Caio Fonseca in his Pietrasanta studio, Summer 2004.

Caio Fonseca, American, born 1959, was raised in New York City. In 1978 he went to Barcelona where he studied and painted until 1983. He moved to Pietrasanta (Lucca) in 1985 where he worked until 1989. After two years in Paris, he returned to New York and now divides his time between Pietrasanta and his studio in Manhattan on East Fifth Street. His works are held in numerous public and private collections in Europe and the United States.

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
The United States Embassy, Sofia, Bulgaria
The United States Embassy, Vienna, Austria
The United States Embassy, Manila, The Philippines
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton Ohio
Cesar Pelli, architect. Reagan National Airport Washington D.C., Mural commission.
Renzo Piano, architect. Bovis Lend Lease, Aurora Place, Sydney, Australia Mural commission.
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, California
Goldman Sachs, New York, New York
The Microsoft Collection, Seattle, Washington
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) Valencia, Spain