Represented artist

Lives and works in Mexico City. 

Fernanda Brunet was born in the State of Mexico in 1963 and studied Visual Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda” (INBAL). After her university studies, she lived in New York for seven years between 1994 and 2001. For twenty-five years Brunet has created a pictorial language influenced by comics, nature, human body and sexuality. From there, she has wanted to make painting, graphics, yarn and ceramics a body, with a presence and a scale that the resulting work confronts our dimension, thus dislocating the perception we have of ourselves and of the space we surrounds us. She looks for her works to be a shock and stridency in the face of the bland and monotonous existence; the images of her works can be seen, touched and heard, ultimately perceived, although not always fully understood or named. She’s not looking for a definitive and resounding truth, instead, she is interested in finding an oblique view on that occasional and brief coincidence between the subject and the object, from a body to a landscape. A work that becomes a form of desire. 

Brunet has participated in solo exhibitions both in Mexico and abroad, including Fernanda Brunet, (SAENGER GALERÍA, CDMX, 2022); Everything is a lie, the stars never die (Collective Archive, Mexico City, 2020-2021), Waaaaaaah!! (Heart Ego, Monterrey, Mexico, 2018), Aaaaahhhhhh!!! (La Estación Gallery, Chihuahua, Mexico, 2017; Zugzwang (MURA, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2015), Animal, The Power of Nature (Puerta Roja, Damina Gallery, Hong Kong, 2011), Recent Work (Díaz Contemporary, Toronto, 2007), Happymania and Flower Power (Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey, 2006 and 2007), Splorsh (GDS Gallery, Costa Rica, 2005), Fight like a girl and BWOOMM (Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, 2004 and 2008), Fernanda Brunet: Recent Paintings (4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, 2003), Obra Reciente (Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 1997). Likewise, her work has been included in more than sixty collective exhibitions, among which stand out: On / Off. Seven approaches to painting (Saenger Galería, CDMX, 2021), Parameter 04 (Museo de la Ciudad de México, CDMX, 2021-2022), Environmental Reflections (Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2021 ), Bella y Terca: 9 argumentos sobre la pintura (Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de México, 2010), Afectos diversos: género en flux (Museo del Chopo, Ciudad de México, 2010); The Presence: Latin American Art in the United States(Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, 2007); Axis México: Common Objects and Cosmopolitan Actions (San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, 2002), The S Files (Museo del Barrio, New York, 2000), Erógena (Stedelijk Museum, Belgium, 2000). 

In 2003 she obtained the Painting Acquisition Award at the VI Monterrey FEMSA Bien- nial, and Honorable Mentions at the 4th Lumen Art Biennial in 2021; First National Biennial of Visual Arts of Yucatan in 2002 and at the X Rufino Tamayo Biennial in 2000. 

Her work is part of important private and institutional collections, such as the Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles; San Diego Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Jumex Collection Foundation; Peter Stuyvesant Foundation; Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, FEMSA Collection, Ashida Cueto Archive Collection, ESPAC Collection and S+A Collection, among others.