Rui Soares Costa (b.1981) has an academic and professional career at the intersection between art and science. He had an education as a visual artist and scientist. He studied Painting at Ar.Co, Lisbon while he completed his degree in Social Psychology. He subsequently completed his doctorate and post-doctorate between Portugal and the USA.
He has worked exclusively as a visual artist since 2013. He lives and works in Lisbon.
Rui Soares Costa's artistic work stems from his education as a researcher and his area of specialization. There are He is very interested in cognitive processes such as people's perception and memory, as well as cognitive neurosciences. Rui Soares Costa brings to his practice as an artist a set of knowledge, tools, methods and mechanisms from various disciplines, fields and domains. It combines them with influences from contemporary literature, music and cinema.