New York: Portuguese surrealist painter Santiago Ribeiro's art will be displayed openly at the Thomson Reuters and Nasdaq OMX Group at Times Square in New York City all year of 2018 and started in July 19 of 2017.  His work will be shown daily, randomly, alternately, for several minutes in each session, until December 31, 2018.

"As usual, every time, I do something different and innovative and the idea of exhibiting in Times Square, New York, shows how media and new technologies are a modern way to divulge our art," he said. declared Ribeiro.

Based on dreams and visions, his art has won critical acclaims from all over the world. Ribeiro's metaphorical surreal imagery surprises, breaks and triggers mixed feelings. His paintings are often described as "complex compositions illustrating profound concerns about modern society and its individual and collective behavior."

Santiago Ribeiro attended art classes at Escola Avelar Brotero and the Escola Superior de l'Education in Coimbra. He was born in Columbia. Santiago has organized and participated in numerous individual and collective art exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.

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Ribeiro's work has been featured at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, in the  Portuguese American Journal, in Digital Meets Culture, Pressenza fr, metroNews.ru , Pravda in Portuguese, Huffingtonpost, The Herald News, Associated Press and many other publications (link).

Its sponsors include the Bissaya Barreto Foundation, Câmara de Coimbra and the North American MagicCraftsman studio.

His work is represented in several private collections as well as in the contemporary art collection of the Machado de Castro National Museum and in the Bissaya Barreto Foundation in Coimbra, Portugal.

He has devoted his life to painting and promoting 21st century surrealist art, through exhibitions around the world in Berlin, Moscow, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mississippi, Warsaw, Nantes, Paris, Florence, Madrid , Granada, Barcelona, Lisbon, Belgrade, Monte Noire, Romania, Japan, Taiwan and Brazil.

Santiago Ribeiro is also a mentor of the international project 'Surréalism Now' where The City of Coimbra will open its doors to the International Surrealism Art Exhibition being held on November 17, 2018 in the Chiado Museum and Coimbra House of Culture in Portugal. International Surrealism Art Exhibition is the world's largest surrealist art exhibition of the 21st century with 107 surrealist artists from 45 countries on five continents.

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