Rui Macedo is a Portuguese artist born in Évora in 1975. He has a degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in 1999 and obtained a Masters degree of Painting at the same University. He has received numerous Merit Scholarship in Painting and Visual Arts: Visual Arts Project - Painting installation Le récit spéculaire, Sines Arts Centre, the DRCA / Ministry of Culture. Lisbon in 2007; Art Project - Visual Arts, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for installation Caleidoscópio (Commissioner José Bragança de Miranda) at the Museu de Grão Vasco in Viseu, Portugal, in 2011; or Cieba Research Fellowship (Center Investigaçãoe estudos em Belas-Artes, secção Painting) / FCT (Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia)

Among his latest installations and exhibitions are: Nimium ne credere colori, Museu de Évora, curated by António Camões Gouveia, in 2010 or, in the same year, Puzzle this, Fundação D. Luís I, curated by Salvato Telles de Menezes, in Cascais , Portugal. In 2011 he presented La totalidad imposible en in the IVAM, whose curator was Consuelo Ciscar Casabán and Salvato Telles de Menezes; in 2012 De Pictura # 2, was presented at the Centrum SSSL in Pontedera, Italy, curated by Marco Abbondanza and, also in 2012, presented at the Museu de Grão Vasco, Caleidoscópio, curated by José Bragança de Miranda, in Viseu, Portugal .