Biography
Bruna Massadas (b. 1985, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a painter based in Bozeman, Montana. Recently her work has been exhibited at The Pit (Los Angeles), Bozomag (Los Angeles), My Pet Ram (New York), McClain Gallery (Houston) and Gallery 16 (San Francisco). She also exhibited in two-person shows with Raymie Iadevaia (2022, Bozomag) and Daniel Gibson (2017, Some.Time.Salon). From 2018-2021 she exhibited with Binder of Women, and from 2016-2018 she was a member of CTRL+SHFT collective. Massadas earned her BFA at California State University, Fullerton and MFA at California College of the Arts (2012).
Massadas transcendent landscapes, bursting with color, are as isolating as they are sublime. Merging the tropical vistas of her native Rio de Janeiro with the volcanic formations of the neighboring Yellowstone Park, her work envisions a strange planet: a world of abundant space, possibility, and color, but also a world of scarcity. Life, on this planet, exists in solitude. Suns and moons rise over dormant peaks. The future of this world in repose seems an eternity away from catastrophe — perhaps because the catastrophe has already happened, and now is the time for regrowth.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2025
The Edge of the World, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Sun Flower, de boer, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Art Fair, McClain Gallery, Dallas, TX
Rothko Chapel Benefit Art Auction, Houston, TX
2024
Bruna Massadas Installation, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Unearth, sidebitch project space, Los Angeles, CA
When the Sun Turns Back and the Moon Sits Still, Visions West Contemporary, Bozeman, MT
I Came to See You, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Reseeding, City Centre Houston, Houston, TX
Dallas Art Fair, McClain Gallery, Dallas, TX
2023
Mountain Pose, Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman, MT
NADA, The Pit, Miami, FL
We’re Outta Here, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
Artsy Foundations, Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA (online)
Headlands Auction 2023, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2022
Colors Flying (with Raymie Iadevaia), Bozo Mag, Los Angeles, CA
More Than My Hands Can Hold, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Night, Blue Door Gallery, Hollywood Hills, CA
A Loop, Triangle & Trapezoid, Bozo Mag, Los Angeles, CA
A Loop, Triangle & Trapezoid, Bozo Mag, Pasadena, CA
Last Generation: A Group Figurative Show, Echo Arts, Bozeman, MT
Character, Moth Flower, @mothflower_
Physics and Fiction, Saint Joseph’s Art Society, San Francisco, CA
Search Party, My Pet Ram, New York, NY
Physics and Fiction, CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
Bruna Massadas (b. 1985, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a painter based in Bozeman, Montana. Recently her work has been exhibited at The Pit (Los Angeles), Bozomag (Los Angeles), My Pet Ram (New York), McClain Gallery (Houston) and Gallery 16 (San Francisco). She also exhibited in two-person shows with Raymie Iadevaia (2022, Bozomag) and Daniel Gibson (2017, Some.Time.Salon). From 2018-2021 she exhibited with Binder of Women, and from 2016-2018 she was a member of CTRL+SHFT collective. Massadas earned her BFA at California State University, Fullerton and MFA at California College of the Arts (2012).
Massadas transcendent landscapes, bursting with color, are as isolating as they are sublime. Merging the tropical vistas of her native Rio de Janeiro with the volcanic formations of the neighboring Yellowstone Park, her work envisions a strange planet: a world of abundant space, possibility, and color, but also a world of scarcity. Life, on this planet, exists in solitude. Suns and moons rise over dormant peaks. The future of this world in repose seems an eternity away from catastrophe — perhaps because the catastrophe has already happened, and now is the time for regrowth.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2025
The Edge of the World, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Sun Flower, de boer, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Art Fair, McClain Gallery, Dallas, TX
Rothko Chapel Benefit Art Auction, Houston, TX
2024
Bruna Massadas Installation, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Unearth, sidebitch project space, Los Angeles, CA
When the Sun Turns Back and the Moon Sits Still, Visions West Contemporary, Bozeman, MT
I Came to See You, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Reseeding, City Centre Houston, Houston, TX
Dallas Art Fair, McClain Gallery, Dallas, TX
2023
Mountain Pose, Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman, MT
NADA, The Pit, Miami, FL
We’re Outta Here, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
Artsy Foundations, Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA (online)
Headlands Auction 2023, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2022
Colors Flying (with Raymie Iadevaia), Bozo Mag, Los Angeles, CA
More Than My Hands Can Hold, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Night, Blue Door Gallery, Hollywood Hills, CA
A Loop, Triangle & Trapezoid, Bozo Mag, Los Angeles, CA
A Loop, Triangle & Trapezoid, Bozo Mag, Pasadena, CA
Last Generation: A Group Figurative Show, Echo Arts, Bozeman, MT
Character, Moth Flower, @mothflower_
Physics and Fiction, Saint Joseph’s Art Society, San Francisco, CA
Search Party, My Pet Ram, New York, NY
Physics and Fiction, CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA