Fernanda Brunet
b. 1964, Mexico City · lives and works in Mexico City
Fernanda Brunet has developed a painting language of her own, drawn from comics, nature, the human body and sexuality. Working across painting, printmaking, textiles and ceramics, she builds vivid, large-scale compositions designed to pull the viewer out of everyday monotony.
She trained at La Esmeralda (INBAL) and the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, and at the Art Students League of New York. Her work has been shown at the Museo de Arte Moderno and Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, El Museo del Barrio in New York, the San Diego Museum of Art, Art Basel Miami Beach and ARCO Madrid, with solo exhibitions across Mexico, the United States, Colombia, Peru, Spain and Hong Kong.
She is represented in the United States by Front Row.
Paintings
Tondos
Works on paper
Textile & mixed media
Career highlights
Education
- Licenciatura en Artes Visuales, Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” (INBAL), Mexico City
- Ceramics, Academia de San Carlos, UNAM, Mexico City
- Art Students League of New York (1994–2001)
Selected solo exhibitions
- Una forma del deseo — Galería Ramón Alva de la Canal, Xalapa (2024–2025)
- Swoop! Romper la secuencia — Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro (2024)
- WOW! — Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia (2023)
- Pinta PArC — Casa Prado, Lima (2023)
- Fuego — Saenger Galería, Mexico City (2022)
- WOW! — LGM Galería, Bogotá (2022)
- Zugzwang — Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara (2015)
- My Demons — Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York (2011)
- Animal. The Power of Nature — Puerta Roja, Hong Kong (2011)
- Pow! — Galería Paupa, San Sebastián (2006)
Selected group exhibitions
- Parámetro 04 — Museo de la Ciudad de México (2021–2022)
- Environmental Reflections — Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu (2021)
- Bella y terca — Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (2011)
- Latitudes — Museo Nacional de la República, Brasília (2009)
- La presencia — Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach (2007)
- Art Basel Miami Beach — Ramis Barquet Gallery (2004, 2006)
- XIII Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo — Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2006)
- Axis Mexico — San Diego Museum of Art (2002)
- The S Files — El Museo del Barrio, New York (2000)
Awards & recognition
- Honorable Mention, 4th Bienal Arte Lumen, Mexico City (2021)
- Sistema Nacional de Creadores, FONCA (2016–2018; 2003–2005)
- Acquisition Prize, VI Bienal Monterrey-FEMSA (2003)
- Honorable Mention, I Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales, Yucatán (2002)
- Honorable Mention, X Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2000)