Lucas Aruda was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1983 and now lives and works in São Paulo. Known for his delicate and meditative paintings, his work has long focused on the “Deserto-Modelo” series, using memory as a medium to transform landscape into a continuous practice about time, repetition, and inner experience through repetitive processing of light, structure, and scale. In 2025, his work was exhibited at the Impressionist Gallery of Paris's Ouse Museum and a solo exhibition at the Nime Art House, France in the same year, and a site-specific solo exhibition in Kyoto's Daitokuji Wong Mei Hall in 2024. His work is now held by several major international art institutions, including the Berchos Collection in Berlin, the Pompidou Art Center in Paris, the Beyeler Foundation, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, the Pino Private Collection, the Shanghai Bund Museum, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.