Michael De Brito

Teaches at One River School

Michael De Brito received his degree from Parsons School of Design and did postgraduate work at New York Academy of Art. Since 2004, he has been awarded Best of Show from the Audubon Artist Annual Exhibition as well as the Allied Artists of America 92nd Annual Exhibition. A Pollack-Krasner Grant recipient, De Brito has had two one-man exhibitions with the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York and a two-man show at the Galeria Graça Brandao Lisbon, Portugal. His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London and at the Presidential Museum in Lisbon. His work is in the collections of the Nevada Museum of Art and the Tribunal Constitucional in Lisbon, Portugal.

De Brito has taught beginner, intermediate and advanced painting classes at the Art Garage and taught a two week teen summer intensive at StudioKidsArt in Montclair NJ. He was invited to be a visiting artist at Parsons the New School for Design and is excited at the new teaching opportunities at One River School.