Monika Bravo

MONIKA BRAVO, 1964

Has been invited to participate at the 56th Venice Biennale representing the Vatican City-State, at the Pavilion of the Holy See which commissioned her to do a new installation ARCHE-TYPES: The sound of the word is beyond sense. In 2015, she will be showing “URUMU” at the Museo de las Americas in Washington D.C & Centro Conde Duque in Madrid, Spain; originally installed at the Bard Graduate Center “Waterweavers” exhibit curated by Jose Roca and Alejandro Martin.  Her new piece “Studies for musical notations” is part of “Theorem” curated by Octavio Zaya at the MANA Contemporary Center in Jersey City NJ. Bravo will have a Solo show mid 2015 at Bis/oficina de proyectos curated by Juan Sebastian Ramirez in Cali, Colombia.

Recent solo shows include: “URUMU” curated by Beatriz Lopez at NC-arte, in Bogota, Colombia. LABORATORIUM Solo projects at ArtBO curated by Jose Roca, “Recent works” at MAM, Museum of Art, Montclair. NJ, “El objeto de la Percepción” at Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota and “Landscapes of Belief” at BYU Museum of Art (MOA) in Provo, UTAH all took part in 2013. 

Her work has been shown at Sternesen Museum, Oslo, Museo de Arte, Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Seoul International Biennial of New Media Art, SITE Santa Fe; Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Caja CAB de Burgos, Spain, El Museo del Barrio, and New Museum in NY. Her videos have been screened at MOMA, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, Museo di Arte Contemporaneo di Roma, the New York video festival at the Lincoln Center & the Americas Society in NY, L.A MOCA, Tate Britain, Museo Reina Sofia. 

Recently commissioned by Spear Capital to create a large installation of still and moving images covering two lobbies for their 315 Park Avenue building in NYC. Bravo was also commissioned by Landmarks Public Art Program to create a video installation for the University of Texas at Austin’s public art collection, also commissioned by Public Art for Public Schools at New York City School Construction Authority to create a series of 13 large glass panels for PS-IS 314. Recent commissions BREATHING_WALL a 58 monitor video strip commissioned by Los Angeles World Airports for the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX. Corporate commissions include IN-SITU a large photographic commission for Talisman Energy Inc’s main office in Bogota, Colombia, H20_ AKA, Boutique Hotels, Central Park NYC, 6 Projections cover a 44 feet of wall at the health club of moving images depicting aquatic sequences in a circular motion. Commissioned by Korman Communities, also commissioned by them, RHAPSODY_AKA Boutique Hotels, Times Square NYC, 3 LCD monitors at the lobby create a panoramic canvas showing the transient architecture and the dynamic of Times Square. HEXAGRAMS, commissioned for COMCAST 2 Light encasements 64 x 64” have been installed inside the walls of the 52nd and 53rd floors in Philadelphia, INTERVALS, Thirty 16 x16’’ photographic tiles illustrating the city of Newark are installed along a 34 feet wall commissioned for Kirpatrick, Lockhart & Gates Law firm Newark, NJ and LIFT_ME_UP_HK, Peninsula Hotel Hong Kong, an interactive video installation with sound, located at the elevator that goes to the SPA. 

She has been the recipient of Longwood Digital_Matrix Commission, Bronx Council on the Arts, the Art Scope Miami Emergent Artist awards in 2002 and 2005 and NYSCA’s Electronic Media & Film Award; She has lectured at Santa Fe Art Institute, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Lannan Foundation and Site Santa Fe among others; she has also been selected to participate in 2001‘s LMCC’s WTC World Views, the Santa Fe Art Institute & 2003 ART OMI Artist-in-Residency Programs. Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, Art Nexus, Art in America, The New Yorker.

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