Brus Rubio
Brus Rubio Churay (1983), is an Indigenous contemporary artist and activist member of the Murui and Bora Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. He was born in the community of Pucaurquillo, in the Ampiyacu river basin. Introduced to the arts by his father, himself a painter and an indigenous community leader, Rubio shed light on the mythology, history and culture of the Murui. Rubio’s art practice like that of his father is deeply connected to his educational and environmental work in his community. A self-taught painter, he began to paint on llanchama (tree bark) with natural dyes. Later Brus built a workshop and a painting studio on the banks of the Ampiyacu River where he worked and gave classes to children in order to preserve the traditional knowledge of his community. Rubio’s works are in the collection of Lima Art Museum and important private collections in Peru. He has exhibited widely in Latin America. Throughout his career, his work has focused on the wisdom of his Amazonian homeland and its indigenous traditions, and has cemented him as one of the most important contemporary Amazonian Indigenous artists of his generation.