Bruno Castro Santos
Bruno Castro Santos, born in Lisbon in 1972, lived in the United States from 1990 to 1998, where he completed a Bachelor of Architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He furthered his academic studies by earning a Master’s Degree in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University in New York. After a decade of practicing architecture and teaching in Portugal, he gradually shifted his focus to fine arts, culminating in the completion of an Advanced Fine Arts Degree from Ar.Co in 2012.
Since 2012, Bruno has exhibited his work both collectively and individually in major galleries, institutional, and cultural venues in Portugal and abroad. Notable exhibitions include those at the Lisbon Natural History Museum (2012), the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation in Évora (2012), the Viscondes de Balsemão Municipal Gallery in Porto (2015), the Contemporary Art Center in Málaga, Spain (2015), as well as the Tête Project Space in Berlin, Bekanze Project Space in Miami, and the Phillip & Patricia Frost Art Museum (2023). His work is represented in several institutional collections, including The Benetton Foundation, The Malaga Center for Contemporary Art, the Portuguese Republic Museum, the Rudin Foundation, David Foster Collection, Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, Esteves de Oliveira Collection, and the Phillip & Patricia Frost Art Museum Collection (USA). Bruno currently resides and works in Lisbon and Miami.