BRUNA MASSADAS’ (b. 1985, Brazil) paintings depict a new world in silence, with solitary birds, rivers and mountains in meditative calm. Now living in Montana, Bruna Massadas draws from the extreme landscapes of both regions to create her current body of work. Merging the tropical vistas of her native Rio de Janeiro with the volcanic formations of her neighboring Yellowstone Park, her work envisions a strange planet: a world of abundant space, possibility, and color, but also a world of scarcity.
From 2018–2021 Massadas exhibited with Binder of Women, and from 2016–2018 she was a member of CTRL+SHFT collective. Recently her work has been exhibited at The Pit (Los Angeles), Bozomag (Los Angeles), My Pet Ram (New York), and Gallery 16 (San Francisco). She also exhibited in two-person shows with Raymie Iadevaia (2022, Bozomag) and Daniel Gibson (2017, Some.Time.Salon). Massadas earned her BFA at California State University, Fullerton (2009) and MFA at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California (2012). In 2025, she was awarded a Creative West Grant; she had a solo exhibition at de boer Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Massadas is represented by McClain Gallery; her first solo exhibition, The Edge of the World, with the gallery was in May 2025.