at URI. Years later, after living in Paris, she returned and completed an MFA in Print-making at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (USA). She also became state certified Visual Arts & Theater teacher, and taught in pre-college and college as well. Malu has received honors and awards in juried competitions, including participation at the Pratt Fine Arts Symposium organised by sculptor Prof. Jillian Jagger, and guest speaker Laura Hopman (then, curator of the Depart. of Drawing & Paper Arts at MOMA). She received Honorable Mention at the New York/New England Talent competition organised by University of Massachusetts. She also received a Merit Award at the International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, by art historian and critic, Don...

SBU - MA in Art History & Criticism (all requirements completed minus unfinished thesis, no degree), NY 2015-2017.
Visual Arts & Theater Teacher Certification, DOE, NY, 2005. Education courses @ Fordham & CUNY.
PRATT INSTITUTE - MFA in Printmaking (degree), NY 1996-1998.
URI - BFA in Theater (degree), RI 1987-1990.
ATELIER Abracadabra - Drawing, Painting, Monotype - group exhibits, Vigo, Spain, 1984-87.

ART EXHIBITIONS & CURATORIAL PROJECTS LIST

FALL 2024 UPintheAR! 2024, II Edition, public arts exhibition, international artists installations on
Rua Brito Capelo (pedestrian area), Matosinhos, PT
SUM 2023 Bela Biennial, VI Edition, main exhibition, international art expo, Helsinki & Varkaus, FI

MAY 2023 Bela Biennial, VI Edition, Part I, Poleeni Cultural Center, Pieksämäki, FI

NOV 2022 The Game of Art, Part II, group show, AVA International Gallery, Varkaus, FI

OCT 2022 Louvre Carrousel Art Fair, art expo, AVA International Gallery, Paris, FR

AUG 2022 The Game of Art, international group show, AVA Gallery, Helsinki, FI

JUN 2022 AVA Art Festival, large group show, AVA Gallery & ENOCO Cultural Art Center, Osaka, JP

MAR 2022 ALL YOU NEED IS ART (fair) '22, art expo, Galeria Eslabon, Lisbon, PT

FEB 2022 ARTIST360 MADRID 2022, Contemporary Art Week, as Galeria Eslabon, Madrid, SP

OCT 2021 KUNST Berlin 2021, intern. group show, Galeria Zero & Lite-Haus Cultural Center, Berlin, GE

JAN 2020 Art Fair Carnavalesque, NY artists group show, Van Der Plas Gallery, Manhattan, NY, US

JUL 2019 SOBE & DESCE, synchronized independent art gallery & studio crawl, selected curated art
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