REPRESENTED BY:
GALERIA GRAÇA BRANDÃO, LISBON PORTUGAL
COLLINS GALLERIES, ORLEANS CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 

Born:  1980, New Jersey
Education:  1999-2003 Parsons School of Design
2003-2005 New York Academy of Art

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024
Museo Europeo de Arte Moderno
MODPortrait
Barcelona, Spain

2023
Museo Europeo de Arte Moderno
Figurativas 2023
Barcelona, Spain

Galeria Graça Brandão

Limpezas de Primavera
Lisbon, Portugal

2022
Galeria Graça Brandão
Fénix Parte II
Lisbon, Portugal

2022
Museo Europeo de Arte Moderno
Figurativas 2022
Barcelona, Spain

2021
Collins Galleries
Winter Small Works Exhibition
Cape Cod, Massachusetts

2020
Portuguese Embassy
PALCUS National Conference
Virtual Exhibition

2020
Collins Galleries
Summer Exhibition
Cape Cod, Massachusetts

2020
Collins Galleries
Winter Exhibition
Cape Cod, Massachusetts

2019
Collins Galleries
Summer Exhibition
Cape Cod, Massachusetts

2018
Collins Galleries
Small works
Cape Cod, Massachusetts

2018
Collins Galleries
Summer Exhibition
Cape Cod, Massachusetts

2018
Abbaye Saint André - Centre d’Art Contemporain de Meymac
Scéne Portugaise
Corrèze, France

2017
Collins Galleries
Small works
Cape Cod, Massachusetts

2016
Museu Afro Brasil
Portugal Portugueses
São Paulo, Brazil

Galeria Graça Brandão
Constelaçoes Afectivas
Lisbon, Portugal

2015
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
New York, New York

2015
Affero Gallery
Lucky 7
Newark, New Jersey

2014
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
New York, New York

2013
The Ex-Photo Show
Praxedis Guerrero
New York, New York
 
2012
University of Maine Museum of Art
The Moment
Bangor, Maine
 
Arbermarle Gallery
Group show
London, England
 
ARCOmadrid
Madrid, Spain
 
2011
Galeria Graça Brandão
Estratégia ou o Dom da Ubiquidade
Lisbon, Portugal
 
Eleanor Ettinger Gallery
One-man Exhibition
New York, New York
 
The Arte Institute
Larger than Life
New York, New York

2010
The Kitchen/Whitney ISP
Beauty for the Ashes
Undercurrents: Experimental
ecosystems in Recent Art
Curated by Pablo Helguera
New York, New York
 
Eleanor Ettinger Gallery
Group show
New York, New York

2009
Museu da Electricidade
Lá Fora
Lisbon, Portugal
 
2008
Museu da Presidência da República
Lá Fora
Viana do Castelo, Portugal
 
Eleanor Ettinger Gallery
One-man Exhibition
New York, New York

2007
Eleanor Ettinger Gallery
Group Show
New York, New York

2006
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
BP Award
Edinburgh, Scotland
 
National Portrait Gallery
BP Award
London, England

2005
Allied Artists of America
Group Exhibition

Eleanor Ettinger Gallery
Group Exhibition
New York, New York

2004
Salmagundi Club
Audubon Exhibition
New York, New York

Society of Illustrators
Scholarship Exhibition
New York, New York

2003
Society of Illustrators
Scholarship Exhibition
New York, New York

Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
Thesis Exhibition
New York, New York

AWARDS 

2022
Figurativas 2022
Finalist

2019
Art Renewal
14th International ARC Salon

2006
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc
Recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant
 
National Portrait Gallery
BP Award
Finalist

2005
A.A.L.P. Grand National
Frank C. Wright Memorial

2004
Audubon Exhibition
Best in show

Society of Illustrators
Scholarship Competition


MUSEUM COLLECTION

 2011
Tribunal Constitucional
Lisbon, Portugal
 
2006
Nevada Museum of Art
John and Mary Lou Paxton Collection

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2023
Tell Them You Love Me

Documentary
Directed by Nick August Perna

2022
Descendencias Magazine
Portuguese Arts and Artists
Text by Terry Costa

2022
PORTICO MAGAZINE
Portraits of Intimacy
Text by Patricia Barnabé

2020
Provokr
Michael De Brito’s Studio
Capturing Realistic Moments with Alla Prima
Written by Sarah J.Kings

2016
Portuguese American Journal
Visual artist: Michael De Brito is honest, immediate and intimate
Written by Millicent Borges Accardi
 

2012
CNN iReport
Interview
Written by Pedro Fernandes
 
RTP Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Interview for Portuguese Television
  
2007
Huffington Post
The Artist Who made his Ego
Wait Outside the Door
 
2006
Paxton Collection
Selections from the
John and Mary Lou
Nevada Museum of Art
 
2004
SIC Sociedade Independente de Comunicação
Interview for Portuguese Television


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2023
Montclair Art Museum,
Intro to Oil Painting
Private Sessions

2021
The Madison Art Studio,
Virtual Interactive Online Art Workshops

2015 - 2020
One River School of Art and Design, Englewood, New Jersey
Adult painting program, Teen painting & portfolio development program

2017
Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
Continuing Education Adult Program

2016
Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
Pre-college Painting Intensive

The Arts Guild Rahway, New Jersey
Painting the Portrait

2015
Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
Core Lab 2D

StudioKids Art, Montclair, New Jersey
Painting intensive

The Art Garage Montclair, New Jersey
Intermediate and Advanced painting

2011
Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
Visiting Artist

2009
Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
Visiting Artist