PROVENANCE. Collection of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Purchased directly from the artist's New York City Studio, 1996.

Born in New York 1959, Fonseca grew up in an artistic family. His father, Gonzalo Fonseca, was an eminent Latin American sculptor. Deeply tied to these roots, Fonseca left his formal education from Brown University after his freshman year to study painting in Barcelona, Spain with the artist Augusto Torres. During this period, Fonseca devoted himself to studying figurative painting until he moved in 1983 to Pietrasanta, a medieval Italian town on the coast of northern Tuscany which captured his heart. Caio stayed there until 1989, honing his distinct abstract style. After two years in Paris, Fonseca returned to Manhattan, New York. Since 1993, Fonseca divides his time between his two studios in Pietrasanta and downtown Manhattan. Consequently, each work is titled either Pietrasanta, Fifth or Tenth Street. Caio's artworks are held in numerous public collections including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian Institution, The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and many others.