_{Bruna Massadas came to understand abstraction after giving birth to her son, Rio. In those early postpartum months, she lived inside it: seeing the world in fragments, as if through the eyes of Van Gogh or Seurat. Abstraction wasn't an aesthetic choice; it was her reality. Her perception expanded. She was on the edge of the world as she knew it, and that edge is what she paint. Her relationship to painting and ceramics is rooted in the body: its ruptures, rhythms and transformations. These works are landscapes of the body, portals for becoming and letting go.

From 2018–2021 Massadas exhibited with Binder of Women, and from 2016–2018 she was a member of CTRL+SHFT collective. Recently her work has been exhibited at The Pit (Los Angeles), Bozomag (Los Angeles), My Pet Ram (New York), and Gallery 16 (San Francisco). She also exhibited in two-person shows with Raymie Iadevaia (2022, Bozomag) and Daniel Gibson (2017, Some.Time.Salon). Massadas earned her BFA at California State University, Fullerton (2009) and MFA at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California (2012). In 2025, she was awarded a Creative West Grant; she had a solo exhibition at de boer Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Massadas is represented by McClain Gallery; her first solo exhibition, The Edge of the World, with the gallery was in May 2025.}