João Ruas (b. 1981) is a visual artist from São Paulo, Brazil. After graduating with a BA in Graphic Design, he has worked inside studios in the United Kingdom and Brazil before doing primarily personal artwork and exhibitions.
" João Ruas paints a haunting world inhabited by enigmatic figures and regal beasts awash in a maelstrom of mysterious energies. His explorations of the darker realms of the spirit evoke states of emotional turmoil, spiritual hunger and troubled passion. Weaving together history, mythology and cryptic symbolism in a misty dreamscape where twilight is ever at hand and the bounds of gravity seem optional, he describes an ethereal mythos that is somehow deeply personal and disquietingly universal at the same time. " Amanda Erlanson
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SOLO
Verso (2014)
Thinkspace Gallery
Los Angeles
USA
Yore (2011)
Thinkspace Gallery
Los Angeles
USA
III (2010)
Thinkspace Gallery
Los Angeles
USA
Inner Myth (2009)
Thinkspace Gallery
Los Angeles
USA
GROUP
The Gilded Age (2015)
Aaron Horkey, Esao Andrews and João Ruas
Thinkspace Gallery
Los Angeles
USA
Paintguide (2015)
UNIT LDN
London
UK
Originals (2015)
MONDO
Austin
USA
Project M/4 (2014)
Urban Nation
Berlin
Germany
Go with the Flow (2012)
Bonelli Arte
Lucca
Italy
SE Invitational (2014)
Spoke Art
San Francisco
USA
ROJO ROJO (2012)
Miscelania Gallery
Barcelona
Spain
LAX/HKG (2012)
Above Second
Hong Kong
China
Lined in Lead II (2013)
Gallery Nucleus
Los Angeles
USA
Wild at Heart (2012)
Thinkspace Gallery
Los Angeles
USA
Go West (2009)
LeBasse Gallery Pop-Up
New York
USA
PUBLISHED
Wired
Playboy (USA)
The Sunday Times (UK)
The New Republic
VERTIGO / DC Comics
MONDO Posters
BOOKS
Yore
Exhibition Catalogue
52 Pages
2011
Minion I
Sketchbook Facsimile
44 Pages
2010
A selection of paintings by João Ruas
