Monika Bravo manipulates images, materials, and technology in order to create illusions of recognizable landscapes and/or environments that examine the notion of space-time as a measure of reality. The viewer is induced to connect by exploring, interacting, and at times focusing on an object, place or scene in a manner that is both meditative and investigative. Bravo’s is an art of seduction, illusion and introspection where subject and representation exchange and engage in conditions that allow the mind to travel from one reality to the next without the limit of boundaries. Her work seeks to actively engage the viewer as an integral participant in multi-textural art projects that resist the traditionally static state of art housed in museums.

Monika Bravo was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1964 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She studied fashion design in Rome and Paris and photography in London and New York. Bravo’s films and video installations have been shown in the U.S. at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Ocularis, Museo del Barrio, Lehman Gallery at Lehman College, Tyler Gallery at Temple University, and DeChiara/Stewart Gallery in New York. She has also exhibited internationally at Ciocca Arte Contemporanea in Milan, Sala RG in Caracas, Museo de las Americas in Puerto Rico, and AboutStudio/AboutCafe in Bangkok.