Bruno Casiano

Bruno Casiano is a Puerto Rican artist based in Cleveland Ohio who combines traditional and contemporary art. Born in Gary, Indiana, the son of a steelworker, Bruno’s family moved back to their hometown, Juana Diaz, a coastal rural community in Puerto Rico, when he was 10 years old. Young Casiano developed an interest in art awakened by these rural surroundings and the awareness of living on an Island, which made a great impression on him. In his work, regardless of the technique he chooses, from a traditional perspective he emulates the look and feel of serigraphy, which is an important aspect of Puerto Rican Arts and Craft traditions. In addition, the imagery of mountains, mangos, ceiba trees, caves, leaves, lizards, branches, and water, colors, and forms displayed in high contrast are common themes in Casiano’s work.

In the early 1980s, he studied studio painting at the School of Fine Arts in Old San Juan, Directed by the Institute of Culture. In 1986, he received a full scholarship to study illustration at the School of Design, (Parson NY Affiliated) Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic, and in 1996 he received a Bachelor’s Degree at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. In 2021, he opened the Bruno Casiano Gallery and curated an array of important shows displaying the works of local and international artists. Recently, in 2023, he had a solo show at Moca (Contemporary Museum of Art Cleveland) composed of eleven large mix-medium paintings