Malu Ribeiro is a Brazilian born US-Swiss painter and art-maker who spent over 30 yrs of her life in the US, and lived in 8 other countries, speaks several languages. Her formal visual arts training began in Vigo, Spain, at the age of 16, attending assiduously the atelier of Argentinian surrealist, Alberto Castro Couso. At 19 she moved to the US obtaining a BFA in Theater at URI. After living in Paris for some years she returned and completed an MFA at Pratt Institute, NY. She participated in numerous juried events and group exhibitions, receiving the honor to exhibit of one of her mural printmaking installations at Pratt Institute's FA Dean’s office; was selected for a juried FA Symposium in NY, organised by the sculptor professor Jillian Jagger, with juror Donald Kuspit, and participation among others, by Laura Hopman, then, curator of the Drawing and Paper Arts Department at MOMA; she also participated in the NY/New England Talent annual national competition at the University of Massachusetts. earning honorable mention; and later, a merit award at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, at a juried international competition. Her work is in collections in Italy, UK, Brazil, US etc. More recently, she was part of an MA program at SBU in Art History and Criticism. She lives currently between Porto, PT and Brooklyn, NY, involved in international exhibitions.