Monika Bravo (born 1964) is a multi-disciplinary artist born in
Bogotá
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,
Colombia
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, who lives and works in
New York City
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, New York. Her work has been internationally exhibited, including at
Stenersen Museum
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in Oslo; Seoul's International Biennial of New Media Art;
Bank of the Republic
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in
Bogotá
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;
New Museum and
El Museo del Barrio
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in New York City and Site Santa Fe. Her work has received acclaim including a 1999 ''New York Times'' review which called her piece ''Synchronicity'' (from a group exhibition at
El Museo del Barrio
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) a "standout...small, beautifully blurry video images of boats plowing through New York Harbor..."
[The New York Times' "Art Review"](_blank)
URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
In 1982, Bravo left Bogotá, moving to Rome to study
fashion design
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, which she continued in Paris at
Esmod, before traveling to London to study photography. In 1994 she moved to New York where she is currently still based.
Career
Among Bravo's most well-known artworks is ''September 10, 2001, Uno Nunca Muere La Vispera'' dedicated to artist
Michael Richards
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who died in Tower One on the morning of the
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. In summer 2001 Bravo was an
artist-in-residence
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in the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
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's World Views program. As described in a 2006 book:
In 2010, Bravo was one of four winning artists in New York City's "urbancanvas" design competition with her work "Breathing Wall UC".
Most recently Bravo Represented the Vatican City in the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennial with her work "ARCHE-TYPES: The sound of the word is beyond sense". With this new work, she continues with her interest in coding/decoding information, the interest in the language of abstraction and an ongoing pursuit to decipher reality by means of perception. She created a parallel between the prologue of the Gospel of John In the Beginning..., (given to her by the curator of the Pavilion, Micol Forti), Malevich’s ideas behind Suprematism* and the definition of Zaum by the avant garde Poet Aleksei Kruchenykh**.
Among her most recent exhibitions are Waterweavers curated by José Roca and Alejandro Martín, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC 2015, Centro Conde Duque, Madrid 2015 and Bard Graduate Center, New York 2014; Theorem. You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself curated by Octavio Zaya, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City NJ 2015; Landscape of Belief (solo), Y Gallery, New York 2015; Affective Architectures, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami FL 2014; URUMU (solo), NC-Arte, Bogotá 2014; Common Ground: Earth, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul 2014.
Public art
* "Breathing_Wall_UC", installation, City Point, Brooklyn
* "AN INTERVAL OF TIME_UTA _ COMMISSION", Landmarks Public Art Program, University of Texas at Austin has commissioned a time-based installation for their public art collection
* "AKA_H2O, A panoramic video installation of flowing water and nature scenes by artist Monika Bravo, is projected across a 60-foot wall creating a visually stimulating ambiance.
Selected exhibitions
* "Urumu" (February 1 - March 29, 2014)
NC-arte Bogotá
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,
Colombia
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* "Monika Bravo: New Work" (September 22, 2013 – May 4, 2014),
Montclair Art Museum,
Montclair, New Jersey,
United States
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* "Solo Projects LABORATORIUM -ARTBO", Y GALLERY, curated by Jose Roca, (Oct. 17 2013, Bogota)
* "Monika Bravo: Landscape(s) of Belief" (September 6, 2013 – March 15, 2014),
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
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Provo, Utah
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United States
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* "The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art" (August 30 - November 4, 2012),
Stenersen Museum
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Stenersen Museum opened in 1994. It principally features exhibitions of contemporary art. The museum art exhibited originated with three private art co ...
,
Oslo
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,
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* "Paladar in Third Streaming" (October 24, 2012), Third Streaming,
New York City
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* "Tracing the Unseen Border" (April 21 - May 22, 2011), La Mama La Galleria,
New York City
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New York
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* "'Tawkin' New Yawk City Walls" (2005),
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
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* "Frequency + Repetition" (January 13 - February 26, 2005), Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery,
New York City
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* "Playing with Time" (September 28, 2002 – January 25, 2003),
SITE Santa Fe
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* "A_Maze" (April 26 - May 25, 2002), De Chiara Gallery,
New York City
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* "World Views: Open Studio Exhibition" (December 1, 2001 – January 13, 2002),
New Museum,
New York City
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Exhibition description on the New Museum's website
URL accessed on 1 February 2014.
* "The S-Files" (1999), El Museo del Barrio
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, New York City
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Publications
* Monika Bravo, Gabriel Cure, Juan Luque (ed.), ''Gabriel Cure Lemaitre La Arquitectura del Detalle'', Two Leaves Editions 2012
* Ricardo Cisneros, ''Between Two Worlds'', Two Leaves Editions 2011 (Design by Monika Bravo)
* Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Naomi Ben-Shahar, Monika Bravo, Patty Chang, ''Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Artist Residency 1997–2001'', LMCC 2004
References
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Living people
1964 births
20th-century Colombian women artists
21st-century Colombian women artists
Artists from Bogotá
Colombian sculptors