Caio Fonseca, American, born 1959, was raised in New York City. For Caio, it has been a life immersed in arts and culture. Fonseca is the scion of a prominent New York clan; his Father was the acclaimed Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca, a student of pioneer modernist Joaquin Torres-Garcia, and his mother, Elizabeth – a daughter of former Welch’s Grape Juice co-owner Jacob Kaplan, is also a painter. In 1978 he went to Barcelona where he studied and painted until 1983.  He moved to Pietrasanta (Lucca) in 1985 where he worked until 1989.  After two years in Paris, he returned to New York and now divides his time between Pietrasanta and his studio in Manhattan on East Fifth Street.  His works are held in numerous public and private collections in Europe and the United States including the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian institution.