Bruno Casiano is a Puerto Rican Artist based in Cleveland Ohio who combines traditional and contemporary art. He is on the one hand rooted in forms and themes inspired in traditional Puerto Rican silk screens, with characteristic and solid colors, imagery and shapes from his native Island, and on the other hand, he explores innovative collage and stenciling. In the end, despite the artistic departures, the flavor of Casiano’s work remains strongly Puerto Rican in essence.In Puerto Rico, he studied studio painting at the School of Fine Arts in Old San Juan in the early 1980s. Later on, he received further studies in illustration at The School of Design, Altos de Chavon in La Romana, Dominican Republic. In the mid-1990s, he completed a BA at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. For some years, he owned and curated major art shows at the Bruno Casiano Gallery on the West side of Cleveland. Currently, Bruno Casiano owns Logo Creative Studio, continues to be well known by most artists in the area.
Bruno Casiano es un artista puertorriqueño actualmente residiendo en Cleveland, Ohio, quien combina lo tradicional y contemporáneo en su arte. En una mano, sus formas y temas son inspiraciones puertorriqueñas con características de las técnicas de serigrafía y colores sólidos. Por otro lado, su arte explora el collage y el uso de patrones. Pero aún manteniendo en esencia las raíces culturales de Puerto Rico.Casiano estudió pintura de taller en la Escuela de Artes Plásticas bajo el Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico. En el 1986, es otorgada una beca completa para estudiar ilustración en la Escuela de Diseño Altos de Chavon, República Dominicana.En el 1996, completé un bachillerato en ilustración del Instituto de Arte de Cleveland. Hoy, Casiano maneja un estudio de arte y diseño "Logo Creative Studio" localizado en Cleveland, Ohio.
