(Estado de México, 1963) is a visual artist who lives and works in Mexico City. She earned her degree in Visual Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” (INBAL) and continued her training in the painting workshop of maestro Gilberto Aceves Navarro.
Since the 1990s, she has developed a pictorial practice defined by vibrant color palettes, dynamic compositions, and a constant tension between abstraction, ornamentation, and figuration. Her work engages with the aesthetics of comics, digital graphics, and pop iconography, constructing a highly personal visual language that moves fluidly between emotional, sensual, and explosive registers.
She has held more than thirty solo exhibitions in museums and galleries across Mexico, the United States, Canada, Colombia, Peru, Hong Kong, and Spain. Notable recent shows include WOW! (presented across multiple venues in Colombia between 2022 and 2023), Swoop! Break the Sequence (2024, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro), and A Form of Desire (2025, Galería Ramón Alva de la Canal, Veracruz). Her work has also been featured in major group exhibitions such as Parámetro 04 (Museo de la Ciudad de México), Art for Art’s Sake (Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas), The S Files (El Museo del Barrio, New York), Axis Mexico (San Diego Museum of Art), and several editions of the Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial.
She has been awarded Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (FONCA) fellowship three times (2003–2005, 2016–2018, and 2025–2028), and has received honorable mentions at the X and XI Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennials, as well as the I National Visual Arts Biennial of Yucatán.
Her work is part of prominent public and private collections, including the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) in Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art, Fundación Jumex, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her career has also been documented in key publications such as OMR. Contemporary Art in (and from) Mexico: 1983–2015, Post Neo Mexicanisms, Fragmented Nature, and New Tendencies in Mexican Art (The 1990s).
Fernanda Brunet is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Mexican painting, known for her energetic visual language and a practice that embraces exuberance, intensity, and emotional clarity in times of uncertainty.
(Estado de México, 1963) is a visual artist who lives and works in Mexico City. She earned her degree in Visual Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” (INBAL) and continued her training in the painting workshop of maestro Gilberto Aceves Navarro.
Since the 1990s, she has developed a pictorial practice defined by vibrant color palettes, dynamic compositions, and a constant tension between abstraction, ornamentation, and figuration. Her work engages with the aesthetics of comics, digital graphics, and pop iconography, constructing a highly personal visual language that moves fluidly between emotional, sensual, and explosive registers.
She has held more than thirty solo exhibitions in museums and galleries across Mexico, the United States, Canada, Colombia, Peru, Hong Kong, and Spain. Notable recent shows include WOW! (presented across multiple venues in Colombia between 2022 and 2023), Swoop! Break the Sequence (2024, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro), and A Form of Desire (2025, Galería Ramón Alva de la Canal, Veracruz). Her work has also been featured in major group exhibitions such as Parámetro 04 (Museo de la Ciudad de México), Art for Art’s Sake (Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas), The S Files (El Museo del Barrio, New York), Axis Mexico (San Diego Museum of Art), and several editions of the Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial.
She has been awarded Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (FONCA) fellowship three times (2003–2005, 2016–2018, and 2025–2028), and has received honorable mentions at the X and XI Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennials, as well as the I National Visual Arts Biennial of Yucatán.
Her work is part of prominent public and private collections, including the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) in Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art, Fundación Jumex, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her career has also been documented in key publications such as OMR. Contemporary Art in (and from) Mexico: 1983–2015, Post Neo Mexicanisms, Fragmented Nature, and New Tendencies in Mexican Art (The 1990s).
Fernanda Brunet is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Mexican painting, known for her energetic visual language and a practice that embraces exuberance, intensity, and emotional clarity in times of uncertainty.