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Rute Ventura, Magnetic Field, 2024, oil on canvas, 30"x33"

Rute Ventura is a Portuguese multidisciplinary visual artist born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1982 based in NYC. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Sculpture in 2004 and a Masters degree in Fine Arts in 2006 at Escola Superior de Arte e Design (ESAD), 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. Going back to Italy in 2014 to learn Trompe L'oeil techniques at the Accademia del Superfuluo, in Rome.

After moving to New York City, in 2009, Rute began a parallel career in Arts Education, providing art workshops for under-resourced NYC Public Schools; while working on her art at her home-studio in Ridgewood, Queens, NY.

During the last few years Rute has been distinguished as an "Interesting Surrealist Artist" by Bizarre Doctor, and became part of the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Artists Directory; exhibiting her artwork 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 in Queens, NY; Hudson Valley MOCA.

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