BIO

Relationships shape the ways we inhabit the world.

Brenda R. Fernández is a Mexican-Spanish visual  artist and researcher based in Mexico City whose practice investigates the relationship between memory, experience, materiality, and human relationships. Her professional trajectory spans more than three decades, with an artistic practice that began in painting and has progressively expanded into sculpture, textiles, structures, installation, and spatial practices. Her work explores how experience becomes embodied in matter and how materials can retain traces of time, use, relationship, and memory.

Alongside her artistic practice, Fernández has developed more than twenty-five years of professional experience in social development, community development, education, social and financial inclusion, and local development. She has led interdisciplinary projects and collaborated with public institutions, NGOs, universities, civil society organizations, and multidisciplinary teams across Mexico. This sustained engagement with communities, territories, institutions, and systems has progressively converged with her artistic practice, informing the way she observes, researches, and translates collective experience into material inquiry.

Fernández studied Art at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City and pursued advanced studies with Mexican master Luis Nishizawa. She holds a Master's Degree in Social Responsibility from Universidad Anáhuac. Her formation across art and social responsibility provides a distinctive framework for her practice, connecting observation, relationship, collective experience, and material transformation.

Her work has been presented in museums, institutional spaces, galleries, and international art fairs across Europe, the United States, Latin America, and Asia. Selected institutional presentations include Brain Cake at the Gaudí Room, La Pedrera, Barcelona (2022); Il Canto delle Sirene at Museo Luigi Bellini, Florence (2023); Beyond Borders at Museum Europeu d'Art Modern (MEAM), Barcelona (2024); Biennale of Women in Art at Chelsea Old Town Hall, London (2024); Le Muse Incantatrici at Museo del Mar, Santa Pola (2024); and Onde e Stelle – Viaggio Senza Confini tra Mare e Universo at Museo Navale di Imperia, Italy (2024). Her institutional trajectory also includes a group exhibition at MAMAG Modern Art Museum, Vienna (2019–2020).

Her current long-term research project, The Persistence of Matter, represents a new international phase of this ongoing investigation. The project examines how relationships take form, become experience, and persist through matter. Beginning with painting, the research extends into natural pigments, sedimentation, textiles, structures, suspended bodies, installation, and spatial experience. Through this expanded material language, Fernández investigates matter as a carrier of relationship, experience, memory, and transformation.